Usman Tahir

Quartics designs, develops and markets proprietary integrated circuits based on its patented Qvu™ architecture, which has established a new category of video processors, the system on a chip (SoC) video processing unit (VPU), designed specifically to deliver advanced digital video solutions, including superior video playback quality and advanced functionality enabling installation of custom software applications such as 2d to 3D video conversion, HD video chat, gesture recognition and video search. Qvu™-enabled video processing solutions are available to OEM and ODM companies worldwide and have been adopted by some of the world's largest consumer electronics companies. Quartics' revolutionary Qvu™ architecture allows consumer electronics manufacturers to deliver an unsurpassed HD quality video experience previously not possible with existing video solutions. Quartics' Qvu™ technology is poised to become the industry standard for next-generation video processing for personal computers, HDTVs, set-top boxes and other video-enabled consumer electronic devices. Quartics is a fabless semiconductor company located in Irvine, CA, with offices in India, China and Taiwan. Quartics was formed in 2003 to focus on a programmable semiconductor architecture for high-performance video processing, with the aim of overcoming the significant challenges of modern digital video processing.

Snom Technology GmbH develops and manufacturers voice-over-IP telephones. Its products include office mobility, desk phones, conferencing, networking, and headsets. The firm solutions include Microsoft Lync, ESTOS Procall and 3CX. It serves manufacturing, wholesale and distribution, retail, professional services, legal practice, transportation and delivery, education, government, real estate, operator solutions, and secure communications industries. The company was founded by Christian Stredicke in 1996 and is headquartered in Berlin, Germany.