Michael Bächle

Virage Logic Corp. is a technology and market provider in advanced embedded memory intellectual property (IP) for the design of complex integrated circuits. It work on semiconductor IP platforms comprising embedded memory, standard cells, and I/Os primarily for the consumer, communications and networking, handheld and portable, and computer and graphics markets. The company's quality efforts are validated in its Silicon Characterization lab which ensures quality, reliable IP across a range of foundries and process technologies. The company was founded on 1996 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Memoir Systems LLC provides algorithmic memory technology that increases the performance of existing memory macros. Its product include Renaissance 2X, Renaissance 4X, Renaissance 10X, Renaissance for Datacom and Renaissance Memory Uptime. The company was founded in March 2009 by Sundar Vasudevan Iyer and Da Chuang and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Philips GmbH provides consumer electronic equipment. Its products include domestic appliances, personal care, home entertainment networks and mobile infotainment products. It also provides medical systems like diagnostic imaging systems, customer services and clinical solutions. The company was founded in 1926 and is headquartered in Hamburg, Germany.

OSRAM GmbH develops and manufactures lamps and lighting systems. Its products include light-emitting diode systems, luminaires, electronic control gears, and lamps. The product applications include indoor and outdoor lighting, light management systems, vehicle and bicycle lighting, as well as specialty lighting. The company was founded in 1906 and is headquartered in Munich, Germany.

Part of STMicroelectronics NV, Waferscale Integration, Inc. develops programmable system devices. The company is based in Fremont, CA. Waferscale Integration was acquired by STMicroelectronics NV on July 28, 2000 for $68 million.

OSRAM Opto Semiconductors GmbH & Co. manufactures optoelectronic semiconductor components for the lighting, sensor and visualization sectors. The company supplies products and system solutions for illumination, visualization and sensing. OSRAM Opto Semiconductors was founded in 1999 and is headquartered in Regensburg, Germany.

Novaled GmbH designs and develops organic light-emitting diode technologies. Its products include organic materials, OLED display materials, OLED lighting materials and organic photovoltaic materials. The company was founded by Karl Leo, Jan Blochwitz-Nimoth, Martin Pfeiffer and Jorg Amelung in 2001 and is headquartered in Dresden, Germany.

MIG Verwaltungs AG is a private equity investment firm headquartered in Munich, Germany. It was founded in 2004 by entrepreneurs and financial institutions, to follow up on the success of the venture capital investment vehicles Global Chance Fund and Global Asset Fund, with which MIG's management had been involved.

BIOCRATES Life Sciences AG operates as a research and technology. It provides metabolic phenotyping services. The firm products are absoluteIDQ p150 kit, p180 kit, sterio17 kit, steroid reagents, biocrates bile acids kit, and steroid kit. The company was founded by Gunther Bonn, Adelbert Roscher, and Hartmut Glossmann in 2002 and is headquartered in Innsbruck, Austria.

Com Nat Conseil du Commerce Exterieur Fra engages in consulting, promotion of France for international investments, training young people internationally and sponsoring companies. The company was founded in 1898 and is headquartered in Paris, France.

Aledia SAS develops and manufactures light-emitting diodes. Its products are based on 3D architecture using gallium-nitride-on-silicon microwires. The firm's technology uses silicon wafers and existing complementary metal-oxide semiconductor wafer-fabrication processes and tools, enabling production of LED chips. The company was founded by Giorgio Anania, Philippe Gilet, and Xavier Hugon in 2011 and is headquartered in Grenoble, France.

Paradromics, Inc. engages in the development of high-bandwidth neural interfaces for prosthetic therapies. It focuses on studying implantable system that can be used for practical healthcare applications by increasing data rate, portability, and durability. The company was founded by Matt Angle in 2015 and is headquartered in Austin, TX.

Silicon Cloud International Pte Ltd. provides secure and private cloud computing infrastructure for scientific and engineering applications. It offers turnkey integrated circuit (IC) design infrastructure that comprises semiconductor process technologies/process design kits, and IC design training packages. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Singapore.

Ferroelectric Memory GmbH (FMC) is a German company that has developed advanced ferroelectric hafnium oxide memory technology for non-volatile memory in future electronics and computing innovation. The company is based in Dresden, Germany. FMC's ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FEFET) and capacitor (FECAP) technology is fast, low-power, scalable, and has high endurance with decades of data retention, suitable for a broad range of AI, IoT, edge, data center, and embedded applications. The company was founded in 2016 by Marko Noack, Wolfram Drescher, Stefan Mueller, Menno Mennenga, and is currently working with major semiconductor companies for its embedded and stand-alone memory solution. The CEO is Ali Pourkeramati.