Simon Knowles

Vice President Strategy & DXP® Technology

For the first 7 years of Icera's evolution, Simon served as Vice President Silicon Engineering, delivering Icera's first two generations of cellular chipsets. Simon is now responsible for Icera's corporate strategy and oversees its marketing group. Simon is the architect of Icera's unqiue DXP® processor architecture. He is a member of the Board of Directors and a founder of the company.

Prior to Icera, Simon co-founded ADSL chip company Element 14, where he served similarly as Vice President Silicon. Element 14 was acquired by Broadcom Corporation (NASDAQ: BRCM) for $640M in 2000. Simon established Element 14's design centre in Bristol, UK, and was responsible for the development of Element 14's digital chips. Simon co-architected the FirePath™ processor, which today enables Broadcom's unqiue soft DSL modem technology. Prior to Element 14, Simon led the custom processor design group of STMicroelectronics (NASDAQ: STM), formerly the design team of processor pioneer Inmos in Bristol, UK. Simon started his career at the UK’s Defence Electronics Research Agency, after graduating from Cambridge University with a degree in Electrical Science.