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• Lighting and Display Industry Leaders Join Rambus (Mar. 10, 2010)
  Rambus announced that Dr. Kieran Drain and Mr. Marc McConnaughey have joined as vice presidents of the company’s Lighting and Display Technology group. Dr. Drain will hold the position of vice president, Strategy and Technology, while Mr. McConnaughey will serve as the vice president of Strategic Development.
  
  
• Intrinsic-ID names Tim Smith as Vice President of Sales in North America (Feb. 17, 2010)
  Intrinsic-ID, Inc., an emerging semiconductor intellectual property (IP) and services provider, today announced it has named Tim Smith to the position of vice president of sales in North America.
  
  
• eSilicon Names Ajay Lalwani as Vice President, Strategic Sourcing (Feb. 17, 2010)
  eSilicon today announced the appointment of Ajay Lalwani as vice president, strategic sourcing, a new and key position at the company.
  
  
• Numetrics Taps Veteran Software Executive as VP Engineering (Feb. 09, 2010)
  Numetrics announced today that Yee Gan has been named vice president of engineering for the global company.
  
  
• NEC Electronics and Renesas Announce the New Executive Team Following Merger (Feb. 01, 2010)
  NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology today announced candidates of the executive team that will be in place following the business integration on April 1, 2010.
  
  
• Sandeep Vij Appointed CEO of MIPS Technologies (Jan. 25, 2010)
  Mr. Vij brings to MIPS Technologies more than 20 years of senior-level management and marketing experience in the semiconductor industry. Prior to joining MIPS Technologies, he was vice president and general manager of the Broadband and Consumer Division of Cavium Networks, a MIPS® architecture licensee and leading provider of highly-integrated semiconductor products that enable intelligent processing in networking, communications, and connected home applications.
  
  
• Silicon Image Appoints Camillo Martino Chief Executive Officer (Jan. 06, 2010)
  Silicon Image today announced the appointment of Camillo Martino as its new chief executive officer (CEO). Martino comes to Silicon Image from SAI Technology, Inc. SAI is a leading supplier of 4G and security technology solutions to the mobile communications industry.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies CEO John Bourgoin Confirms Year-End Retirement (Dec. 30, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today confirmed that as announced in July, its President, CEO and Director John Bourgoin will retire effective December 31, 2009.
  
  
• Qualcomm Announces Leadership Changes (Dec. 28, 2009)
  Qualcomm Incorporated (Nasdaq: QCOM), a leading developer and innovator of advanced wireless technologies, products and services, today announced that Len Lauer, chief operating officer, has resigned and accepted a CEO role at another company.
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Juan Chapa as Vice President of Worlwide Sales (Nov. 30, 2009)
  Kilopass Technology today announced the appointment of Juan Chapa as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, effective immediately. Former Artisan & Tensilica Executive with Extensive IP Experience and Relationship Positions Kilopass for Continued Growth in 2010
  
  
• Global Unichip announced the retirement of Vice Chairman and CEO K.C. Shih (Nov. 12, 2009)
  Vice Chairman and CEO, K.C. Shih, of the world’s leading SoC Design Foundry service provider, Global Unichip announced his retirement and resigned from current post of Vice Chairman and CEO during the board meeting held today.
  
  
• Embedded OTP Leader Sidense Hires NVM Veteran Humes for Product Engineering VP Position (Nov. 12, 2009)
  Sidense today announced the appointment of Todd Humes as the company’s new Vice President of Product Engineering.
  
  
• Wireless expert Edgar Auslander Appointed Head of ST-Ericsson's Strategic Planning (Nov. 04, 2009)
  
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Corporation Announces Major Reorganization (Oct. 09, 2009)
  Patriot Scientific announced a major reorganization today. Rick Goerner has been relieved from his position as Chief Executive Officer and President of PTSC by the PTSC Board of Directors. He has resigned all positions with Patriot Data Solutions Group, Inc. ("PDSG", a wholly owned subsidiary of PTSC) and Avot Media, Talis Data Systems and Holocom Inc., three companies in which PTSC is invested.
  
  
• SiliconGate appoints ex-Chipidea exec as CEO (Oct. 02, 2009)
  SiliconGate LDA (Porto, Portugal), a developer of power management intellectual property cores for use in system-on-chip ICs, has appointed Floriberto Lima as president and chief executive officer.
  
