Achilleas Veziris

Volterra Semiconductor Corp. designs, develops and markets proprietary analog and mixed-signal power management semiconductors for the computing, storage, networking and consumer markets. Its products includes integrated voltage regulator semiconductors, integrated power protection and distribution semiconductors and scalable voltage regulator semiconductor chipsets that transform, regulate, deliver and monitor the power consumed by electronic systems. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers, original design manufacturers, contract equipment manufacturers and merchant power supply manufacturers. Volterra Semiconductor was founded by Craig Teuscher, David B. Lidsky, Anthony Stratakos and Marco Zuniga in August 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

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.

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.

Part of Texas Instruments Incorporated, Cyrix Corp is a company that makes personal computer microprocessors. The company is based in Richardson, TX. Cyrix was acquired by National Semiconductor Corp., part of Texas Instruments Incorporated from September 23, 2011 on November 17, 1997 for $525.70 million.