Sameer Wasson is the CEO of MIPS, the storied semiconductor IP company now reborn as a RISC-V pure-play targeting the physical AI era. He joined in September 2023 after 18 years at Texas Instruments, where he ran the Processors business and earlier built TI's mmWave radar franchise. MIPS is now a subsidiary of GlobalFoundries.
Lisa Su is the President and CEO of AMD, leading one of the greatest corporate turnarounds in tech history. Since taking the helm in 2014, she transformed AMD from a struggling chipmaker on the brink of irrelevance into a $378 billion semiconductor titan that rivals Intel and powers the AI revolution. The MIT-trained electrical engineer with a PhD in semiconductors isn't just building chips - she's reshaping the future of computing, from gaming consoles to data centers to artificial intelligence. Named Time's CEO of the Year in 2024 and recognized as one of the world's most powerful women, Su runs toward the hardest problems in an industry where failure means obsolescence.
Zettascale Computing Corporation (formerly Exa Laboratories) builds polymorphic XPU chips that reconfigure their own dataflow architecture to match each AI model - delivering up to 27.6x greater energy efficiency than NVIDIA H100 GPUs. Founded by a 21-year-old Swedish dropout and a Cambridge-trained engineer, this YC S24 company is shipping prototype Grasshopper cards fully manufactured in America, with commercial release planned for 2026. Their ambition: make zettascale computing sustainable and become the hardware substrate for all future AI.