Ford Tamer is Lattice Semiconductor’s Chief Executive Officer and serves on the company’s Board of Directors. He joined Lattice in September 2024.
Ford brings to his role extensive industry experience and leadership spanning 20 years in semiconductors and 10 years in software. Before joining Lattice, in his most recent operating position, Ford served as President and CEO of Inphi for more than nine years, where he led the company to become the market leader for electro-optics solutions for cloud and telecom operators until its merger with Marvell Technologies, Inc. Prior to Inphi, he was CEO of Telegent Systems, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure Networking Group, co-founder and CEO of Agere Inc., amongst other operating roles earlier in his career. He also, most recently, held a senior operating partner role at Francisco Partners.
Ford holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering from MIT.He currently serves on the Board of Directors of the Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) and the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA), and previously served on the Board of Directors of Groq, Inc., Marvell Technologies, Inc., and Teradyne Inc.
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Recent Videos
The Rise of Companion Silicon: Rethinking AI Architecture from Edge to Cloud
Patrick Moorhead and Daniel Newman break down the week’s biggest AI signals, from $650B in hyperscaler CapEx and Anthropic’s breakout momentum to the SaaS repricing debate and a Flip segment on how fast AI can realistically disrupt white-collar work.
Six Five On The Road at Lattice DevCon 2024 - Deep Dive into Lattice's Growth and Innovations
Ford Tamer, CEO at Lattice, alongside Esam Elashmawi and Dan Mansur, share in-depth insights into Lattice's growth strategy, key product launches, and their unique stance in the Edge AI marketplace, directly from Lattice DevCon 2024.
Six Five Summit Sessions
Redefining AI Secure Management and Control Infrastructure from Silicon to Firmware, with Lattice
AI infrastructure is becoming more distributed, heterogeneous, and difficult to manage as compute expands from individual servers to rack-scale systems and new physical AI environments. In this conversation, Patrick Moorhead, Ford Tamer, and Sanjoy Maity explore the market shifts driving new requirements for secure management and control infrastructure, and how tighter integration between silicon and firmware can address them. The discussion will give viewers a clearer understanding of where these infrastructure demands are heading and what the combination of Lattice and AMI could mean for the broader ecosystem.
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