# Babu Mandava

> Babu Mandava is a semiconductor engineer, repeat founder and operating executive who now leads 3D Glass Solutions. After early design work in India, Zilog and Cirrus Logic, he co-founded Centillium and Beceem, helped carry the former to an IPO, sold the latter to Broadcom for approximately $316 million, led Broadcom's first LTE multimode baseband chipset effort, and later ran Cadence's IP group. At 3DGS, his focus has shifted to the glass substrates and three-dimensional packaging that connect RF, photonic and high-performance computing systems.

- **Role:** President and CEO at 3D Glass Solutions, Inc.
- **Organizations:** 3D Glass Solutions, Inc., Cadence Design Systems, Broadcom, Beceem Communications, Inc., Centillium Communications, Inc., Cirrus Logic, Zilog, Semiconductor Complex, India
- **Education:** Master of Technology in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science, Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur
- **Known for:** Co-founded Centillium Communications and helped lead the company to a public listing., Co-founded and led Beceem Communications, a contributor to IEEE 802.16e and the first Mobile WiMAX profile., Led Beceem through its approximately $316 million acquisition agreement with Broadcom in 2010.

## Career timeline

- **1983-1986** — Worked at Semiconductor Complex in India, designing products for telecom and defense applications.
- **1986-1994** — Held chip-design roles at Zilog and Cirrus Logic, including processor, microcontroller, DSP and modem-controller architecture work.
- **1994** — Co-founded Centillium Communications and served in engineering and general-management roles.
- **2000** — Centillium completed its initial public offering.
- **2003** — Co-founded Beceem Communications and became its CEO.
- **2010** — Broadcom agreed to acquire Beceem for approximately $316 million, net of cash assumed.
- **2011-2016** — Served as a Broadcom engineering vice president and led the team developing the company's first LTE multimode baseband chipset.
- **2017-2021** — Led Cadence Design Systems' IP Group as senior vice president and general manager.
- **2021-present** — Serves as president and CEO of 3D Glass Solutions.
- **2023** — 3D Glass Solutions closed a $30 million Series C to expand U.S. production capacity and its 3D heterogeneous-integration roadmap.
- **2026** — Participated in the groundbreaking of 3DGS's advanced glass semiconductor packaging unit in Odisha and in an Odisha-Intel-3DGS memorandum of understanding on glass-core substrate manufacturing.

## Achievements

- Co-founded Centillium Communications and helped lead the company to a public listing.
- Co-founded and led Beceem Communications, a contributor to IEEE 802.16e and the first Mobile WiMAX profile.
- Led Beceem through its approximately $316 million acquisition agreement with Broadcom in 2010.
- Led the team that developed Broadcom's first LTE multimode baseband chipset.
- Refocused Cadence's IP strategy and organization, which the company credited with year-over-year growth and key customer wins in 2017.
- Named on five U.S. patents and publications in design for testability and fault-tolerant processor design, according to a 2006 industry profile.
- Led 3D Glass Solutions through a $30 million Series C financing in 2023.

## Latest updates

- **2026-05** — The Government of Odisha, Intel and 3DGS signed a memorandum of understanding to explore an advanced glass-core packaging-substrate facility in Odisha, subject to approvals, support and other conditions.
- **2026-04** — Mandava joined the groundbreaking for a separate 3DGS advanced glass semiconductor packaging facility in Bhubaneswar; government materials target commercial production by August 2028.
- **2025-08** — India approved 3DGS's Odisha advanced packaging and embedded-glass-substrate project under the India Semiconductor Mission.
- **2024-06** — Spectrum Control introduced a 500 MHz-to-10 GHz high-Q RF filter family developed with 3DGS using wafer-scale manufacturing on glass substrates.

## Links

- Website: https://www.3dgsinc.com/babu-mandava
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/babu-mandava-12471915
- YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFu3DwOjPUE

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Last updated: 2026-08-18