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We present you si100 2012. This is the 15th year that si100 companies are being selected and honored! si100 is an annual listing of the top 100 technology companies founded and managed by Indians in the U.S. The si100 not only represents the continuing rise and glory of Indian entrepreneurship in high-tech but also recognizes companies impacting the market place. A distinguished panel comprising accomplished Indian CEO's & CIO's of public companies, VC's, analysts, founders of other VC funded companies including siliconindia editorial board decided on the top 100 companies listed below. |
Top 5 Semiconductor companies
| Name | Founders | Founded | Description |
| Magnum Semiconductor Milpitas, CA magnumsemi.com |
Gopal Solanki President and CEO |
2003 | A provider of silicon, modules, software and IP for the professional broadcast infrastructure market. It provides products, tools and technologies for the entire video content creation and distribution chain over cable, Satellite and IPTV to Over-the-Top video streaming.Investors: Investor Growth Capital, August Capital, and Investcorp Technology Venture; Fund Raised: $20 Million |
| Memoir Systems Santa Clara, CA memoir-systems.com |
Sundar Iyern CTO |
2009 | A provider of memory technology that is delivered as Semiconductor Intellectual Property (SIP). It’s approach to memory design shortens the time required to develop new memories, and can increase the performance of existing memory macros by up to 10 times more Memory Operations Per Second (MOPS). Investors: Lightspeed Venture Partners ; Fund Raised:$5.1 Million |
| Quantance San Mateo, CA quantance.com |
Vikas Vinayak CEO |
2006 | A manufacturer of power supply technology for 4G mobile devices. It addresses the mobile wireless market by harvesting the transmit power and efficiency benefits achievable for 3G and 4G/LTE systems. Investors: TD Fund, Granite Ventures, InterWest Partners and DoCoMo Capital; Fund Raised: $11 Million |
| SmartPlay San Jose, CA smartplayin.com |
Pradeep Vajram CEO |
2008 | A design services company specializing in Digital, Analog, Wireless Software and System Design. |
| Spontey Sunnyvale, CA spontey.com |
Gajendra Prasad Singh President & CEO |
2004 | A fabless semiconductor company providing range of high value services in deep sub micron CMOS technology, high performance VLSI package design and high speed signaling. |