Don Smith joined MIPS as VP of Engineering in 2021. He was previously Senior Director of Engineering for Wave Computing and before that was a leader in building a RISC-V CPU engineering team for Bitmain. Prior to that, Don spent 14 years leading engineering teams at Cypress Semiconductor where was most recently Vice President of Design Verification. Before that, he was Director of Logic and Verification for Transmeta and Director of Engineering for MIPS processor developer Sandcraft. He has also held engineering management positions with Pyramid Technology and Unisys. Don holds a BS EECS from the University of California, Berkeley.