CISES Speaker
Thomas Xu
Thomas graduated with bachelor of science from Shanghai Fudan University and received his master from The University of New Mexico in microelectronics. He brings over 26 years of experience in IC design and manufacture, and more than 15 years in general management to his role at CEO of StarFive. Thomas spent 11 years at HP USA, where he participated in several microprocessor development projects, including PA-RISC and Itanium processor family. Thomas was the founder & CEO of Polaris Microsemi. He joined C-SKY Microsystems as VP of marketing and sales in charge of Shanghai branch. He also served as CEO of Brite Semiconductor.
Panellist for Discussion: Future of RISC-V: Bright or Still Murky?
StarFive Technology Co., Ltd.
StarFive was founded in 2018. It is the leader of RISC-V technology and ecosystem development in China, with complete and silicon-proven portfolio of RISC-V CPU IP series and platform-based software and hardware full stack chip solution. StarFive products are widely used in smart home appliances, smart monitoring, industrial robots, traffic management, intelligent logistics, wearable devices, solid-state storage, network communications and edge computing, etc.
General Email:
Website: starfivetech.com
General No: 021-50478300
Mustafa Pinarbasi is the CTO and Sr. Vice President of Magnetics Technology at Spin Memory (Previously Spin Transfer Technologies). Before joining Spin Memory in 2013, Dr. Pinarbasi was a CTO and SVP of Technology Development at SoloPower, Advanced Technology Department Manager at Hitachi GST and Distinguished Engineer at IBM. His accomplishments at IBM include the development of the giant magneto-resistance sensor used in the first GMR-based hard disk drives (HDD) and pioneering the adoption of ion beam sputtering technology into the read sensor production. He led the development of tunneling magneto-resistance (TMR) read head processing at Hitachi GST and the development of flexible and light weight solar panels at SoloPower. Dr. Pinarbasi holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He is an inventor with over 200 U.S. patents, has authored or co-authored over 30 scientific publications and has received numerous industry awards.
Mr. Ning Chen used to work in the mobile communication industry in Japan for long years. After joined Panasonic in 2003, he has been engaged in the development of advanced sensor solutions for smart systems. He is now the Director of China Technology Center of Industrial Solutions Company.
Ron, who joined CNW in early 2013 after over a decade at DHL, sees himself as customer-centric. He is available day and night to listen and help customers realize that CNW is their most reliable special logistics partner. Ron believes in open communications and making it easy for them to approach CNW with urgent and emergency shipping challenges, no matter how complicated.</span>
Hermann Waltl is currently the executive sales and customer support director for EV Group (EVG). In this role, he is responsible for overseeing EVG’s worldwide sales operations across all of the company’s product lines and key markets including Asia Pacific, Europe and North America. Waltl joined EV Group in 2002 as a sales operations manager where he was responsible for all aspects of worldwide contract management and sales administration for three years.
Julio Coppo is currently serving the role of Vice President of Sales and Strategic Business Development for Nanotronics, a technology company that builds robotic, artificially intelligent industrial grade microscopes, including nSpec® and nSpec® 3D. nSpec®’s highly customizable software and hardware, enables these products to serve the semiconductor, material sciences, rubber, pharmaceutical and biotechnology industries. Julio joined Nanotronics in the Fall of 2016 and he oversees the global sales and customer outreach team.
Mario Morales is the program vice president of IDC’s enabling technologies, storage, and semiconductor research. He is responsible for in-depth analysis, evaluation of emerging markets and trends, forecasting, and research of major semiconductor industry segments such as embedded and intelligent systems, wireless, personal computing, networking and cloud infrastructure, automotive electronics, and consumer.