  
• Silicon Image Announces Departure of CEO; Harold Covert Appointed as President and COO (Sep. 29, 2009)
  Silicon Image today announced the resignation of its president and chief executive officer, Steve Tirado, 55. Hal Covert, 62, chief financial officer, will be taking over as president and chief operating officer, effective immediately.
  
  
• TSMC Appoints Dr. Shang-Yi Chiang as Senior Vice President (Sep. 28, 2009)
  TSMC today announced the appointment of Dr. Shang-Yi Chiang as its Senior Vice President of Research & Development (R&D).
  
  
• Evatronix hires Carsten Elgert as VP of Marketing and Sales (Sep. 17, 2009)
  Evatronix today announced Carsten Elgert accepted the position as the Vice President of Marketing and Sales at Evatronix. Elgert comes from Mentor Graphics, where he served as European Marketing Director over the last 6 years.
  
  
• Intel Announces Organizational Changes (Sep. 14, 2009)
  Intel announced a number of important organizational changes today and expansion of some key executive responsibilities. The changes align the business around the core competencies of Intel Architecture and world class manufacturing, placing operating responsibility for them in three senior executives.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints Vice President of Marketing (Sep. 10, 2009)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the appointment of Jim Ballingall as vice president of marketing.
  
  
• GSA Appoints Warren Savage as IP Interest Group Chairman (Aug. 31, 2009)
  GSA announce the appointment of Warren Savage, president and chief executive officer of IPextreme, to serve as the GSA IP Interest Group Chairman.
  
  
• Cadence Design Systems Appoints John Bruggeman as Chief Marketing Officer (Aug. 27, 2009)
  
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Pioneer NVM Developer Lee Cleveland as New VP of Engineering (Aug. 24, 2009)
  Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor logic non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), today announced the appointment of Lee Cleveland as Vice President of Engineering, effective immediately. Lee succeeds Pearl Cheng, who managed Engineering at Kilopass for the past four years.
  
  
• Rapid Bridge Expands Executive Management Team (Aug. 13, 2009)
  Rapid Bridge announced today that Vikas Chaudhary has joined the company as vice president of sales. Chaudhary comes to Rapid Bridge from ARM, where he most recently served as director of worldwide sales.
  
  
• Cosmic Circuits Appoints Senior Executive Jose-Maria Moniz to boost Global Business (Aug. 04, 2009)
  Cosmic Circuits today announced that a seasoned senior executive, Jose-Maria Moniz, has joined the company as Vice-President Worldwide Sales. This appointment is an important step in the company's growth plan and leverages Moniz's extensive experience in the industry.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Planned Retirement of CEO John Bourgoin; Launches Search for Successor (Jul. 13, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that long-time President and CEO John Bourgoin intends to retire at the end of the calendar year. The Company's board of directors plans to begin an immediate search for a successor, which is expected to take three to six months.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces New Fab 2 Executive Leadership Team (Jun. 24, 2009)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the appointment of Norm Armour as vice president and general manager and Eric Choh as vice president of operations to lead an expanding team dedicated to developing Fab 2, the company’s next semiconductor fabrication facility.
  
  
• EASIC CEO resigns, Vasishta regains title (Jun. 18, 2009)
  Patrick Little, chief executive of fabless ASIC house eASIC Corp., has quietly resigned after less than six months on the job. At the same time, Ronnie Vasishta has reassumed the role of CEO at the company.
  
  
• CebaTech Hires Joe Rash as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing (Jun. 17, 2009)
  CebaTech has announced that Joe Rash has joined the company as Vice President of Business Development and Marketing. Mr. Rash will be responsible for strengthening CebaTech’s growing customer base, while increasing the company’s position in the storage, storage area network (SAN), and networking applications markets.
  
  
• UMC Announces Retirement of Mr. Tony Yu as President of UMC-USA Office (Jun. 15, 2009)
  UMC today announced the retirement of Mr. Tony Yu, president of the UMC-USA office, effective immediately. Mr. Jason Wang, vice president of UMC's Corporate Marketing division, will become president of UMC-USA.