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• Wi-LAN Strengthens Management Team (Wednesday Oct. 10, 2007)
  Wi-LAN Inc. today announced it has added four new senior members to its management team: Derek Nuhn, Prashant Watchmaker, Dr. Robert Wu and Pia Diaconescu.
  
  
• Xilinx Appoints New Vice President & General Manager, Processing Solutions Group (Tuesday Oct. 09, 2007)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Vincent "Vin" Ratford, 56, has been promoted to vice president and general manager of the processing solutions group (PSG) from his current position as vice president of marketing, business development and silicon architecture for PSG.
  
  
• TSMC Appoints Yeon-Gun Jung Head of TSMC Korea (Monday Oct. 08, 2007)
  TSMC today announced the appointment of Yeon-Gun Jung as head of TSMC Korea. Mr. Jung joined TSMC beginning October 1 and is responsible for providing field technical support to Korean customers.
  
  
• videantis appoints Young-Hun Kluge VP Sales and Marketing (Monday Oct. 01, 2007)
  Mr. Kluge has more than 13 years IP business experience and joins videantis from Silicon Image, where he held the position of a Director in Sales and Marketing for IP business. His position was transformed from a three years VP Sales and Marketing position through the acquisition of sci-worx by Silicon Image in January this year.
  
  
• NemeriX appoints Managing Directors & Board Advisor (Monday Oct. 01, 2007)
  Leading A-GPS solution provider announces management team and board additions, following CHF 27m Series-C funding and in anticipation of new product release
  
  
• Lars Kruse Joins ChipVision as Chief Architect (Thursday Sep. 27, 2007)
  In this role, he is responsible for driving technology development of ChipVision's ORINOCO® low power design optimization EDA solution that helps companies achieve substantial power savings and complete their designs more quickly.
  
  
• Scaleo chip appoints Bruno Paucard as Chief Executive Officer (Wednesday Sep. 26, 2007)
  Scaleo chip, a European leader of System-on-Chips (SoC) with business in the automotive and consumer multimedia areas, announced today the appointment of Mr Bruno Paucard as CEO of the company. Mr Daniel Aufaure – former CEO of the company – will remain Chairman of the Board.
  
  
• MoSys, Inc. Appoints Michael Maia Vice President of Marketing (Thursday Sep. 20, 2007)
  Prior to joining the company, he was co-founder, vice president and general manager of PortalPlayer, which pioneered hard disk drive-based and high capacity flash-based portable media players.
  
  
• Dr. Ulrich Schumacher, new President and CEO of Grace Semiconductor (Thursday Sep. 20, 2007)
  The Board of Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation has named Dr. Ulrich Schumacher as the new President and CEO of the Company, effective September 15th, 2007. Dr. Schumacher will also be a Director of the Board of the Company.
  
  
• Dr James Wight joins KABEN as Chief Scientist Strengthening the company's management team (Friday Sep. 14, 2007)
  In his new role, Dr Wight will be responsible for spearheading Kaben’s development activities in innovative RF technologies.
  
  
• ViASIC Names Lynn Hayden President and CEO (Thursday Sep. 13, 2007)
  ViASIC is the first EDA company to offer semiconductor fabrics that are reconfigurable - both with and without static random access memory (SRAM) - with only one or two layers of metal.
  
  
• Cavendish Kinetics Names Richard Knipe VP of Engineering & CTO (Wednesday Sep. 12, 2007)
  Cavendish Kinetics, the Nanomech(tm) embedded non-volatile memory intellectual property (IP) company, announced today that Richard Knipe has joined the company as Vice President of Engineering and Chief Technology Officer.
  
  
• Kaben Wireless Silicon appoints Paul Slaby as Chairman (Thursday Aug. 30, 2007)
  As an accomplished high-tech executive and entrepreneur, Paul Slaby brings over 20 years of experience in starting, managing and growing technology companies. This includes his roles as founder and CEO of VoIPshield Systems and ATMOS Corporation, managing companies through organic growth and raising venture capital funding.
  
  
• Mobilygen Appoints Anoop Khurana as New VP Engineering (Thursday Aug. 30, 2007)
  Mobilygen, a leader in highdefinition H.264 video codec ICs, has appointed Anoop Khurana as Vice President of Engineering.
  
