Primary Job Title Sr. Fellow Primary Organization 
Qorvo
Location Dallas, Texas, United States Regions Dallas/Fort Worth Metroplex, Southern US Gender Male
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Richard Knipe jointed Cavendish Kinetics in 2007 as VP of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer (CTO), following a 22-year career at Texas Instruments.
Dr. Knipe began at TI as a structural analyst, moving up in 1991 to R&D Manager for the company’s Digital Micromirror Devices division.
In 1995 he became Technology Development Manager
at TI, responsible for bringing the very successful Digital Light Processing (DLP) technology from qualification to $800 million revenue. He and Jeff Sampsell, Ed Nelson, and Larry Hornbeck, Ph.D., were co-winners of PC Magazine’s Best New Technology for the development of the DLP product.
Dr. Knipe spent his last five years at TI as business manager for the DLP Optical Networking and Digital Sensor groups.
He earned a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Oklahoma State University and master’s and doctoral degrees in mechanical engineering from the University of Texas at Arlington. He holds more than 30 MEMS-related patents.
