David Stewart

CriticalBlue Ltd. develops automated embedded system design solutions. The firm provides software analysis and optimization services to global blue chip semiconductor customers and OEMs in fast moving sectors such as smartphone, tablet, telecom and networking, and automotive vision systems. The company was founded by David Stewart, Ben Hounsel and Richard Taylor in 2002 and is headquartered in Edinburgh, the United Kingdom.

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.

The Group's principal activities are to provide system-level semiconductor solutions for electronic products and systems. The Group's operations are carried out through the following business segments: Communications, Computing and peripherals, Consumer electronics, Automotive and industrial, Multi-market IC's, Discrete, Optical and microwave devices and Other.

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.