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James Foster and the chip that could wear somebody else’s name
At XMOS, James Foster argued that a small company should be able to sell its own chip without paying to design one from scratch. His most revealing early customer was the one whose name he kept to himself.
Jochen Meissner
Jochen Meissner is a German-trained mechanical engineer turned technology executive with more than 25 years of experience running machinery and technology companies across Europe and the United States. After leading the printing-press maker Goss International as President and CEO, he founded and ran Setem Technologies, a Boston-area startup built on patented signal-separation algorithms for far-field voice control. When the British semiconductor company XMOS acquired Setem in 2017, Meissner became General Manager of the XMOS Boston office and joined the XMOS Board of Directors, where he continues to help steer the company's push into voice and AI-enabled audio processing.