Our Mission:

Rebuilding a Reliable Global Semiconductor Supply Chain

The current semiconductor supply chain is broken. We are team of talented engineers and designers dedicated to developing an alternate semiconductor supply chain that works for the free world instead of for autocratic unfriendly governments.

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Reference: www.semiconductors.org/semiconductor-industry-leaders-urge-president-biden-to-prioritize-funding-for-semiconductor-manufacturing-research/

Reference: www.airforcemag.com/article/facing-down-semiconductor-supply-chain-threats/

Experteze Semiconductors - Contributing to Industry Initiatives Supporting Democratic Values

In the face of dependency of global supply chain in semiconductors being controlled by authoritarian governments, the US Govt has made it a national priority to develop local control of semiconductor supply chain. It is keen to incentivize and attract investment for setting up of Semiconductor FABs in USA and friendly countries. This passion is shared by several ex-patriots in USA and ROW who have come together to launch an initiative to support this effort a reality.

Our objective is to leverage our years of domain experience in the technology development and financial connections in the investment community to benefit the country. We are partnering with many other groups who share similar passion, commitment and sentiments to work together towards this common goal. It is a grassroots effort to build ventures in multiple verticals relating to the semiconductor ecosystem.

  • We engage collectively as a team to leverage our combined strengths to build a new semiconductor industry base.
  • We partner with like minded professionals and business partners from around the world to identify and build on latest semiconductor technologies.
  • We actively work to be inclusive of all people and build an ecosystem that emphasizes our shared democratic values.
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Strategic Product Directions

Experteze Semiconductors is setting up factories to build products in the following areas.

  • All
  • Fabrication
  • Design
  • Packaging
  • Testing

Semiconductors Fabrication

Wafer Processing

Semiconductors Fabrication

IoT Devices

Design Chips and Devices

Healthcare, energy, transportation etc. areas

Chip Packaging

Wafer to products

Automated Testing & Verification

Chips, Devices and modules

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Frequently Asked Questions

Thank you for your interest in Experteze. We have tried to answer some common questions here, and if you have any not answered here, please contact us. We look forward to hearing from you.

  • What is Experteze Semiconductors?

    Experteze Semiconductors is a collaborative initiative by a team of people who are passionate about working together to build an alternate semiconductor supply chain not dependent on unfriendly autocratic governments. It currently includes domain experts with over 200 years of combined experience in semiconductor industry. Our team also includes several people with experience in multiple related areas which are critical to establishing a successful global supply chain model. We welcome everyone sharing this sentiment to join and work together. We actively seek to identify opportunities and create functioning joint ventures with partners. Our goal is to engage the experts, benefiting from their experience and relationships to launch joint ventures in USA and other friendly dempcratic countries. In the process, we engage with engineers and professionals worldwide to build successful businesses and project teams.

  • Experteze Semiconductors has several teams working on various sub-projects in semiconductor fabrication space. If you are interested in any of these teams, please contact us at the email or phone number shown in Contact Page. We will get you in touch with the correct team lead and guide you.

    We also have regular weekly online meetings which are open to everyone interested. Please join us and you can get to know the people involved as well as get a good idea of our activities prior to formally joining the group.

    Experteze also has other initiatives. You can join and participate in Experteze without being connected with a specific Experteze joint venture or business.

  • Yes. You can define the role you want to play in the team - mentor or coach, participant, etc., that is compatible with your current employment or other commitment status. If you are interested in being a formal employee in one of our ventures, please let us know and we can work the details.

Management Team

Dr. Mohan Venkataramana

President

Dr. Mohan Venkataramana is an entrepreneur and founder/president of Syntonix Inc., a technology research and development and business strategy solutions company specializing in translating bench scale concepts to marketable products. He has extensive experience building solutions and companies for niche areas in multiple verticals that include Life Sciences and Healthcare, Clean Energy, Retail Services, Telecommunications, Software and Enterprise solutions, AI/ML/Big data, Cloud Computing and Mobile Solutions. His focus is on identifying current and future trends in emerging areas of technology, and creating new technologies to help bridge the gap to the future. He graduated from the Indian Institute of Technology, Chennai with a B.Tech degree and received his Ph.D from MIT in Chemical Engineering. He also has a M.S degree in Energy Engineering from University of Illinois. His diverse work experience includes positions at AT&T Bell Labs, Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, Microsoft and Amazon. He has also collaborated with and supported many entrepreneurs and start-up ventures.



