Fermi Wang

Who is Fermi Wang?

Fermi Wang co-founded Ambarella Inc. in 2004 to drive innovation in

video compression for hybrid digital cameras and define a new class of

consumer products.

Prior to founding Ambarella, Wang was

CEO and co-founder of Afara Websystems, a startup that pioneered

throughput computing for servers. Afara was acquired by Sun

Microsystems in July 2002. The multi-core, multi-thread CPU design

developed at Afara is the critical technology in Sun’s current roadmap

for its UltraSPARC processors.

Before founding Afara, Wang

held several senior management positions at C-Cube Microsystems. As

vice president and general manager of the Home Media division, he had

PL responsibility for silicon solutions for the DVD, digital video

recorder (DVR) and digital video distribution and production markets.

As vice president and general manager of the company’s codec division,

he launched the company’s MPEG codec business and served in both

engineering and business management roles. During this time, Wang and

his team were responsible for growing the business by 200 percent in

two years and developing the world’s first MPEG codec chip.

Wang

owns several digital video-related patents; one of them is accepted by

MPEGLA as one of the key MPEG-2 and MPEG-4/AVC patents. Fermi Wang

received his bachelor’s degree in electrical engineering from National

Taiwan University and earned his master’s and doctorate degrees in

electrical engineering from Columbia University.