Sergis Mushell is a Research Director with Gartner’s Technology and Service Provider Research group. His primary focus is on processors and graphic processors, heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) technology (Intel, AMD, ARM, MIPS, Power, Nvidia, Imagination), microprocessors UPU and GPU, ARM processors, and MIPS processors. Mr. Mushell also covers the impact of the cloud, data centers and virtualization on semiconductors. He covers the semiconductor medical applications, with a focus on remote patient monitoring and diagnostic electronic equipment. In storage area, Mr. Mushell focuses on SAN infrastructure related to HBA and FC switches and director system environments, HCA Infiniband, 10 Gigabit Ethernet NIC and LOM, FCoE, CNA (Brocade, Cisco, Emulex, Qlogic, Mellanox, Chelsio, Intel, Broadcom), and all storage semiconductors, including NAS, SATA, SAS, FC and RAID silicon solutions, as well as networking semiconductors with focus on software-defined networks (SDNs) and converged networks (Cavium, Broadcom, EZchip, Netronome, LSI, Freescale).
Prior to joining Gartner, Mr. Mushell managed EMEA and North America as Area Sales Manager for Phaselink. He held product line management and marketing roles with several semiconductor companies, such as Altera and IDT, where he led efforts in product definition and business plans for new product lines. Mr. Mushell played a key role in several M&A due diligence activities and worked within standards bodies, such as JEDEC and IEEE, on new standards and initiatives.