ThruChip Communications LLC Information

Dave Ditzel is a co-founder of Thruchip Communications and the CEO of the company since December 2013. He is bringing over 3 decades of leadership, technology development and licensing experience to the company. Prior to becoming CEO of Thruchip, Mr. Ditzel spent five years as a vice president and chief architect for hybrid computing at Intel Corporation. He was responsible for leading a world class architecture team to design a next generation processor architecture using binary translation. He was a co-founder of Transmeta Corporation, and served as its CEO from March 1995 to its successful IPO. He spent ten years at Sun Microsystems in various positions including CTO of the SPARC Technology Business, Director of Advanced Systems and acting director of Sun Labs. Prior to Sun he worked for ten years at ATT Bell Labs in Murray Hill, New Jersey, where he was the architect for the CRISP Microprocessor, one of first RISC processors, and he was a co-author of "The Case for the Reduced Instruction Set Computer." Ditzel has worked on the development of over two dozen computer systems, has published three dozen papers on advanced computer design and has received 11 patents. Professor Tadahiro Kuroda is a co-founder of Thruchip Communications. He is the pioneer of using inductive coupling as a means of achieving high speed communication and power delivery in 3D chip stacking. Tadahiro Kuroda received the Ph.D. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, in 1999. In 1982, he joined Toshiba Corporation, where he designed CMOS SRAMs, gate arrays and standard cells. From 1988 to 1990, he was a Visiting Scholar with the University of California, Berkeley, where he conducted research in the field of VLSI CAD. In 1990, he was back to Toshiba, and engaged in the research and development of BiCMOS ASICs, ECL gate arrays, high-speed CMOS LSIs for telecommunications, and low-power CMOS LSIs for multimedia and mobile applications. He invented a Variable Threshold-voltage CMOS (VTCMOS) technology ...