Mr. Stephen Pries

CEO

Steve has a 35+ year career in both the semiconductor and defense sectors. His semiconductor work has focused on product requirements, design implementation, product release and applications including customer support. Steve has worked as a hands-on individual contributor, team lead and director of engineering. A key focus has been continuous improvements to the design process including metrics for technical, schedule and financial. His responsibilities also included staffing, mentoring and university partnerships. Steve has contributed at the individual and board level to community humanitarian programs wherever he and his family have lived. His career includes fab specifications for CMOS and BiCMOS semiconductors. Products included x86, and RISC Systems-on-a Chip for personal computers, servers, networking, factory automation and communications. During Steve’s career he has contributed or led design teams in the USA, Japan, Taiwan and SE Asia. This work was done at Texas Instruments, National Semiconductor, Cyrix, Teradyne and several consulting firms. He received his AAS in Electronics Technology from Iowa State University. Steve’s BS in Electrical Engineering is from the University of Texas-Arlington. His MBA is from LeTourneau University at Longview, TX. He has certifications in Systems Engineering from the DoD Defense University.



Mr. Yu, Shih-Yun (Steven Yu)

General Manager, Experteze Semiconductors (Taiwan)

Mr. Yu received his Mechanical and Economics degree with Master degree from Wu Feng University and Fo Guang University. He has over 10 years experience as a stock trader and financial analyst in Taiwanese Stock Exchange Market, familiar with multiple industries. He has P.M.P., 6 Sigma Black Belt and 6 Sigma black Belt Lean. The mechanical industry works in 11 countries: China, Malaysia, Singapore, India, Thailand, Indonisia, Poland, Germany, Italy, Russia, Qatar. For project output, machine and equipment installation, create the production plan, process improvement, quality plan output and refine, production data analysis. He has experience in corporate and offer solutions with Japanese companies such as Sojitz Corporation, Sumitomo Corporation, Daido Kogyo Kaisha ,Ltd, Nakagawa Special Steel Inc, Ohshima Co.,Ltd, Unical Co.,Ltd, Neturen Co., Ltd.



Dr. Sai Chandra Teja

Vice President, Technology (IoT, AI in Manufacturing Technologies)

Dr. R Sai Chandra Teja received the B.Tech. Degree in Electronics & Communications Engineering from Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University Anantapur, Pulivendula, India, a M.Tech. Degree in Microelectronics & VLSI from IIT Hyderabad, India, and a Ph.D. Degree at Osaka University, Osaka. He joined the Center for Semiconductor Research and Development, Toshiba Corporation, Kawasaki, Japan as a researcher, where he was engaged in the development of MIPI M-PHY specification Verification IP. At the Institute of Memory Technology, System Technology R&D Center, KIOXIA Corporation (Previously Toshiba Memory Corporation), he continued to work on solid-state drive SSD reliability and machine learning algorithm strategies for nonvolatile storage technologies. He has contributed to multiple international conferences and journal publications. Being an idea hamster, Since 2020 he is on an entrepreneurship journey building Society 5.0 Technologies.



Mr. V. Jawahar

Vice President, Finance

V. Jawahar received his graduate and post-graduate degrees in Economics from university of Madras in 1969. He has several years of work experience with Canara Bank, the second largest Indian govt owned nationalized bank in the country. At Canara Bank, he served as officer in various segments of banking operations, including foreign exchange, auditing and inspection, as well as in credit processing and monitoring departments. After his 33 years of service at the bank, he retired and is currently providing financial consultancy to various private clients, on issues connecting with various banks like project appraisal etc. At Experteze Semiconductors, Jawahar is providing critical services such as financial management, investment planning and related services.



