Jerry Rau

LSI Corp. designs, develops, and markets high-performance storage and networking semiconductors. Its products include custom and standard product integrated circuits that are used in disk drives, solid state drives, high-speed communications systems, computer servers, storage systems, and personal computers. The company was founded on November 6, 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Ponte Solutions, Inc. develops and markets unique model-based software products, that are used to predict and enable optimization of semiconductor yields at the design stage. It has offices in Mountain View-California, Grenoble-France, Tokyo-Japan and Yerevan-Armenia. The company was founded in 2002 and is located in Mountain View, CA.

Numetrics provides a unique suite of enterprise resource planning (ERP) software to semiconductor companies that enables unprecedented predictability of development plans, including schedules and role staffing, reliably measures project schedule risk, and benchmarks development performance against the industry's best-in-class. In use by seven of the top 12 semiconductor companies, the solution leverages Numeric's patented IC design complexity calculation engine, which is calibrated with statistical data from more than 1,500 benchmarked chip projects compiled from more than 40 semiconductor companies. Numeric's NMX ERP™ solution enables superior project schedule estimation, risk analysis, resource planning, execution pipeline analysis and benchmarking. The company is headquartered at Cupertino, CA. NMX-ERP's Bottom Line Value: Projects finish on time, within budget and have competitive cycle times, all of which translates to higher revenue, profits and market share. Numeric's customers include major semiconductor and systems companies in North America, Europe and Asia.