Steven R. Bakos

Exar Corp. engages in the design, development, and sale of analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits; as well as advanced sub-system solutions for the industrial and embedded systems, high-end consumer, and infrastructure markets. Its product portfolio includes power management, connectivity, and communications products; as well as data and storage products for network security and storage optimization solutions. The company was founded in April 1971 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Linear Technology Corp. engaged in designing, manufacturing, and selling analog integrated circuits. The company was founded by Robert C. Dobkin, Robert Widlar, and Robert H. Swanson in September 1981 and was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

National Semiconductor Corp. develops and manufactures analog intensive and mixed-signal integrated circuits. The firm’s product portfolio includes power management circuits, audio and operational amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, lighting and display circuits, adaptive voltage scaling circuits, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company was founded by Arie Brish on June 29, 1959 and is headquartered in Los Angeles, CA.

Xicor, Inc., a California corporation, was founded in 1978. It is a manufacturer of nonvolatile semiconductor devices including EEPROMs, NOVRAMs, EEPOT nonvolatile digital potentiometers and microperipheral. It also processes transitioning of product development effort to the area of high performance analog mixed-signal integrated circuits

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Intersil Corp. designs and manufactures analog semiconductors. The company offers a portfolio of application specific standard products and general purpose proprietary products for the industrial, computing, consumer, and communications markets. The company was founded in August 1999 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Active-Semi, Inc. develops integrated circuit architects. It is emerging power management IC and intelligent digital motor drive IC markets. The company's portfolio of analog and mixed signal SoCs (systems-on-chips) are scalable core platforms used in charging, powering and embedded digital control systems for end applications such as industrial, commercial and consumer equipment. The firm offers power application microcontrollers, DC/DC, AC/DC, and PMU that significantly reduces solution size and cost while improving system-level reliability. The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Allen, TX.