John Edmunds

Trident Microsystems, Inc. provides multimedia semiconductor solutions for the digital home entertainment market. The company designs, develops, and markets integrated circuits and related software for the process, display, and transmission of high quality audio, graphics, and images in home consumer electronics applications. These applications are digital TVs (DTV), PC and analog TVs, and set-top boxes. Its products include system-on-a-chip semiconductors. These provide completely integrated solutions for processing and optimizing video, audio, and computer graphic signals, in order to produce high-quality and realistic images and sound. The firm also produces frame rate converters, demodulators, audio decoder products, interface devices, and media processors. The company was founded in 1987 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Part of QUALCOMM, Inc., Oak Technology, Inc. designs and markets high performance integrated semiconductors. The private company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Oak Technology was acquired by Zoran Corp., part of QUALCOMM, Inc. from August 31, 2011 on August 11, 2003 for $401.81 million.

Zoran Corp. provides digital solutions in the digital entertainment and imaging market worldwide. It develops and markets integrated circuits (IC), IC cores, and embedded software for digital versatile disc (DVD) players and recorders, digital cameras, broadband receivers, professional and consumer video editing systems, digital speakers and audio systems, and applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television. The company was founded by Levy Gerzberg in 1981 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Inphi Corp. engages in the provision of analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions for the communications and computing markets. The Analog and mixed signal semiconductor solutions offers high signal integrity at data speeds while reducing system power consumption. The Semiconductor solutions comprises of solutions that address bandwidth bottlenecks in networks; maximize throughput and minimize latency in computing environments; and enable the rollout of next generation communications, datacenter and computing infrastructures. The company was founded by Loi Nguyen, Gopal Raghavan, Timothy D. Semones and Ashok Dhawan in November 2000 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

PricewaterhouseCoopers International Ltd. operates as an international association of accounting and consultancy firm. The company was founded on June 24, 1998 and is headquartered in London, the United Kingdom.

Mythic, Inc. develops neural network hardware platform that supports weight neural networks in a tiny chip package. The firm specializes in artificial intelligence, machine learning, computer vision and neural networks. The company was founded by Michael Henry and David Fick in 2012 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.