Mr. Richard Grenier

Council Member Biography

Mr. Grenier is an independent Technology Consultant with over 20 years of engineering design and management experience in Semiconductor, CPU, and Systems design. Previous consulting work includes Qualcomm, Sony, Xelerated, Enigma, and IBM. Former employers include Zilog, MIPS, 3Com, Foundry Networks (Director of ASIC Development), and Enigma Semiconductor (VP Eng), and he is currently on the Board of Advisors for Silicon Xpress. His networking background includes network processors, switch fabrics, traffic management, switches/routers, wireless, and network security for commercial, SOHO, enterprise, and service provider markets. His CPU background covers PCs, Servers, communications, Network Appliances, Mobile, and embedded. Mr. Grenier tracks semiconductor technologies from Cypress, IDT, NETL, BRCM, MRVL, Cavium, Bay Micro, EZChip, Xilinx, Altera, Lattice, Intel, AMD, nVidia, ARM, and MIPS,. He is knowledgeable about systems coverage including HP, IBM, Dell, Infinera, CSCO, FDRY, JNPR, and EXTR. (This is me - Update Profile)

Employment History

2008 - 2008

Engineering Consultant, QUALCOMM INCORPORATED

2006 - 2007

Consultant, Enigma Semiconductor

2005 - 2006

Consultant, Xelerated, Inc.

2005 - Unspecified

Independent Consultant, Independent Consultant - Richard Grenier

1999 - 2005

Director of ASIC Development, FOUNDRY NETWORKS, INC.

1995 - 1999

Manager of ASIC Development, 3 Com Corporation