Jack Guedj

Tensilica, Inc. is dedicated to helping its customers successfully to use its processor cores in its SOC designs. Its processor cores are often used in places engineering teams haven't considered using processors before - as a matter of fact, the company specialized in the hardest data-intensive applications. There are so many applications for Tensilica's processors that its customers have helped to become the fastest growing semiconductor IP supplier in 2008, according to the Gartner Group. The company makes some of the fastest, lowest power 32-bit RISC microprocessor cores on the market. Its Diamond Standard family of controllers uses its core technology to excel at control plane tasks. Tensilica is the recognized leader in customizable dataplane processors. Dataplane Processor Units (DPUs) consist of performance intensive DSP (audio, video, imaging, and baseband signal processing) and embedded RISC processing functions (security, networking, and deeply embedded control). The automated design tools behind all of Tensilica's application-specific processor cores enable rapid customization to meet specific data-plane performance targets. Tensilica's processors power top tier semiconductor companies, innovative start-ups, and system OEMs for high-volume products including mobile phones, consumer electronics devices (including portable media players, digital TV, and broadband set top boxes), computers, and storage, networking and communications equipment.

Thinnect, Inc. develops software technology. The firm solutions include commercial lighting and intelligent street lighting. Its technologies include IoT network service provider, patented wireless mesh and complete IoT offering. The company was founded by Jurgo Preden and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Numem Inc. is a leading provider of advanced soc compute in memory ip cores based on its patented nuram (mram), and soc ip cores and chiplets based on its patented, smartmem technologies. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company provides an excellent sram and flash alternative for soc designers/ architects with 2.5x smaller area and >20x lower leakage power than sram. Numem smartmem provides an end-to-end solution that is disrupting the semiconductor industry by enabling ultra-low power, high-performance integration of persistent memory for a variety of memory types including: numem, other mram, rram/reram, pcram, and embedded and standalone flash. Jack Guedj has been the CEOs since incorporation. The company was founded by Nilesh Gharia, Jack Guedj.

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.

Part of STMicroelectronics NV, Faroudja, Inc. designs, develops, and markets video image enhancement products for the home theater. The company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. The company was founded by Spencer F. Segura. Faroudja was acquired by Sage, Inc., part of STMicroelectronics NV from February 20, 2002 on June 07, 2000 for $54.38 million.

Tvia, Inc. was founded in 1993 to develop leading-edge streaming media component solutions for Internet and interactive set-top boxes and digital TV. It is a fables semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California and it focus on delivering high-quality display processors for the next generation digital TVs. The company heritage and expertise in television displays allows bringing optimized price performance and high-quality products to customers. It designs and produces innovative and cost-effective display processors for the expanding digital television market. Tvia is uniquely positioned to serve the advanced TV and emerging interactive display markets developing right now and it delivers quality performance and flexibility.

Magnum Semiconductor, Inc. provides silicon, modules, software and Internet protocol. It provides line of products, tools, and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain, from contribution and production through distribution over cable, satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming. The company was founded by Jack Guedj on June 30, 2005 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.