David W. Carroll

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.

Conexant Systems LLC provides semiconductor solutions for imaging, audio, embedded modem, and video surveillance applications. The company is headquartered in Irvine, CA.

Mindspeed Technologies, Inc. manufactures semiconductor solutions for network infrastructure applications. The firm offers communications convergence processing products that include ultra-low-power, multi-core digital signal processor system-on-chip for the fixed and mobile carrier infrastructure, residential and enterprise platforms. The company is headquartered in Lowell, MA.

Beceem Communications, Inc. manufactured semiconductors for the wireless broadband market. It specialized in the emerging 4G-WiMAX marketplace. The company was founded in October 2003 by Surendra Babu Mandava and Arogyaswami J. Paulraj and headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

ON Semiconductor Connectivity Solutions, Inc. engages in the design, development, and marketing of wireless communication solutions enabling wireless local area networking. It serves the retail, home networking, carrier and consumer electronics industries. The company was founded by Farrokh Farrokhi, Andrea Goldsmith, and Behrooz Rezvani on November 28, 2005 and is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ.