Uploaded November 2025 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago

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In this episode of EE Times’ Silicon Grapevine, we chat with Rahul Patel, president and CEO of Synaptics. Patel talks about how he wanted to play cricket but ended up in electronics, his start as an ASIC designer and the transition to marketing and general management. He also talks about his entry into Broadcom working on security processors, and then taking up the opportunity at Qualcomm, and eventually to his role now at Synaptics.

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