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• Arasan Chip Systems appoints Director of Analog and Mixed Signal (Monday Jan. 31, 2011)
  Arasan Chip Systems, Inc. (“Arasan”), a leading provider of Total Semiconductor IP Solutions, Arasan Chip Systems announced the appointment of Mike Kliment, as the Director of Analog and Mixed Signal. Mr. Kliment is a veteran in the Semiconductor Industry with 25+ years of experience in Analog and Mixed Signal design.
  
  
• Alvand Technologies announced that it has appointed John Patterson as Director of Sales & Marketing (Monday Jan. 17, 2011)
  Alvand Technologies announced that it has appointed John Patterson as Director of Sales & Marketing on January 10, 2011. Mr. Patterson is one of the most accomplished and well-respected sales and customer relationship builders in the Data Convector.
  
  
• AMD Appoints Thomas Seifert as Interim CEO; Dirk Meyer Resigns in Mutual Agreement with Board of Directors (Monday Jan. 10, 2011)
  AMD today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Senior Vice President and CFO Thomas Seifert, 47, as interim CEO following the resignation of Dirk Meyer, 49, as president, CEO and a director of the company effective immediately.
  
  
• Kaben Wireless Silicon appoints Ian Roane as CEO (Friday Jan. 07, 2011)
  Kaben Wireless Silicon announced today the appointment of Ian Roane as its Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• Walden International Chairman & Founder Lip-Bu Tan joins the Cosmic Circuits Board of Directors (Friday Jan. 07, 2011)
  Cosmic Circuits today announced that it has appointed Lip-Bu Tan to its board of directors. Lip-Bu Tan is Chairman and Founder of Walden International (WI) and has been active in the venture capital industry for the past two decades.
  
  
• Cambridge Analog Technologies Appoints Semiconductor IP Veteran Didier Lacroix to Advisory Board (Wednesday Dec. 08, 2010)
  Cambridge Analog Technologies announced the appointment of Didier Lacroix to its advisory board. Lacroix, a veteran of the semiconductor IP industry, brings a wealth of experience to Cambridge Analog.
  
  
• eSilicon names Lawrence Conrad as general manager of Semiconductor Manufacturing Services business unit (Thursday Dec. 02, 2010)
  eSilicon Corporation today announced it has hired Lawrence Conrad as vice president and general manager for its recently formed Semiconductor Manufacturing Services (SMS) business unit.
  
  
• Physware Names Former Synopsys CTO Raul Camposano as CEO (Tuesday Nov. 30, 2010)
  Physware, a leading provider of scalable and parallel solutions for Signal Integrity (SI), Power Integrity (PI), Electromagnetic Interference (EMI) and Simultaneous Noise Integrity (SNI), today announced the appointment of Dr. Raul Camposano as Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• Semiconductor Veteran and Former AMD CTO Fred Weber Joins MIPS Technologies' Board of Directors (Friday Nov. 12, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that industry veteran and former AMD CTO Frederick D. Weber, once named one of the 25 most influential CTOs by InfoWorld Magazine, has joined its Board of Directors.
  
  
• Rambus Names Bruce Sohn Director of Korea Office (Thursday Nov. 04, 2010)
  Rambus today announced that Bruce Sohn has joined as Director of Business Development for Rambus Korea. In this position, Mr. Sohn will be responsible for the overall management and direction of Rambus' strategic customer and partner relationships in Korea.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Appoints Darin Billerbeck President and CEO (Tuesday Oct. 12, 2010)
  Lattice today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Darin G. Billerbeck as the Company's President and Chief Executive Officer, effective November 8, 2010. Billerbeck, a 30 year technology industry veteran with Intel and AMD, most recently served as the Chief Executive Officer of Zilog, which was acquired by IXYS Corporation.
  
  
• Cadence Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition Plan (Tuesday Sep. 28, 2010)
  Cadence today announced that Geoff Ribar, chief financial officer of Telegent Systems, Inc., will be appointed senior vice president and chief financial officer of Cadence effective on or about November 1, 2010. Kevin S. Palatnik is leaving the company to pursue other interests.
  
  
• Arteris Appoints Kurt Shuler As Director of Marketing (Thursday Sep. 23, 2010)
  Arteris Inc., a leading supplier of on-chip interconnect IP solutions, today announced the appointment of Kurt Shuler as the company’s Director of Marketing. Mr. Shuler, a veteran of the semiconductor and IP industries, will lead all aspects of marketing including planning, developing and implementing Arteris’ marketing strategy, communications and public relations.
  