Mr. Francis Yee

Vice President, Strategy

Mr. Francis Yee received his BSEE degree from Northeastern University. An accomplished experimentalist, he has worked in several companies including Teradyne, Lockheed Martin, Northup Grumman, NASA, Raytheon, and is an Experienced engineer Natural Disaster Mitigation Specialist with a demonstrated history of working in the Defense & Space industry. Skilled in Electronics, Radio Frequency (RF), Fire Suppression Systems, Systems Engineering, and Embedded Systems. Strong community and social services professional. Francis worked on the NASA Goddard Hubble Space Telescope Servicing Mission 4, last time humans will visit Hubble Space Telescope, designed embedded Radiation Hardened Field Programmable Gate Array circuits to go into the flight control docking mechanism. He automated the docking procedure so that it required minimal crew intervention. He contributed to the SBIR application to create a Trusted Foundry Program. Francis’s professional experience includes: Experience with analog to digital converters and digital to analog converters, Experience with digital signal processing within an FPGA. and Schematic entry with tools, Effective technical project leadership. Familiarity with microelectronics assembly techniques, Familiarity with common data analysis tools such as Excel, MatLab, Simulink, and SPICE., Experience with programming languages (e.g. C++, PyThon, TCL, Experience documenting complex engineering designs, as well as engineering experience within the Aerospace, Aeronautics, Defense, Space, and Electronics Sectors.



Dr. Hsuanyeh Chang Esq.

Legal Counsel

Hsuanyeh Chang is a practicing attorney and a physicist. He has extensive experiences with both general practice and boutique law firms, as well as both international and startup companies. He received his JD from Suffolk University Law School of Boston, Massachusetts, and his PhD in Condensed Matter Physics from the City University of New York. He studied Nuclear Physics and received MS and BS from Chung Yuan Christian University in Taiwan. He also studied English and German at Wenzao Ursuline University of Languages in Taiwan. Hsuanyeh has drafted and prosecuted patent applications in the U.S., China, and Taiwan, and has represented parties in post-grant proceedings before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office for patents in concurrent district court litigations, resulting in favorable settlements for the client. He believes that the key to competent representation in patent matters is the ability to quickly and fully understand the technology involved in each case. Because of his broad knowledge base in the physical sciences, He has successfully procured patents for inventions in a wide variety of technologies, including computer software and hardware, semiconductor, electronics, mechanics, optics, medical devices, nanotechnology, bioassay, liquid crystal displays (LCD), organic light emitting diodes (OLED), wired and wireless telecommunication, electronic circuits, and digital/analog signal processing. He also has experience formulating in-house patent strategies, managing patent portfolio, licensing intellectual property, designing around competitor’s patents, and training R&D engineers on patent law basics. He was included in Lawyers of Color’s 2014 Hot List and selected as a 2014-2015 Global Fellow of the Federal Circuit Bar Association.

Job Openings

Thank you for your interest in Experteze. The following are the current job openings in Experteze and its partner start-ups.
To apply, please send your resume and cover letter to jobs@expertezesemiconductors.com identifying the position you are interested in.
We look forward to hearing from you.

  • Experteze Semiconductors is planning to launch ATMP/OSAT Operations in India and is looking for a qualified Chief Technology Officer to lead the project planning and implementation activities.

    The selected candidate will have several years of demonstrated experience in planning and managing the design of ATMP/OSAT facilities and ability to opeationalize the plans. Prior work experience in similar infrastructure facilities is required.

    The compensation will be commensurate with the experience and qualifications of the candidate.

  • Experteze Semiconductors is planning to launch Fab, ATMP/OSAT Operations in India and is looking for a qualified Chief Financial Officer to manage the financial and investment needs of the company.

    The selected candidate will have several years of demonstrated experience in managing the financial aspects of the company, attracting and managing investments from external sources, and budgeting Experteze projects. Prior work experience in similar environment is required.

    The compensation will be commensurate with the experience and qualifications of the candidate.

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