Dr Raza is currently the Executive Chairman of the board at Eridan, a 5G/6G next generation Radio company, on the board at Liquid.ai, a foundation model company, Chairman of the board at Virsec, a next generation cybersecurity IP company. He is also on the boards of Arteris IP, a Public Advanced infrastructure on a chip company; Centriqe, a fintech company, CloudDefense, a cybersecurity company; and KlearNow which is automating transcontinental logistics. He is also Chairman of the board of fintech company Peernova. Atiq served on the Stanford University School of Engineering Advisory Council for eight years until 2016. He is an industry veteran and has been working in engineering leadership and senior management positions for the past thirty five years. He was Chairman and CEO of NexGen, the first company to challenge Intel in microprocessors. NexGen became a public company and subsequently was acquired by AMD for approximately US$850 million in AMD stock. Atiq became the President and COO of AMD and served on its Board of Directors. At AMD he laid the foundation of its processor business and brought the AMD K6 and Athlon products to market and established the Opteron 64 bit instruction set architecture. Prior to NexGen, Atiq held management positions at VLSI Technology Incorporated, the President of Technology Centres. Post AMD, Atiq founded Raza Microelectronics Incorporated (RMI). RMI was acquired by NetLogic in October 2009 and Atiq served as Chief Technology Advisor to NetLogic. NetLogic in turn was acquired by Broadcom on the strength of the RMI Processor. Atiq has been on the boards of several start ups including Mellanox (now a public company), SiByte (acquired by Broadcom for US$2.2 billion), Siara (acquired by Redback for US$4 billion), VxTel (acquired by Intel for US$500 million) and Magma (acquired by Synopsys for US$507 million). He has served as Executive Chairman of the board at Validity, a biometric solutions company acquired by Synaptics, on the Board of Seeo, a next generation Li ion battery company acquired by Bosch, Executive chairman at Minds.ai which was acquired by Applied Materials.
