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• Aware, Inc. Appoints Keith Farris As Chief Financial Officer (Wednesday May. 31, 2006)
  Aware, Inc. (NASDAQ: AWRE), a worldwide leader and innovator of broadband intellectual property, today announced that Keith Farris has joined the company as vice president and chief financial officer. Previous CFO Rob Weiskopf is departing to pursue other
  
  
• ARM Holdings PLC - Board Changes (Wednesday May. 24, 2006)
  Sir Robin Saxby, founding chief executive officer of processor technology licensing company ARM Holdings plc and currently chairman, is to retire from the board of directors of the company. He is to be succeeded by semiconductor industry veteran Doug Dunn
  
  
• Impinj Appoints Renowned Executives to Board of Directors (Monday May. 22, 2006)
  Impinj, Inc., the number one supplier of Gen 2 RFID chips and a market leader in embedded nonvolatile memories, today announced that former Presidential advisor, General Ronald R. Fogleman, USAF, (Ret.), and semiconductor industry veteran, Dr. Albert Y. C
  
  
• Wi-LAN announces James Skippen as CEO; Company hires MOSAID Technologies head of Patent Licensing (Wednesday May. 17, 2006)
  Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX:WIN) (Wi-LAN or the Company) today announced that Mr. James (Jim) Skippen has accepted the position of President and Chief Executive Officer of Wi-LAN. Mr. Skippen will also be joining the Wi-LAN Board of Directors
  
  
• MOSAID Announces Resignation of its General Counsel (Tuesday May. 16, 2006)
  OSAID Technologies Incorporated (TSX:MSD) today announced that James Skippen, Senior Vice President, Patent Licensing and General Counsel, will be resigning from his position with MOSAID effective June 19, 2006. Mr. Skippen will be leaving to take on the
  
  
• UMC Names Raymond Leung Vice President of Memory IP Development (Monday May. 15, 2006)
  UMC, a leading global semiconductor foundry, today announced that Raymond Leung has joined the company as vice president of Memory IP Development. The creation of this new position will strengthen UMC's internal embedded memory development capabilities at
  
  
• Transmeta Corporation Announces CFO Transition Plan (Tuesday May. 09, 2006)
  Transmeta Corporation (NASDAQ: TMTA), the leader in efficient computing technologies, today announced that Mark R. Kent, the Company's chief financial officer, plans to resign following the filing of the Company's Form 10-Q for the first quarter ended Mar
  
  
• Innovative Silicon Inc. Creates Technology Advisory Board (Thursday May. 04, 2006)
  Innovative Silicon Inc. (ISi), the developer of Z-RAM® high density memory IP, today announced that it has recruited semiconductor memory and Silicon on Insulator (SOI) luminaries Dr. Jean-Pierre Colinge, Dr. Michel J. Declercq, Dr. Richard C. Foss, Dr. C
  
  
• Virage Logic Announces Resignation of CFO -- Chairman Dan McCranie to Serve as Interim CFO (Thursday May. 04, 2006)
  Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq:VIRL), a pioneer in Silicon Aware IP(TM) and leading provider of semiconductor intellectual property (IP) platforms, today announced the resignation of its Chief Financial Officer (CFO), Jens Meyerhoff, in order to pursue
  
  
• CoWare Expands European Sales Team With Addition of Hubert Wolters (Wednesday May. 03, 2006)
  CoWare Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced that Hubert Wolters has joined the company as senior sales director for Central and Northern Europe reporting to Mike Faust, CoWare'
  
  
• Rambus Appoints First Fellow (Tuesday May. 02, 2006)
  Rambus (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today announced it has appointed Craig Hampel to the company’s highest technical position, Rambus Fellow. Hampel is the company’s f
  
  
• LSI Names Robert Payne Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer (Monday May. 01, 2006)
  LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today announced that it has named Robert L. Payne to the post of senior vice president and chief technology officer. He will report to Abhi Talwalkar, LSI president and chief executive officer.
  
