Wei-jin Dai

Biography

Wei-Jin Dai has served as our Executive Vice President and General Manager of Intellectual Property Division, as well as Chief Strategy Officer since December 2015. Wei-Jin has more than 30 years of experience managing business and product development, including as President & CEO of Vivante Corporation before it merged with VeriSilicon. At Vivante, he oversaw the development of industry-leading GPU IP, VISION Processor IP, and Display IP products used in automotive, IoT platforms, entertainment systems and mobile devices. Vivante under Wei-Jin's leadership has grown to more than 50 customers, and has shipped over 300 million units. Before joining Vivante, Wei-Jin was Corporate Vice President at Cadence Design Systems’ leading Digital Implementation System Division for the Encounter product line, which was acquired along with the company Wei-Jin co-founded, Silicon Perspective Corporation. Silicon Perspective Corporation developed the industry-leading First Encounter virtual prototyping systems. Prior to Silicon Perspective, Wei-Jin managed product development at Quickturn Design Systems, a leader in emulation technology, and held engineering and management positions at Hewlett Packard and Lucent Bell Labs. Wei-Jin holds M.S. and B.S. Degrees in electrical engineering and computer science from the University of California, Berkeley. 

Research Interest

 engineering