John Bourgoin

Silicon Graphics, Inc., is a leader in high-performance computing, visualization and storage. SGI's vision is to provide technology that enables the most significant scientific and creative breakthroughs of the 21st century. Whether it's sharing images to aid in brain surgery, finding oil more efficiently, studying global climate, providing technologies for homeland security and defense or enabling the transition from analog to digital broadcasting, SGI is dedicated to addressing the next class of challenges for scientific, engineering and creative users

Micrel, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures and markets analog power integrated circuits (ICs), mixed-signal ICs and digital ICs. It also manufactures custom analog and mixed-signal circuits and provides wafer foundry services for customers that produce electronic systems for communications, consumer and military applications. The company operates through one segment: Semiconductor Products. It also offers radio frequency data communication products. Micrel was founded by Raymond D. Zinn in July 1978 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

MIPS Technologies, Inc. engages in the provision of intellectual property processor architectures and cores. Its products include Warrior M-Class, Warrior I-Class, Warrior-P Class, AptiveGeneration, and microMIPS ISA. The company was founded by John L. Hennessy in 1984 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.

Stream Processors, Inc. was engaged in the developing and manufacturing of fabless semiconductors. It also delivered stream processing architecture that helped consumer and industrial companies. The company was founded by Ujval J. Kapasi, William James Dally, Ted Williams and Brucek Khailany in 2004 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA.