Celera Semiconductor Appoints Juha Oikarinen as Vice President of Product Management and Systems Engineering

Oikarinen’s focus will be delivery of world-class solutions for a growing worldwide customer base

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Celera Semiconductor, the leading analog IC supplier using AI to slash the cost and time to develop and supply analog ICs, today announced Juha Oikarinen has joined the company as vice president of Product Management and Systems Engineering reporting to CEO Patrick Brockett.

Oikarinen brings almost 20 years of experience in the development and delivery of advanced power systems. After graduating with a BSEE from the University of Oulu Finland, he began his career with Fairchild Semiconductor in applications engineering and product definition for mobile power and portable devices.

After moving to California, he joined Qualcomm's Systems Engineering group, focusing on power solutions. He then went onto lead AnDAPT’s product definition and systems engineering team, integrating FPGA, analog, and power technologies. He then spent over eight years at Google as a systems architect working on power systems, chip architectures, and design before joining Celera Semiconductor.

“Celera's mission is to provide our customers the power solutions they require to succeed in the market,“ said Patrick Brockett, Celera's CEO. “Juha has spent his career working on understanding customer needs and architecting the right silicon power solutions.“

“This is the perfect assignment for me,” commented Oikarinen. “Celera's world-class design team and advanced AI automation open the door to a new level of power technology delivery. I look forward to providing Celera’s customers what they need for market success.”

About Celera Semiconductor

Celera Semiconductor is redefining the future of analog IC design, using software acceleration based on its patented Nesto™ technology – the industry's first library of digital twins of analog functions. Celera Semiconductor is the first to offer full-custom or standard products in a fraction of the time of traditional semiconductor companies. Headquartered in Santa Clara, CA, Celera partners with world-class supply chain players to deliver high-performance, cost-efficient analog solutions at unprecedented speed. Maverick Silicon is the major investor in Celera.

For more information, visit www.celerasemi.com

About Maverick Silicon

Maverick Silicon is an investment adviser focused on private semiconductor growth companies and related opportunities. This includes a focus on companies designing or producing chips, hardware, software or processes that accelerate or enable the performance of the broader infrastructure stack underlying artificial intelligence. Maverick Silicon is a division of Maverick Capital, a global $10B asset manager.

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