Aftab Farooqi, Ph.D.
Founder & CEO
ChipHub
Biography
Aftab is the founder and CEO of ChipHub, an AI enabled semiconductor SaaS procurement platform for the hardware industry. ChipHub is Aftab’s second start-up. He was the founder and CEO of SiliconXpress, an IC design firm in 2008. Aftab began his career as an IC designer in the late 1980’s and has held a variety of both technical and commercial leadership roles including the last 12 years in semiconductor sourcing at Google and Amazon. He has a PhD in Electrical Engineering (VLSI design) from Texas Tech University.
Company Profile
ChipHub
ChipHub is an AI enabled semiconductor SaaS procurement platform for the hardware industry.
The hardware industry requires a procurement platform that is truly hardware-centric—a system that not only respects the effort and skill behind great products and amplifies talent, but also models component costs, total cost of ownership (including both CAPEX and OPEX), and more, to suit the real day to day needs of industry.
Most importantly, it requires a neutral platform that gives every stakeholder a seat at the table during crucial decision-making moments, from NPI through production to EOL.
Designed from the ground up by AI, semiconductor, and hardware specialists to serve the entire ecosystem, ChipHub offers a better way to build the future.