Bamdad Bastani

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.

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.

Glowpoint, Inc. engages in the provision of video collaboration and network applications. Its products and services include the following: Tier One Help Desk Support; Resolve Fully Outsourced Support; Notify; Knowledge Based Training Programs; Managed Video Conferencing Services; JoinMyVideo Cloud Conferencing Services; Video Conferencing Suites; Webcasting and Streaming and Network Services. The company was founded in May 2000 and is headquartered in Denver, CO.

II-VI OptoElectronic Devices, Inc. operates as a designer and manufacturer of radio frequency semiconductor solutions for cellular wireless, WiFi, and infrastructure applications. It operates as a cost-effective manufacture of high performance gallium arsenide integrated circuits. The company's product portfolio includes power amplifiers, FEICs, FEMs, and line amplifiers. Its cellular wireless products enable mobile handsets, smartphones, tablets, notebooks, datacards, automotive, M2M, and industrial devices to access 3G and 4G wireless networks utilizing international standards, such as LTE, HSPA, WCDMA, EVDO, CDMA and WiMAX. The WiFi products enable wireless LAN connectivity for mobile and fixed-point devices, such as smartphones, tablets, notebooks, and base stations, optimizing the latest WiFi standards, including 802.11ac and 802.11n. Its infrastructure solutions include both wireless infra-structure and CATV products. Its wireless infrastructure power amplifiers enable 3G and 4G small-cell bastions, while its CATV products provide the critical link in CATV infrastructure network devices, as well as set-top boxes and cable modems. The company was founded by Ronald Rosenzweig, George Gilbert and Charles Huang in 1985 and is headquartered in Warren, NJ.