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• 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.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems appoints New Sales Director (Jun. 02, 2009)
  Arasan announced the appointment of Ron Mabry, as the Director, North American Sales.
  
  
• KABEN appoints Tom Willey to the Board of Advisors (May. 14, 2009)
  Kaben Wireless Silicon announced today the appointment of Tom Willey to the company’s Board of Advisors.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints Head of Design Enablement (May. 13, 2009)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the new leading-edge semiconductor foundry company formed by a joint venture between AMD and ATIC, today announced the appointment of Curtis “Mojy” Chian as senior vice president of design enablement.
  
  
• Octasic Inc. Appoints New Chief Executive Officer (May. 12, 2009)
  Octasic today announced that Robert Blake has been appointed chief executive officer. Blake, who until recently served as vice president of consumer and automotive business at Altera Corporation, brings more than 20 years of industry experience to Octasic.
  
  
• Jeff Ball Joins Kilopass as VP of Corporate Development (May. 11, 2009)
  Former JPMorgan Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking joins Kilopass to drive its strategic growth plan
  
  
• ARC International plc Board Changes (May. 06, 2009)
  ARC International today announces the resignation of its President and Chief Executive Officer, Carl Schlachte with immediate effect. The role of President and CEO will be filled by Dr Geoff Bristow, who is currently the Senior Independent Director of the Company and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2003.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints New Technology Leader (Apr. 27, 2009)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES, the new leading-edge semiconductor foundry company formed by a joint venture between AMD and Advanced Technology Investment Company (ATIC), today announced the appointment of Gregg Bartlett as senior vice president of technology and research and development.
  
  
• Chartered Appoints New Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Marketing (Apr. 06, 2009)
  Chartered today announced Ian Chapman-Banks has joined the company as senior vice president of worldwide sales and marketing, effective immediately.
  
  
• Kilopass Executive Harry Luan is Promoted to CTO (Apr. 01, 2009)
  In his new role of CTO, Luan will lead the company’s efforts to incubate new NVM technology areas and foster Kilopass’s commitment to technology innovation and reliability.
  
  
• Tensilica Strengthen its Focus on Audio, Video and Baseband DSP by Adding Mahesh Venkatraman As New VP of Marketing, Vertical Segments (Mar. 24, 2009)
  Tensilica, Inc. today announced that it has added a key member to its executive team. Mahesh Venkatraman has joined Tensilica as vice president of marketing, vertical segments. In this new position, Venkatraman will report to company president and CEO, Jack Guedj, and is responsible for the marketing, strategic business development, and partnerships for audio, video, and baseband DSP (digital signal processing) vertical segments.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Appoints Semiconductor Industry Veteran Art Swift as Vice President of Marketing (Mar. 23, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies announced it has named Art Swift as vice president of marketing, reporting to MIPS President and CEO John Bourgoin.
  
  
• DAFCA Appoints Dennis Shepard CEO and Introduces Two New Products (Mar. 16, 2009)
  DAFCA, Inc., the premier provider of software solutions that automate and accelerate post-silicon system-on-a-chip validation, today announced the appointment of 30-year industry veteran Dennis Shepard as CEO. DAFCA has also extended its ClearBlue(TM) line with two new products, ClearBlueXpress and ClearBlueFPGA, to address the broader needs of the SoC and FPGA markets.
  
  
• Kilopass Adds Industry Veteran Bill Cibulsky as VP of Worldwide Sales (Mar. 02, 2009)
  Kilopass Technology today announced the appointment of Bill Cibulsky as VP of Worldwide Sales, effective immediately. Bill succeeds founder, Charles Ng, who has decided to pursue other career opportunities after 8 years with the company.
  
