Javed S. Patel

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.

Applied Micro Circuits Corp. Canada designs, develops, and supplies fabless semiconductor products. The company supplies physical layer ICs for the 10Gbs data and storage networking markets. It has offices in Ottawa, Ontario, and San Jose. The firm has distributors and representatives in Canada, the USA, France, Italy, China, Japan, and Taiwan. It was founded in April 2000 and is headquartered in Ottawa, Canada.

Sierra Monolithics, Inc. manufactures microwave modules and integrated circuits. It offers RFICs and Modules for wireless, wire line, and military applications. The firm serves the aerospace and telecommunication industries. The company was founded by Charles E. Harper, David A. Rowe and Binneg Y. Lao in 1988 and is headquartered in Camarillo, CA.

Tropian, Inc. develops and manufactures multi-mode and multi-band components for wireless technology. The company's products are based on its patented polar impact technology, a digital non-linear, polar modulation platform that enables multi-mode capability in wireless handsets and base stations. It is a semiconductor company involved in the implementation of 1G (analog voice), 2G (digital voice), 2.5G and 3G (digital voice and data) wireless standards in a single RF chipset. Tropian was founded in 1996 and is headquartered in Cupertino, CA.

GridIron Systems enables to turn customer's performance-challenged IT environment into the fastest data serving infrastructure on the planet. The GridIron TurboCharger appliance, a combination of custom silicon and novel real-time analytics, boosts application performance and scalability by reducing the data access latency by up to 1,000 times without changing applications, database software, servers, storage, or storage networks. The GridIron TurboCharger enables faster application run times, better user experience due to improved responsiveness, maximized server utilization and increased storage capacity resulting in significantly lower TCO.