Andy Charnas

CEO

San Francisco, California, United States43 yrs 9 mos experience
Highly Stable

Key Highlights

  • Over 45 years of chip design experience.
  • Led teams at Nvidia through significant technological advancements.
  • Expertise in VLSI and semiconductor technologies.
Stackforce AI infers this person is a seasoned expert in semiconductor and VLSI design with extensive leadership experience.

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Skills

Other Skills

SoCMicroprocessorsSemiconductorsDebuggingARMICPerlMobile DevicesLow Power SystemsDevice CharacterizationCMOSVLSI

Experience

43 yrs 9 mos
Total Experience
6 yrs 2 mos
Average Tenure
3 mos
Current Experience

Self.

Retired

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos · San Francisco

None

Retired

Jan 2026 – Present · 3 mos

  • After 20 years at Nvidia, and 45 years design chips, it is definitely retirement time!
  • While I've been working, we've gone from 2.5um, 4Mhz clocks, 1 layer of metal, 100's of thousands of transistors per chip, to 2nm, 4Ghz clocks, 20+ metal layers, 100's of billions of transistors per chip, multiple chips per package, all in the last 45 years.... What an amazing industry we are in. I am very proud and have been very lucky to have worked with so many great people and amazing engineers over my career!!
  • Thanks to all. Now, time to relax and shift my work-life balance to 100% life!

Nvidia

2 roles

Senior Director VLSI, Nvidia

Promoted

Jan 2015 – Jan 2026 · 11 yrs

Director, VLSI

Aug 2005 – Dec 2023 · 18 yrs 4 mos

Cradle technologies

Director VLSI

Jan 2003 – Jan 2005 · 2 yrs

Reshape

VP of HW Engineering

Jan 2002 – Jan 2003 · 1 yr

Sun microsystems

Director of Engineering

Jan 1988 – Jan 2001 · 13 yrs

Silicon design labs

Design Engineer

Jan 1987 – Jan 1988 · 1 yr

Intel

Design Engineer

Jan 1984 – Jan 1987 · 3 yrs

Bell labs

Design Engineer

Jan 1981 – Jan 1984 · 3 yrs

Education

Stanford University

MSEE

Jan 1981 – Jan 1982

University of Pennsylvania

BSEE

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