Rajesh Vashist

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Ikanos Communications, Inc. designs, develops, markets semiconductors and integrated firmware. It also develops and markets end-to-end products for the last mile and digital home, which enable carriers to offer enhanced triple play services including voice, video, and data. The company was founded by Behrooz Rezvani in 1999 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Samsung Semiconductor, Inc. manufactures semiconductors. It markets Samsung semiconductor product lines including its DRAM and SRAM memory chips, flash memory components, thin-film transistor liquid crystal display (TFT-LCD) panels and screens and system LSI products. The company was founded in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.