  
• ARC International Introduces New Members of Executive Management Team (Feb. 19, 2009)
  ARC announced today three appointments to its executive management team. Leading the drive are Michael Franzi, worldwide vice president of marketing; Sean Redmond, vice president of worldwide field operations; and Craig Slayter, senior vice president of multimedia solutions.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Executive Departure (Feb. 04, 2009)
  MIPS Technologies today announced the departure of Chief Operating Officer John Derrick, effective February 6, 2009. The Processor Business Group will now be managed directly by John Bourgoin, MIPS Technologies' president and CEO.
  
  
• Arasan Chip Systems Appoints New Senior Director of Engineering (Jan. 28, 2009)
  Arasan announced today that Ignatius Bezzam, a semiconductor-industry veteran with more than 25 years of experience, has joined the company as a Senior Director of Engineering.
  
  
• MagSil, a Developer of MRAM, Adds Dr. Stefan K. Lai, Intel - Retired VP of Flash Memory Group, to its Board of Directors (Jan. 27, 2009)
  MagSil Corporation, a semiconductor IP provider and fabless semiconductor company developing next generation Magnetoresistive Random Access Memory (MRAM) solutions, today announced the addition of Dr. Stefan K. Lai to its board of directors.
  
  
• SP Devices establishes US presence and recruits Vice President of Sales for North America (Jan. 26, 2009)
  SP Devices today announced that it has hired a Vice President of Sales for North America. As part of SP Devices’ expansion in the US market the company has hired Edward King to lead this effort as VP Sales North America.
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Announces Executive Appointments (Jan. 12, 2009)
  Cesar Martin-Perez was named vice president and general manager of the Analog Business Group reporting to MIPS President and CEO John Bourgoin. Mark Pittman was appointed vice president of Asia Pacific sales, and Stefan Buechmann was named vice president of European sales.
  
  
• Christophe Guittard Joins VaST as Vice President/General Manager of Europe (Jan. 12, 2009)
  VaST today named Christophe Guittard as the Vice President and General Manager of VaST in Europe. Guittard joins VaST from Mentor Graphics, where he held the director of sales position in Europe for place & route technology, and brings more than 25 years experience in the semiconductor and electronics design automation industry.
  
  
• Cadence Appoints Lip-Bu Tan President and Chief Executive Officer (Jan. 09, 2009)
  Cadence Design Systems today announced that its Board of Directors has unanimously appointed Lip-Bu Tan as president and chief executive officer, effective immediately. Tan, who had been serving as interim vice chairman of the Board of Directors of Cadence® and member of the Interim Office of the Chief Executive, will remain a member of the Board.
  
  
• Tower Semiconductor Announces the Nomination of Amir Elstein as its New Chairman of the Board (Jan. 06, 2009)
  Tower Semiconductor today announced that its Board of Directors has nominated Amir Elstein to serve as the new Chairman of the Board. Elstein Brings 28 Years of Rich and Diverse Global Experience in the Industry, Recently in Intel and Teva Pharmaceutical Industries
  
  
• NXP Announces Appointment of Richard L. Clemmer as CEO (Dec. 31, 2008)
  NXP Semiconductors today announced the appointment of Richard L. Clemmer as President and CEO. Mr. Clemmer succeeds Frans van Houten who is leaving NXP. Clemmer will assume the new role on January 1, 2009.
  
  
• IP Industry Luminary Joins Sonics' Executive Team (Dec. 11, 2008)
  Sonics today announced Jack Browne has joined the company as senior vice president of sales and marketing. In this role, he will be responsible for increasing the company's customer and design footprint as well as its product development direction.
  
  
• eInfochips appoints Sarbpreet Singh as President & Head - Global Sales (Dec. 08, 2008)
  With over 20 years of experience in diverse industries such as microelectronics, networking, telecommunications software & EMS, Sarbpreet will lead the global sales & marketing efforts of the company. Sarbpreet will be based at the US headquarters of eInfochips.
  
  
• Steve Mollenkopf Named to GSA Board of Directors (Dec. 01, 2008)
  The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announces the addition of Steve Mollenkopf of Qualcomm Incorporated to GSA’s Board of Directors.