Jalil Shaikh

Atmel Corp. was manufactured microcontrollers, semiconductors and electronic circuits. Its products include microcontrollers, wireless connectivity, smart energy, drivers and sensors, and digital broadcast. The company was founded in December 1984 and was headquartered in San Jose, 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.

Broadcom Corp. designs, develops and supplies semiconductors for wired and wireless communications. The company was founded by Henry T. Nicholas III and Henry Samueli on August 16, 1991 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Silicon Image, Inc. provides video, audio and data connectivity solutions for the mobile, consumer electronics and personal computer markets. The firm operates its business in one segment, Semiconductors and IP solutions. Its connectivity solutions are deployed in mobile phones, tablets, DTVs, Blu-ray Disc players, audio-video receivers, digital cameras as well as desktop and notebook PCs. The company was founded on July 14, 1999 and is headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.

Uni-Pixel, Inc. develops and markets touch sensor films for the touch screen and flexible electronics markets. It markets its technologies for touch panel sensor and hard coat resin for cover glass replacement, and protective cover film applications under the XTouch and Diamond Guard brands. The firm also developed a hard coat resin that can be applied using film, spray, or inkjet coating methods for applications as protective cover films, a cover lens replacement, or a conformal hard coat for plastic components. The company was founded by Daniel K. Van Ostrand on February 17, 1998 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Zeevo, Inc. manufactures semiconductor devices which develops and markets system on chip solutions for the communication industry. It provides semiconductor solutions for Bluetooth wireless headset products. The company was founded by Anil Agarwal in September 1999 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA

Validity Sensors, Inc. provides intelligent fingerprint sensing solutions. The company was founded in November 2000 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Synerchip is a private fabless semiconductor company developing innovative high-speed digital interface technology for next-generation consumer electronics networks to securely and reliably send and receive video, audio and data simultaneously to maximize the home entertainment experience. With operations in Silicon Valley and Asia, the company strives to cost-effectively bring innovative technology to mass markets. Synerchip was started in 2005 by a management team experienced in high speed mixed signal interfaces, consumer electronics, networking and SOC design. This team brings a successful track record of bringing innovative technology to market as the semiconductors they created are used in hundreds of millions of products today. Synerchip is a DiiVA Promoter and founding member of the DiiVA Consortium.