Thomas Sparkman

Samplify Systems, Inc. is a provider of intellectual property solutions which solve data acquisition and data processing bottlenecks. Its Prism Compression addresses data acquisition bottlenecks in industrial, scientific, medical markets, while its APAX technology accelerates software applications which are performance-limited by I/O, storage, or memory bandwidth bottlenecks in the computing, consumer, and mobile device markets. It is a private company based in Silicon Valley, with backing from leading venture capitalists, Charles River Ventures and Formative Ventures and strategic partners Schlumberger, IDT, and Cosmo.

Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of linear and mixed-signal integrated circuits. Its products include integrated power circuits, amplifiers, data converters, analog filters, transceivers, expanders, level translators, broadband switches, powerline communications, microcontrollers, data loggers, solar energy, and automotive. The company was founded by Jack F. Gifford in 1983 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Integrated Device Technology, Inc. engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of semiconductor solutions for the communications, computing, consumer, automotive, and industrial end-markets. The company was founded by Chun Pang Chiu and Tsu-Wei Lee in 1980 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Spansion, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and supplies flash memory semiconductors. It offers flash memory and microcontrollers for infotainment, body and climate control systems, instrument clusters, and advanced driver assistance systems. The company was founded on June 30, 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Spin Memory, Inc. manufactures computer storage devices. It develops breakthrough technologies in both magnetics and CMOS circuits and architectures that bring STT-MRAM to the next generation. The company was founded by Andrew Kent and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.

Spin Transfer Technologies LLC develops orthogonal spin transfer magneto-resistive random access memory technology. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Fremont, CA.