Bruce W. Diamond

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.

TriQuint WJ, Inc. designs and manufactures broadband communications products. The firm provides radio frequency solutions serving multiple markets targeting wireless communications, RF identification, broadband cable, and defense and homeland security. The company was founded in 1957 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Zilog, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets micrologic semiconductor products for embedded control and communication applications worldwide. It provides semiconductor devices that its customers design into their end products. Its devices combine a microprocessor memory and input and output functions on a single device. The company was founded in 1974 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

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.

Sipex Corp. manufactures and sells analog integrated circuits. The firm's products include boost regulators, charge pumps, LED drivers, PWM controllers, multi protocols, USB, advanced power control and photo detector IC. The company was founded in 1983 and is located in Milpitas, CA.

Discera, Inc is a timing and clock oscillator firm utilized proprietary MEMS (micro-electrical mechanical system) resonator and packaging processes which offered the lowest power oscillators on the market. The company was founded in 2001 and was headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Soundskrit develops velocity-based directional microphone to improve speech recognition and sound recording in smart devices. The company was founded by Sahil K. Gupta, Stephane Leahy and Iman Moazzen in 2017 and is headquartered in Montreal, Canada.