Dr.
Suhas S. Patil, born 1944 in
Jamshedpur,
Jharkhand,
India, is a
Silicon Valley entrepreneur,
venture capitalist and
philanthropist. He founded the company
Cirrus Logic a fabless
semiconductor company.
He received his bachelor's degree in engineering from the
Indian Institute of Technology, Kharagpur, and MSEE and PhD from
MIT.
Patil founded Patil Systems, Inc., (1981) in
Salt Lake City, which was renamed as Cirrus Logic in 1984 when it moved to Silicon Valley. He is the Chairman
Emeritus of Cirrus Logic from 1997. He is the Chairman of Digité, Inc., which was earlier named Tufan Infotech and is also Chairman of the Board of Cradle Technologies. He also serves on the boards of
The Tech Museum and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.
Patil co-founded a global not for profit organization, the
TiE – The Ind-US Entrepreneurs in 1992, together with successful entrepreneurs and businessmen of
Indian origin in Silicon Valley for nurturing and mentoring entrepreneurs and young companies. He served as TiE's first president. Patil is an
angel investor in numerous start-ups, like
Vitalect.
Patents and Research Papers
Patil is recipient of several patents in the field of integrated circuits and has over 40 scientific papers covering the areas of
Computer Architecture,
Parallel Processing,
Mathematics for Computer Science and
Design Methodology.
Academia
Patil received his bachelor's degree in...
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