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• Octasic Inc. Appoints New Chief Executive Officer (Tuesday 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 (Monday May. 11, 2009)
  Former JPMorgan Head of Semiconductor Investment Banking joins Kilopass to drive its strategic growth plan
  
  
• ARC International plc Board Changes (Wednesday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Thursday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday 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 (Friday 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 (Tuesday 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 (Wednesday 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 (Thursday 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 (Monday 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 (Monday Dec. 01, 2008)
  The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA) announces the addition of Steve Mollenkopf of Qualcomm Incorporated to GSA’s Board of Directors.
  
  
• Cadence Announces Appointments of R&D and Worldwide Field Operations Leaders (Friday Nov. 21, 2008)
  Cadence Design Systems today announced the promotion of three senior leaders to executive management positions in R&D and Worldwide Sales and Field Operations. All three positions report to the Interim Office of the Chief Executive.
  
  
• Schild Joins Embedded Memory Leader Sidense as Vice President of Sales (Tuesday Nov. 18, 2008)
  Sidense, today announced the appointment of Tom Schild as the company’s new Vice President of Sales. Mr. Schild has more than 20 years of semiconductor experience, most recently at Virage Logic where he was VP of Sales for Asia.
  
  
• Silicon Clocks Appoints Semiconductor IP and MEMS Veteran Didier Lacroix as CEO (Friday Nov. 14, 2008)
  Lacroix, a veteran of the semiconductor IP and MEMS (Microelectrical Mechanical Systems) industry, leads Silicon Clocks into a new phase of growth by pursuing a pure IP licensing model for its CMEMSTM technology.
  
  
• Kilopass Technology Announces Charlie Cheng as the New CEO (Monday Oct. 27, 2008)
  Kilopass Technology today announced the appointment of Charlie Cheng as its new Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• LogicVision Reports Management Changes (Wednesday Oct. 15, 2008)
  The three departing executives are Bruce M. Jaffe, Vice President, Finance and CFO, Farhad Hayat, Vice President, Marketing, and Ronald H. Mabry, Vice President, Field Operations and Application Engineering.
  
  
• Former Samsung Multimedia Lab Chief Joins Denali's Executive Team (Tuesday Oct. 14, 2008)
  Dr. Stephen Oh to Serve as Vice President of Platform Business Development
  
  
• Xilinx Senior Executive, Patrick Little, Joins Fast Growing eASIC As New CEO (Monday Oct. 13, 2008)
  Little joins eASIC from Xilinx, where he served as Senior Vice President of Products and Market Development. Little succeeds Ronnie Vasishta, who remains as President and will assume the additional responsibility of Chief Operation Officer (COO).