Shiva Kumar Natarajan

TelCom Semiconductor, Inc. designs, develops, and markets high-performance linear and mixed-signal IC solutions.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. engages in the provision of silicon solutions for next-generation cloud infrastructure and data centers, as well as connectivity products for edge, metro and long haul communications equipment. Its products include the X-Gene ARM 64-bit Server on a Chip solution, or X-Gene, designed for cloud data center and enterprise applications. It offers a line of embedded computing products based on power architecture. The company's connectivity portion of base business provides high-speed, high-bandwidth, high-reliability communications products. Its connectivity products include framer or mapper devices for Optical Transport Network equipment and physical layer devices that transmit and receive signals in a very high-speed serial format. The company was founded in 1979 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, 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.

Ernst & Young LLP engages in the provision of accounting, assurance, tax, transaction, and advisory services. It specializes in the actuarial, analytics and big data, cyber security, accounting compliance and reporting, center for board matters, international financial reporting standards, country tax advisory, global trade, tax accounting, and climate change and sustainability. The company was founded in 1989 and is headquartered in New York, NY.

Open-Silicon, Inc. provides application integrated circuit solutions. It offers prototyping, software and validation, virtual prototyping, design, analog ICS and production handoffs solutions. The company was founded by Satya Gupta, Naveed Sherwani and Scott Houghton in 2003 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Tandem Computers Incorporated designs and manufactures fault-tolerant computer systems and networks for the on-line transaction processing market place. The company's systems are used in the banking, communications, manufacturing, business services, brokerage and securities, retail and wholesale distribution, healthcare and other industries. Its wholly-owned subsidiary, UB Networks, Inc., is a leasing supplier of network hardware and software products. Computer systems and networks products accounted for 79% of fiscal 1996 revenues and service and other, 21%. It was acquired by IBM in 1997 for 3 billion.