Lattice’s Vision for Secure AI Infrastructure from Silicon to Firmware

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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Sanjoy Maity leads Lattice Semiconductor’s AMI business unit. He joined Lattice following the acquisition of AMI in July 2026. Sanjoy is responsible for driving the continued success of AMI security, orchestration, and manageability products and solutions across strategy, business management, customer and partner engagement, and engineering.

Sanjoy brings more than 35 years of deep expertise in firmware, server manageability, and platform security to the role. He joined AMI in 1991 and, prior to its acquisition by Lattice, most recently served as its Chief Executive Officer, a role he assumed in 2019. Under his leadership, AMI expanded its position as the global standard-bearer for firmware, with solutions deployed in billions of devices worldwide. Prior to becoming CEO, he headed AMI’s Manageability Solutions Group, where he designed and developed the industry’s first true out-of-band manageability solution – a technology that has since become an industry standard.

Sanjoy holds more than 80 patents from the United States Patent and Trademark Office spanning firmware and system management technologies. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Technology from the Indian Institute of Engineering, Science & Technology (IIEST).

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