  
• TSMC's design guru resigns (Monday Sep. 20, 2010)
  Fu-Chieh Hsu, vice president of the Design and Technology Platform unit and deputy head of R&D at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), has quietly resigned.
  
  
• Evatronix Appoints Country Manager in Mainland China to Enhance Worldwide Customer Support (Tuesday Aug. 17, 2010)
  Evatronix SA, today announced the appointment of Alex Zeng to become the country manager in Beijing in order to optimize the support for the growing number of Evatronix customers in mainland China
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces Resignation of CEO Effective September 4; Appoints Christopher Fanning as Interim CEO (Monday Aug. 09, 2010)
  Lattice today announced that Bruno Guilmart has resigned as President and CEO effective September 4, 2010 to pursue other opportunities. Mr. Guilmart is also resigning as a director and tendered his resignation on August 5, 2010.
  
  
• Dr. I. C. Chen Joins UMC as Vice President (Thursday Jul. 08, 2010)
  UMC today announced that Dr. Ih Chin Chen has joined the company as vice president of Advanced Technology Development, sharing the responsibility with current division vice president S. C. Chien for the development of advanced technologies at UMC.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Promotes Taher Madraswala to Vice President of Engineering (Tuesday Jun. 22, 2010)
  Open-Silicon today announced the promotion of Taher Madraswala to Vice President of Engineering. He will continue driving the on-time execution of customers’ SoC and ASIC design and development programs.
  
  
• eASIC Appoints Richard Heye as Chief Operating Officer (Wednesday Jun. 16, 2010)
  eASIC today announced that Richard Heye has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer (COO). Heye brings 30 years of executive management, engineering and operations experience from within the semiconductor industry.
  
  
• Duolog Technologies Appoints New Vice President of North American Sales (Tuesday Jun. 15, 2010)
  Duolog Technologies today announced that it has appointed Joe Hee as Vice President of North American Sales.
  
  
• Tiempo Names EDA Industry Veteran Steve Svoboda VP of Business Development as Company Expands to US to Address Demand for Innovative Clockless Chip Design Technology (Monday Jun. 14, 2010)
  Tiempo, SAS, a developer of innovative clockless technology for the design of low power integrated circuits (ICs), today announced it has named EDA industry veteran Steve Svoboda as Vice President of Business Development.
  
  
• Tensilica Expands Wireless Baseband Business Unit, Hires Texas Instruments Veteran Eric Dewannain as Vice President/General Manager (Tuesday Jun. 08, 2010)
  Tensilica today announced that it has expanded its baseband business unit and hired Eric F. Dewannain as vice president and general manager. Dewannain was previously general manager of the custom ASIC business unit at Texas Instruments, Incorporated (TI) and, prior to this, general manager of the cable broadband communications business unit.
  
  
• Duolog Technologies Appoints New General Manager of Integration Services (Thursday Jun. 03, 2010)
  Duolog Technologies today announced that it has appointed Cesar Matias as General Manager of Integration Services.
  
  
• Virage Logic Appoints Industry Executive to Board of Directors (Thursday May. 27, 2010)
  Virage Logic announced the appointment of Manoj Gujral to the company's Board of Directors. Gujral, with more than 23 years of semiconductor industry experience, currently serves as Vice President and General Manager, Broadband and Consumer Division of Cavium Networks.
  
  
• FPGA Sales Pioneer Steve Haynes Joins Tabula as VP Worldwide Sales (Monday Apr. 26, 2010)
  Tabula, a privately held fabless semiconductor company that has developed a new category of 3-D Programmable Logic Devices (3PLDs), today announced that FPGA sales pioneer Steve Haynes has joined the Company's executive team as VP Worldwide Sales.
  
  
• Cycleo Hires VP of Sales and Extends its Reach into North America (Thursday Apr. 08, 2010)
  Cycleo, a provider of semiconductor IP targeting wireless long range applications, today announced the appointment of François Sforza to the position of Cycleo VP of Sales. Cycleo also announced that it has engaged EDA Sales Inc as its distributor for the USA (West Coast).
  
  
• MIPS Technologies Names Ravikrishna Cherukuri Vice President of Engineering (Tuesday Mar. 30, 2010)
  MIPS Technologies today announced that it has named Ravikrishna Cherukuri vice president of engineering. Mr. Cherukuri has a deep background in microprocessors and software solutions with companies including AMD, Nexgen Microsystem, Siara Systems and Sonoa Systems.
  
  
• Lighting and Display Industry Leaders Join Rambus (Wednesday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Wednesday Feb. 17, 2010)
  eSilicon today announced the appointment of Ajay Lalwani as vice president, strategic sourcing, a new and key position at the company.