LSI Logic

American semiconductor company founded by Wilf Corrigan in 1981 — which pioneered Application Specific Integrated Circuits (ASICs) and storage controllers — and where Jensen Huang worked as a director of LSI's microprocessor group before co-founding Nvidia.

Provided Jensen Huang with his formative semiconductor industry experience — the technical depth and management exposure that prepared him to co-found Nvidia — while pioneering the ASIC model that influenced subsequent semiconductor business models.