Architecting
for the Edge

Veerbhan has founded three technology companies and has full stack expertise spanning from ASIC’s and Datacenters to consumer facing products. Along with his Quadric co-founders, Veerbhan co-founded 21, Inc (in 2013) with the goal of bringing high-performance supercomputers to the cryptocurrency space. Veerbhan served in various roles ranging from designing custom ASICs (3 chips in 18 months), developing web scale blockchain backends & building consumer facing mobile apps and products. Prior to 21, Veerbhan co-founded Fabbrix, Inc (in 2005) which was 

acquired by PDF Solutions in 2007. Fabbrix was focused on tools and flows that enabled design for manufacturability of complex Integrated Circuits. Post acquisition, Veer led several initiatives at PDF Solutions including product roadmap, data analytics & technical marketing.

Prior to Quadric, Nigel was the Chief Architect & Co-founder at 21, Inc. where he designed and built-out all of the technology the company used to mine bitcoin: ASICs, HPC systems as well as much of the software that operated those systems. Nigel developed 3 ASICs in 18 months (2 x 22nm, 1 x 40nm), and was the primary technical interaction point with Intel Custom Foundry. He was previously in a Research & Development role spanning semiconductor test structure development & software at PDF Solutions and also worked at Intel on ASIC flows for a block of high-performance microprocessor as well as automation for timing flows.

Prior to Quadric, Daniel co-founded 21, Inc in 2013 with the goal of bringing high-performance compute to the cryptocurrency space. On the chip-side, Daniel handled microarchitecture of the cryptocurrency algorithms and oversaw the physical implementation and manufacturing of 21’s first chips. Daniel led the design and deployment of 21’s bitcoin mining systems into datacenters. During 21’s push to empower the developer with Bitcoin, Daniel was responsible for design, development, channel distribution and support of the 21 Bitcoin Computer. He led business development efforts for licensing 21’s Bitcoin-related IP. Prior to 21, Daniel was a Senior R&D Engineer at PDF Solutions working on silicon big data collection, analytics and presentation methods

Tim is a respected semiconductor industry figure who started his career designing high speed semiconductor test equipment and Inmarsat satellite terminals.  He also founded a very successful FPGA and ASIC IP engineering company, (Memec Design Services).  After this, he has managed the sales teams at Rambus Cryptography Research and several successful companies.  He has managed, negotiated, and delivered numerous high value multi-year, multinational, collaborative business engagements. He delivers results by combining his electronics industry knowledge (semiconductor, IP, design services, engineering, rep, distribution),international sales, marketing, and investment with a practical hands-on approach, adding great value for semiconductor and intellectual property companies.

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