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The Chips Between a Battery and Everything It Wants to Become
onsemi does its most consequential work in the awkward space between raw electricity and useful motion. Its power chips and sensors are becoming the quiet architecture behind electric cars, factory robots and AI data centers.
The Chip Giant That Quit the Nanometer Race - and Found Its Edge
GlobalFoundries walked away from the industry’s most expensive contest. Now its specialty chips sit inside phones, cars, factories and the optical plumbing of AI - a bet that useful can matter more than smallest.
DreamBig Semiconductor Inc.
DreamBig Semiconductor is a San Jose-based chiplet company building open silicon platforms that scale AI networking from 800 Gbps to 12.8 Tbps. Founded by Marvell veterans, the team is selling chiplets, a SuperNIC, and a chiplet hub aimed at AI data centers, automotive, and edge compute.
Sohail Syed
Sohail Syed is the CEO, President, and co-founder of DreamBig Semiconductor, a San Jose-based fabless chip startup he built into a chiplet platform pioneer before its $265M acquisition by Arm in October 2025. A serial entrepreneur from Pakistan who attended NED University and later earned an MBA from Cornell, Syed previously founded Questarium (acquired by Marvell) and FIRQuest (acquired by Corigine), and at Marvell helped grow a network switches business to $4 billion in revenue across 10 successful chip tapeouts. DreamBig's MARS Open Chiplet Platform - unveiled at CES 2024 - democratizes silicon development for AI, data centers, automotive, and edge computing, and the company raised $75M in a Samsung-led Series B in July 2024 before the Arm deal closed.