Samir Patel is the President of Sankalp Semiconductor. Samir Patel is a technology leader with more than 25 years of semiconductor innovation and development under his belt. He has successfully led large design teams at some of the most innovative technology companies including Rambus, Sun Microsystems, National, Catalyst. Samir was instrumental in the growth of Rambus for more than 15 years where he led the deployment of high-speed interfaces and memories in leading-edge products ranging from computers to game machines. At Rambus he held various positions from individual contributor to Senior V.P. of Engineering and also started and managed the Rambus India design center. He is recognized in the industry as one of the leading experts in high-speed I/O interfaces, memory and CPU designs.

During 1988 to 1991 , Samir was with Sun Micro Systems and was part of the design team developing portion of SPARC architecture based CPU. Prior to Sun Samir played multiple technical roles with Catalyst Semiconductor and National Semiconductor . Later he joined Rambus Inc as an Engineer. By 1997, he was responsible for all Rambus engineering, related to the use of its RDRAM technology. Samir was also responsible for all Rambus engineering activities and interactions with companies like DEC, HP, Nintendo, NEC, Nortel, Sony, Sun Microsystems, TI and Toshiba. He was heavily involved in pre-sales activities at these companies to bring out design wins for complex IPs. In the year 1999, he was the Director of Engineering, Personal Computers Division at Rambus and lead the very complex industry wide effort for successful launch of RDRAM based Intel products.

During 2002 to 2005 Samir was Vice President of Memory Interface Division at Rambus. In this role Samir led the initiative which included scoping of various locations to being in charge of the first non-US design center in Bangalore, India. Rambus’ Banglore center , started by Samir as Managing Director , is now 100+ in strength . He also championed and completed an acquisition – of an IP unit of another company with people in Bangalore and San Jose. Along with his responsibilities in India, he jointly ran US engineering.

Samir has a B.S. from Indian Institute of Technology Bombay and a MS from University of California at Santa Barbara and has taken various technical, management and executive courses at Standford University.