Tom Leahy, Head of Aerospace & Defense Business Development at SiFive, joins John Cole for this episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders. Leahy speaks at length about the critical work that SiFive is doing in the semiconductor industry; work that is not going unnoticed by both the public and private sector. Recent partnerships with Google and NASA show how SiFive serves as a trusted organization for micro architecture. 

SiFive is currently being used by a staggering eight of the top ten semiconductor companies, as well as increasing their work with the Department of Defense and the wider Defense Industrial Base. Leahy's perspective is invaluable as semiconductor fabrication continues to expand across the ecosystem in the wake of the CHIPS Act. 

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Gayathri Radhakrishnan, Partner at Hitachi Ventures, joins John Cole in this episode of Circuit Talk: Funders and Founders. Through the corporate venture arm of Hitachi, Radhakrishnan helps create partnerships with start-ups, forging relationships with companies ready to scale and deliver value for their industry, the nation, the globe, and Hitachi. 

With a keen eye on the impact that technological advancements can have on the global marketplace, Radhakrishnan speaks on the importance of making hardware engineering cool again. As she says, “as much as software may be eating the world, that software needs to run on underlying hardware. It’s not magic.” 

Learn more about the work Hitachi Ventures does here: https://www.hitachi-ventures.com/