CEO Interviews

Dr. Ron Black CEO, Imagination Technologies You’ve been with Imagination for just over three months, what is your vision for Imagination going forward? Imagination is an iconic company that led the way in low-power, high-performance graphics and parlayed a great customer experience in that area into a broader IP supplier relationship across connectivity and now neural network acceleration too. I must admit that the ups and downs in our customer’s strategies did distract us a bit, but I am happy to report that we are not only back on track, but things are exceeding my expectations. This is a company Read More

Why does Soitec have a unique position in the industry? Over the last few years, Soitec has built an organization capable of elevating itself in the value chain, learning what the end customer road map is and working with our customers’ customers to enable options and technical solutions. We are working with the entire ecosystem. We want to understand the issues that companies are trying to address in their roadmaps such as performance, power consumption and reliability. This will allow us to develop the materials and solutions that will be integrated into their final products. There is a strong interdependence Read More

Where did the idea of the Digital Micro Switch technology come from? Our lineage of innovation & entrepreneurship starts with the "Wizard of Menlo Park" himself, Thomas A. Edison. Born out of a decade-long effort at General Electric's Global Research Center, Menlo Micro is bringing to the market a series of technology innovations that have enabled us to reinvent one of the most essential and fundamental building blocks required for nearly every electronic system imaginable, the electronic switch. This was born from a vision to provide programmable, remotely controllable relays to substantially enhance energy management and electrification in a great Read More

Dr. Naveen Rao CEO & Co-founder, Nervana Systems I’d like to start with an introduction of yourself and your educational and professional background. I’ve been thinking about artificial intelligence for a long time. I used to read a lot of Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. It worked out in my favor that the big sci-fi trends in the mid 80’s/early 90’s seemed to all be centered around AI! This curiosity lead me to Duke University where I graduated with degrees in both computer science and electrical engineering with many classes in philosophy. During my undergrad years, I worked on neuromorphic circuits, which are Read More