Tadahiko Horiuchi, President and CEO
Dr. Horiuchi has 20 years experience in developing and managing LSI Process Integration. He was a project leader of 0.25um, 0.13um and 65nm CMOS Integration in NEC Electronics. From 2003 to 2004, he was an Executive Vice President at DongbuAnam Semiconductor Corporation in South Korea.
He introduced an approach to evaluate the reliability of the hot carrier effect by putting duty factors firstly presented at the VLSI Symposium in 1984. This process is now a standard within the semiconductor industry.
He received BS and MS degrees in nuclear technology from Kyoto University. He also studied under Dr. Ohmi at Tohoku University and received his Ph.D. in engineering in 1993.
Kenji Noda, Executive VP & CTO
Kenji Noda is responsible for developing NSCore’s designs and for technical support to customers.
Prior to joining NSCore, Mr. Noda was Department Manager at NEC Electronics Corporation. There he conducted a development on the embedded DRAM process integration and launched a series of new technologies and products. He has a combined experience of 18 years in the areas of SRAM and DRAM design and CMOS process integration from 0.25 to 90-nm generations including embedded DRAM technologies.
He has served in technical program committees at CICC for six years. He has authored numerous technical papers on semiconductor device and circuits, especially in memory area. He received BS and MS degrees in Electrical Engineering from Waseda University.
Katsumi Hashimoto, CFO
Katsumi Hashimoto has served as Chief Financial Officer of NSCore since April 2008.
He was previously Director of an embedded software startup, and Manager of Tohmatsu Consulting, where he gained his expertise in corporate management and accounting. Before joining Tohmatsu in 2003, he had worked as equity investment coordinator for NTT Data Corporation, a systems integration giant in Japan.
He received BA in area studies from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies in 1992, and MBA from the University of Michigan in 2001.
Chenming Hu, Executive Advisor
Dr. Chenming Calvin Hu is the TSMC Distinguished Chair Professor of Microelectronics in Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences at University of California, Berkeley. From 2001 to 2004, he was the Chief Technology Officer of TSMC, world's largest dedicated integrated circuits manufacturing company. He founded Celestry Design Technologies, an IC design software company that was acquired by Cadence Design Systems in 2003. He was the board chairman of the non-profit East Bay Chinese School, Oakland, CA.
He is the author or co-author of three books and 800 research papers and has supervised 60 doctoral students in the field of semiconductor technology. Dr. Hu is a member of the US National Academy of Engineering and Academia Sinica; a fellow of the IEEE and the Institute of Physics; and an Honorary Professor of the Chinese Academy of Science Microelectronics Institute, and National Chiao Tung University.
Dr. Hu received his BS degree from National Taiwan University and MS and Ph.D. degrees from the University of California, Berkeley, all in electrical engineering.
Norihiko Naono, Advisor
Mr. Naono is founder and CEO of Ripplex Inc., a software company in Tokyo. For founding Ripplex, he was at Worldview Technology Partners, one of the major venture capital firms located in Palo Alto, CA, as an entrepreneur in residence for short period.
Before Worldview, he was vice president of Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq RMBS) and president of Rambus KK (Rambus subsidiary in Japan). He pushed Rambus up to the world's second largest semiconductor IP company by growing revenue more than ten times (up to $90M) in Japan during his 9 years of service. Before Rambus, he was with Nomura Research Ltd(T.4307) as a well known consultant in semiconductor industry.
He holds BS and MS from Keio University. He has written two books and a lot of papers regarding high speed signaling and interface technologies.
