Peter Hughes

Vice President Silicon Engineering & Operations

Pete has overall responsibility for the baseband, RF and PMIC silicon engineering teams, as well as having responsibility for hardware engineering, product and test engineering and manufacturing operations functions.

Prior to Icera, Pete Hughes was Director of Broadcom Corporation's (NASDAQ: BRCM) Bristol, UK design centre where he held overall responsibility for the development of DSL central office chipsets. Pete was part of the founding team at Element 14, a start-up semiconductor company that was acquired by Broadcom in 2000 for $640M. Prior to Element 14, Pete was a technical lead at STMicroelectronics (NASDAQ:STM), in Bristol, UK where he led the joint analogue and physical IP development activities between STM and nVIDIA.. Pete has a background in high-speed memory and analog chip design, and started his career in process development and device physics at Inmos. He holds an MSc in Microelectronics from Edinburgh University and a BSc in Physics from Manchester University. Pete is a Member of the IEEE.