Atul P. Shingal

Cypress Semiconductor Corp. engages in designing, development, manufacturing, and marketing of a broad range of high-performance solutions for embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer devices. Its programmable systems-on-chip, general-purpose microcontrollers, analog ICs, wireless and USB-C based connectivity solutions and memories help engineers design differentiated products. The firm operates through the following segments: The Microcontroller and Connectivity Division (MCD), and the Memory Products Division (MPD). The company was founded by Thurman John Rodgers in December 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, 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.

Virata Corporation. develops, manufactures and provides communications processors and DSL chips along with integrated software modules to manufacturers of equipment utilizing digital subscriber line and broadband wireless technologies

SiRF Technology Holdings, Inc. develops and markets multifunction location platforms based on semiconductor and software products that are designed to enable location-awareness utilizing GPS and other location technologies, enhanced by wireless connectivity and multimedia capabilities, for high-volume mobile consumer devices and commercial applications. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in San Jose, 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.

The Tata Group operates as holding company with interests in hospitality, automotive, engineering, energy, chemical, oil and gas. It operates through its operating companies such as Tata Steel, Tata Motors, Tata Consultancy Services, Tata Power, Tata Chemicals, Tata Global Beverages, Tata Teleservices, Titan, Tata Communications and Indian Hotels. The company was founded by Jamsetji Tata in 1868 and is headquartered in Mumbai, India.

Cavendish Kinetics, Inc. provides radio frequency tuning solutions for mobile devices in the wireless industry. It is a fabless supplier of tunable components for RF circuits used in cellular handsets, laptops, netbooks, tablets, and other consumer wireless devices. The firm offers tunable RF circuits, based on third-generation RF MEMS technology and its semiconductor processes, let users pack more performance into the same space. The company was founded by Charles Gordon Smith and Hermann M. Hauser in 1994 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.