Pete Hughes

Pete was formerly Vice President of Modem Hardware and Silicon at NVIDIA. He joined NVIDIA in 2011 with the acquisition of Icera, where he was vice president of Silicon and Operations. He was responsible for the baseband, RF and PMIC silicon engineering teams, as well as hardware engineering, product and test engineering and manufacturing operations functions. Prior to Icera, Pete was director of Broadcom Corporation's Bristol, UK design center, with responsibility for the development of DSL central office chipsets. He's also had experience as a founder at the startup Element 14, STMicroelectronics and Inmos. He holds an MSc in microelectronics from Edinburgh University and a BSc in physics from Manchester University. Pete is a member of the IEEE.