Gary Fischer

ESS Technology, Inc. engages in the design and marketing pf analog and audio devices for mobile, consumer, automotive, and professional audiophile systems. Its products include digital to analog converters, audio amplifiers, voltage regulators, and sound bar and audio system on chip. The company was founded by Forest S. Mozer in 1984 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Integrated Silicon Solution, Inc. is a semiconductor company, which designs, develops and markets integrated circuits for the automotive, communications, industrial, medical, and digital consumer industries. Its products include dynamic random access-memory (DRAM), mobile DRAM, static random-access memory, wafer level memory solutions, analog, and flash. The company was founded by Jimmy Shueh Mien Lee and Kong Yeu Han on October 27, 1988 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Pericom Semiconductor Corp. designs, manufactures and develops semiconductor interface integrated circuits. It specializes in integrated connectivity, advanced timing, and signal integrity solutions for the computing, communications, and consumer market segments. Pericom technology offers system design solutions to the challenges presented by high-bandwidth, high-speed serial protocols. The company designs and sells semiconductor chips that connect components inside products such as high-definition TVs, smart phones, notebooks, servers, networking and telecom products, and many other applications within the consumer, computing and communication markets. Its ICs, crystals and crystal oscillators are designed to connect, time and condition high speed serial signals like PCI Express, HDMI/DVI, DisplayPort, SATA/SAS, USB, Gigabit Ethernet and Fibre Channel. Pericom's product line includes SiliconConnect, SiliconSwitch, SiliconInterface and SiliconClock. The company was founded by Chi-Ming Hui and John Chi-Hung Hui in June 1990 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Soil & Topography Information, Inc. developed a technology for the creation of soil and topographic maps for agriculture. The company was founded in 2002 and was headquartered in Madison, WI.

eRide, Inc. develops and markets high sensitivity assisted global positioning system (AGPS) solutions for location based services. It offers software module implementing dead reckoning, long term compact satellite models, asset tracking, machine to machine applications, and communication protocols. The company was founded by N. Arthur Woo and Paul W. McBurney in 1999 and is headquartered in San Francisco, CA.