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Inphi’s Technical Advisory Panel was formed to provide strategic counsel on technology, strategy and direction. The Technical Advisory Panel’s global experience and success span a variety of key industries including communications, computing, networking and semiconductors, which gives Inphi a competitive advantage in world markets.
Hirokazu Hashimoto
Hirokazu Hashimoto is a well-recognized, highly respected leader in the semiconductor industry. His career spans more than 40 years in various management positions including CEO and President of NEC Electronics America, Executive Vice President of NEC Electronics Japan, President and CEO of Japan Foundry Planning Co. Ltd (with Toshiba, Hitachi, Renesas and MITI), an Adviser for Hitachi Corp., and most recently serving as Chairman of Magma KK, Magma’s Japanese subsidiary. He previously served on the board of NEC Electronics America, NEC Electronics Japan and TRON Association.
Dr. Kai Li
Kai Li is a Paul M. Wythes '55, P'86 and Marcia R. Wythes P'86 Professor at Princeton University, where he worked as a faculty member since 1986. Before joining Princeton University, he received his Ph.D. degree from Yale University. He is an expert in building parallel and distributed systems, deduplication storage systems, and data analysis and search for massive datasets. He was elected as ACM fellow and IEEE fellow in 1998 and 2011, respectively. In 2001, he co-founded Data Domain, Inc., serving in roles as the initial CEO, CTO and Chief Scientist.
Dr. Tsugio Makimoto
Dr. Tsugio Makimoto is a globally-recognized pioneer for his vision, leadership and outstanding contributions to the semiconductor industry. He is President of TechnoVision, a consulting firm, which he founded after retiring from Sony Corporation. Spending the majority of his career with Hitachi Ltd., Dr. Makimoto, in the late 1980s, discovered the cyclical nature of semiconductor industry which alternates directions between customization and standardization. This cycle was named as “Makimoto’s Wave” by Electronics Weekly in 1991. Dr. Makimoto is the recipient of Semico Research’s Bellwether Award and an IEEE Fellow. He served on the International Advisory Panel of National Science and Technology Board of Singapore. He was Chairman of Japan Institute of Electronics Packaging and a Member of Industry Advisory Board of UC Berkeley and he served on the Board of Directors for Chartered Semiconductor Manufacturing. He is presently Chairman of PDF Solutions Japan, Chairman of the Society of Semiconductor Industry Seniors and a member of the Board of Directors of Elpida Memory. A published author, he wrote “Living with the Chip” with David Manners as the co-writer and co-wrote “Digital Nomad” with David Manners.
John Scarisbrick
John Scarisbrick has broad experience in creating value in start-up, growth phase and top-tier semiconductor businesses having held executive management and independent director positions. He currently serves on the boards of ARM Holdings plc in Cambridge, United Kingdom, the world’s leading microprocessor intellectual property firm, and Innovative Silicon in Lausanne, Switzerland, the world leader in floating body effect memory technology. Scarisbrick is also the Executive Chairman of Netronome Systems, Inc., headquartered in Cranberry Township, Pennsylvania, the leading developer of network flow processors. He has served as the CEO of CSR plc and also worked at Texas Instruments (TI) for 25 years in Texas, France and England. As Senior Vice President at TI, Scarisbrick was responsible for all aspects of their $5 billion World Wide Application Specific Products chip business in Dallas, Texas – including ASIC, Broadband, Digital Signal Processor (DSP), LCD, SPARC and Wireless. He also served as President of Texas Instruments Europe, and led the team that created TI’s DSP business. He retired from TI in 2000.
Fred Weber
Fred Weber is an expert in computer and microprocessor architecture and design and an experienced executive. He currently serves on the board of directors of SeaMicro, an innovative IT startup developing revolutionary, extremely power efficient server computers, and Glasspoint Solar, a green energy startup developing solar power systems. Previously, Weber co-founded MetaRAM, a leader in the development of high-density memory modules, in 2005 where he served as President and CEO. Weber spent the bulk of his career at Nexgen and AMD helping to get real competition to the microprocessor market with products like the AMD Athlon and AMD Opteron, the first 64 bit x86 processor. At AMD, he also developed and promoted the strategy of “x86 everywhere” to drive x86 architecture processors beyond PCs into handheld portable devices, digital TVs, automobiles and all forms of computing platform. He was a member of the founding team of Kendall Square Research, where he participated in all aspects of hardware design including the development of CAD methodologies, the invention of the AllCache memory system, the architecture and design of the CPU and the multiprocessor verification environment. In the mid-1990s, Weber envisioned bringing the power of 64-bit x86-based computing to everyone.
Randy Wilhelm
Randy Wilhelm is a 30-year veteran of the semiconductor industry. He currently serves as the Senior Advisor to Micron Technologies. Prior to that, Wilhelm was with Intel for 25 years, where he held multiple executive positions including the General Manager of the Wireless Networking Group, the General Manager of the Clients Products Group, and the Vice President and General Manager of the NAND Memory Group. In 2009, Wilhelm led Intel’s NAND Flash organization to take the lead in NAND technology by delivering the world’s first 34nm NAND memory device. Following that, Intel made another major innovation by delivering the fastest and most cost effective Solid State Drive in the world based on 34nm NAND technology. Under Wilhelm’s guidance, Intel is now a leading supplier of client and enterprise Solid State Drives and the unquestioned leader in NAND silicon technology.
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