Dr. Sivaram most recently was the Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Semiconductor, bringing to Matrix unrivaled experience in running a high-volume semiconductor manufacturing business. After receiving his Ph.D. from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Dr. Sivaram began a 14-year career at Intel, where he ended up serving as General Manager of the billion-dollar IC Procurement and Enabling Division, responsible for portions of Intel's chipset design, all external integrated circuit procurement, and production of Intel chips which were not manufactured in Intel fabs. In that position, Dr. Sivaram was known worldwide as the world's largest consumer of semiconductor foundry wafers. Dr. Sivaram authored the book Chemical Vapor Deposition: Thermal and Plasma Deposition of Electronic Materials (Van Nostrand Reinhold, 1995) that is used at many U.S. universities at the graduate level. He has published over fifty technical papers and also held positions as Research Scholar at Matsushita Electric in Japan, Technologist at SEMATECH, and Adjunct Faculty at San Jose State University. [ - ]

Dr. Sivaram most recently was the Chief Operating Officer of Matrix Semiconductor, bringing to... [ + ]