Jon Stuart Castor

Adaptec, Inc. provides innovative data storage hardware and software solutions. It supplies technologies and applications supported by major storage and system OEMs, system integrators, system builders, and value-added resellers that deliver enabling technology and products to address many of the most critical applications in data storage. It delivers ASICs, host-bus adapters, value-oriented and high-performance SATA/SAS and SCSI RAID controllers, and storage software for IP storage area networks. The company was founded in 1991 and is headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

California Micro Devices Corp. engaged in the design and sale of application specific circuit protection devices and display electronic devices. Its products include electromagnetic interference filters with electrostatic discharge protection for mobile handsets for specific applications, including display interfaces, imager interfaces, speaker, headphone, high speed serial data interfaces, microphone interfaces, and smart card interfaces. The company was founded in 1980 and was headquartered in Milpitas, CA.

Part of QUALCOMM, Inc., Oak Technology, Inc. designs and markets high performance integrated semiconductors. The private company is based in Sunnyvale, CA. Oak Technology was acquired by Zoran Corp., part of QUALCOMM, Inc. from August 31, 2011 on August 11, 2003 for $401.81 million.

Zoran Corp. provides digital solutions in the digital entertainment and imaging market worldwide. It develops and markets integrated circuits (IC), IC cores, and embedded software for digital versatile disc (DVD) players and recorders, digital cameras, broadband receivers, professional and consumer video editing systems, digital speakers and audio systems, and applications that enable the delivery and display of digital video content through a set-top box or television. The company was founded by Levy Gerzberg in 1981 and is headquartered in San Diego, CA.

Genesis Microchip is a supplier of display image processors. Consumer video and DVD products, LCD TVs, HDTVs, Digital TVs, and LCD monitors all benefit from Genesis’s advanced and patented technology. Headquartered in Silicon Valley, California, the company also has sales, support and development centers in Toronto, Canada; Bangalore, India; Taipei, Taiwan; Seoul, Korea; Shenzen, China and Tokyo, Japan

Omneon, Inc. is a provider of digital content storage and processing systems used by media companies to enable efficient production and distribution of quality digital video and audio. The company develops, markets and sells a range of video servers, active storage systems and related software applications that media companies use to simultaneously ingest, process, store, manage and deliver digital media content formats. It changed its name from Omneon Video Networks, Inc. in December 2007. The company was founded in May 1998 by Lawrence R. Kaplan and Donald M. Craig and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

VisualOn, Inc. provides software based products. It offers software applications for the mobile handset market, enabling customers to experience a rich multimedia event via their mobile devices, without the need of expensive dedicated hardware. The company was founded by C. Y. Bill Lin and Yang Cai in 2003 and is headquartered in San Jose, CA.

Artimi, Inc. designs and manufactures semiconductor systems. It develops single chip solutions for bandwidth wireless connectivity based on ultra wideband (UWB) technologies. The company designs and manufactures ultra wide band semiconductor products and complete UWB systems. The company was founded by Richard Dellabaraca, Mark Moore and David Baker in 2002 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, CA.