OUR TEAM
Analog Inference has assembled a team with deep technology expertise in analog/mixed signal design, non-volatile memory technology, CPUs, and AI Silicon at leading semiconductor companies. Collectively they have more than 50 successful tape-outs and have created market-changing semiconductor solutions worth billions of dollars.
Vishal Sarin
Founder - President & CEO
Vishal has led teams creating ground-breaking technology in analog SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC non-volatile memory, associative memory architectures for network processors, and analog & in-memory processors for AI. He has built billion$+ product lines, and has had postings at Micron, Fast-Chip, Information Storage Devices, SST/Microchip, and National Semiconductor. Vishal holds over 100 patents, an MSEE from University of Michigan and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Richard has been in the semiconductor and technology sectors for four decades. His expertise lies in leading business and strategy elements of new technologies. His deepest well of experience is in programmable chips, including Altera, Xilinx, XMOS, Wave Computing and Blaize. He started as a product engineer at National Semiconductor and is now leading business development for the AI sector, constructing the frameworks required for successful commercial productization. He holds a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Outside of work and his family his favorite endeavor is being a flight instructor.
Richard Terrill
VP/Business Development & Strategy
OUR TEAM
Analog Inference has assembled a team with deep technology expertise in analog/mixed signal design, non-volatile memory technology, CPUs, and AI Silicon at leading semiconductor companies. Collectively they have more than 50 successful tape-outs and have created market-changing semiconductor solutions worth billions of dollars.
Vishal Sarin
Founder - President & CEO
Vishal is a deep tech entrepreneur and engineer with over 25 years of success in various capacities in semiconductors and related systems. His core strengths are driving and leading company vision, managing boards and building efficient business and engineering teams. His seminal work has been in analog in-memory computing using non-volatile memories. Underpinning this are his numerous innovations in associative and in-memory compute architectures, SLC/MLC/TLC/QLC flash, network processors, and artificial intelligence architectures. He 100+ patents, authored numerous publications, and holds an MSEE from University of Michigan and an MBA from UC Berkeley.
Richard has been in the semiconductor and technology sectors for four decades. His expertise lies in leading business and strategy elements of new technologies. His deepest well of experience is in programmable chips, including Altera, Xilinx, XMOS, Wave Computing and Blaize. He started as a product engineer at National Semiconductor and is now leading business development for the AI sector, constructing the frameworks required for successful commercial productization. He holds a BS in Physics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Outside of work he enjoys being a teacher. His favorite students are his children, and as a flight instructor, his favorite classroom is an airplane.
Richard Terrill
VP/Business Development & Strategy
Taber has led companies, product development, and applications across a range of industries. His first company, Praesagus, developed a machine learning application for predicting surface topography and defects for IC designs. Taber then spent more than a decade leading product development for a range of industries including AI, solar, biotechnology, consumer electronics, and sensors for autonomous driving. Taber has over 25 patents and a Ph.D. from MIT.
Taber Smith
VP/Applications
PM Mammen has over 30 years of experience leading chip development teams designing ASICs, SOCs, and microprocessors. He has consulted to many leading companies such as Intel Labs, LG Silicon Valley Labs, and Huawei. He has deep expertise in chip design as well as algorithms. He has a Master’s Degree in electrical engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology.
PM Mammen
VP/Hardware
Peter started his career in EDA industry, working on multiple commercial products including back-end place and route, front-end synthesis, and rapid prototyping platforms. He has been the key inventor on several important innovations that were essential to making novel hardware products viable. He co-founded the FPGA startup Tierlogic, serving as VP/Software and responsible for the SDK. At AI startup Wave Computing he was the key compiler architect, developing new techniques to program architectures based on self-timed clockless logic. At Analog Inference he is developing his 3rd novel compiler, targeting a new class of computing fabrics. He has a Ph.D. from Duke University and holds 6 patents and 15 publications.
Peter Suaris
VP/Software