  
• Alchip Strengthens Executive Management Team Industry Veteran Jim Bailey Joins as Chief Operating Officer (Thursday Aug. 23, 2007)
  Bailey will be responsible for driving global business strategy,new business development and business operations in North America, Japan, China and Taiwan.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Appoints Nick Tredennick to its Board of Directors (Tuesday Aug. 21, 2007)
  Patriot Scientific Corporation today announced it has named Dr. Nick Tredennick to the company’s board of directors. Tredennick is an industry luminary and well-known authority on computers, microprocessors and semiconductor technology.
  
  
• Xilinx CEO Announces Retirement (Tuesday Aug. 07, 2007)
  Xilinx, Inc. today announced that Willem P. Roelandts, 62, President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board intends to retire from the positions of President and Chief Executive Officer
  
  
• ARM Appoints VP Of China Sales To Strengthen Support To The Chinese Market (Friday Jul. 13, 2007)
  ARM has appointed Mr. Allen Wu as vice president of China sales. Bringing more than fifteen years experience of processor and IP industry and a proven track record in sales and marketing, Allen will be responsible for leading and developing the sales teams of ARM® China.
  
  
• Kilopass Adds Jeannie Duncanson as CFO (Tuesday Jun. 26, 2007)
  Kilopass Technology, a leading provider of semiconductor non-volatile memory (NVM) intellectual property (IP), announced today that Jeannie Duncanson has joined the company as CFO, reporting to Bernie Aronson, CEO
  
  
• ARC International Appoints Steven Gunders As Non Executive Director (Thursday Jun. 21, 2007)
  ARC International today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Steven Gunders to the Board as a Non Executive Director. Gunders will become Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit Committee.
  
  
• MOSAID Signs Two Seasoned Executives as Intellectual Property Licensing Consultants (Thursday Jun. 14, 2007)
  MOSAID today announced that Roger Stricker and Ted Galanthay will provide consulting services to the Company on patent licensing and other matters related to asserting the Company's intellectual property rights.
  
  
• Charlie Hauck Assumes CEO Role at Bluespec (Tuesday Jun. 12, 2007)
  Charlie Hauck today was named Chief Executive Officer (CEO) at Bluespec Inc., developer of the only electronic system level (ESL) synthesis for control logic and complex datapaths in chip design. He succeeds Shiv Tasker, who assumes the role of chairman.
  
  
• MOSAID Announces Changes to Board of Directors (Friday Jun. 08, 2007)
  MOSAID Technologies Inc., today announced Mr. Normand Paquette and Mr. Barry J. Reiter have been appointed to the Company's Board of Directors.
  
  
• Virage Logic Strengthens Executive Management Team with Two Key Appointments (Friday Jun. 08, 2007)
  Virage Logic today announced the strengthening of its management team with the appointment of Pete Rodriguez as chief marketing officer and Kamalesh Ruparel as vice president of silicon technology.
  
  
• Patriot Scientific Names Jim Turley as President and CEO (Tuesday Jun. 05, 2007)
  Turley succeeds David Pohl as chief executive; Pohl retains his position as the company's chairman of the board. The appointment is effective June 5th.
  
  
• Arithmatica Appoints New CEO (Wednesday May. 30, 2007)
  Arithmatica today announced the appointment of Dan Ganousis as CEO. Mr. Ganousis's most recent EDA position was CEO of AccelChip
  
  
• Wi-LAN Announces the Addition of Paul Richman and Rick Shorkey to its Board of Directors (Wednesday May. 16, 2007)
  At a board meeting last Thursday, Mr. Shorkey was appointed Chairman of the Audit Committee and Mr. Richman was appointed Chairman of the Compensation Committee. To accommodate their appointments, the Board has been increased from six to seven members.
  
  
• MOSAID Announces Three Senior Appointments (Tuesday May. 15, 2007)
  MOSAID Technologies, a leading intellectual property company, today continued to build its management team with the announcement of three senior appointments.
  
  
• Wi-LAN Strengthens Management Team (Friday May. 04, 2007)
  Wi-LAN today announced it has added four new senior members to its team: Andrew Parolin, Curtis Dodd, Vipin Aggarwal and Bob Kedrosky
  
  
• Coresonic strengthens board of directors; Successful technology entrepreneurs Tim Unger and Alain Fanet are nominated to Coresonic's board of directors (Wednesday May. 02, 2007)
  Coresonic AB, a leading provider of baseband processor technology, announces the nomination of industry-renowned entrepreneurs Tim Unger and Alain Fanet to the Coresonic board of directors. Each brings strong records of successful experience in starting high-tech semiconductor businesses.