  
• VSIA Board Elects Freescale's Kathy Werner as New President (Tuesday Apr. 25, 2006)
  The VSI Alliance (VSIA), the leading Semiconductor IP standards organization, today announced that its Board of Directors unanimously elected Freescale Semiconductor’s Kathy Werner as VSIA President
  
  
• Toumaz Appoints New CEO (Friday Apr. 21, 2006)
  Nanoscience Inc, the specialist nanotechnology investment holding company, is pleased to announce that its subsidiary, Toumaz Technologies Ltd, has appointed Dr. Ian Lindsay McWalter as Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• Xilinx Executive Vice President Rich Sevcik Retires (Monday Apr. 17, 2006)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX) today announced that Rich Sevcik, 58, is retiring on May 15 as executive vice president and member of the board of directors, after nearly a decade with the company. Wim Roelandts, Xilinx chairman, president and CEO, will assum
  
  
• ViASIC Appoints Lynn Hayden to Board of Directors (Friday Apr. 14, 2006)
  ViASIC, the leading provider in standard metal fabric for IC design, today announced that Lynn Hayden, former founder of Coiltronics, has been elected to its Board of Directors and will serve as Chairman of the Board.
  
  
• Rambus Appoints Chief Financial Officer (Wednesday Apr. 12, 2006)
  Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today announced it has appointed Mr. Satish Rishi to the position of senior vice president, finance and chief financial office
  
  
• David Fritz Promoted to CEO of Silistix (Thursday Apr. 06, 2006)
  Silistix, a provider of EDA tools for on-chip communications solutions, today announced the promotion of David Fritz from vice president of marketing to Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company
  
  
• eASIC Names Kaushik Banerjee Vice President of Engineering (Tuesday Apr. 04, 2006)
  ASIC Corporation, a provider of Programmable ASIC products including Configurable Logic IP, today announced the appointment of Kaushik Banerjee to the position of Vice President of Engineering. In this role, Mr. Banerjee will lead the development of the c
  
  
• Badar Baqai to Lead LSI Logic IP Products and Solutions Organization (Thursday Mar. 30, 2006)
  LSI Logic Corporation (NYSE: LSI) today appointed Badar Baqai as Vice President Engineering of the IP Products and Solutions organization within Custom Solutions Group Marketing. As part of the company's initiative to become a market-focused provider, Baq
  
  
• TSMC Appoints Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu as Vice President of Design and Technology Platform (Wednesday Mar. 29, 2006)
  TSMC today announced the appointment of Dr. Fu-Chieh Hsu as Vice President of Design and Technology Platform. Dr. Hsu will be responsible for all design service operations at TSMC and provide customers with technology platform solutions together with Mark
  
  
• Rambus Appoints Dr. Sunlin Chou to its Board of Directors (Tuesday Mar. 28, 2006)
  Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today announced that Dr. Sunlin Chou has been appointed to its board of directors. Dr. Chou will also be nominated for electio
  
  
• Industry Leader Joins Tahoe RF Semiconductor; Tom Riordan appointed to seat on Board of Directors (Monday Mar. 27, 2006)
  Tahoe RF Semiconductor, Inc., the leading wireless Electronic Design Services (EDS) provider, today announced that Tom Riordan has joined its board of directors, joining Larry Larson, Professor at U.C. San Diego; Don Levy, a semiconductor industry veteran
  
  
• Monolithic System Technology, Inc. Appoints James Pekarsky as Chief Financial Officer (Friday Mar. 24, 2006)
  MoSys, Inc., the industry's leading provider of high-density system-on-chip (SoC) embedded memory solutions announced today the appointment of Jim Pekarsky as its Vice President of Finance and Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Mr. Pekarsky will be responsibl
  
  
• Virage Logic Continues to Strengthen Management Team and Board for Operational Excellence and Scalability; J. Daniel McCranie Becomes Executive Chairman; Cathal Phelan Joins Board of Directors (Thursday Mar. 23, 2006)
  Virage Logic Corporation (Nasdaq:VIRL), a pioneer in Silicon Aware IP(TM) and leading provider of semiconductor IP platforms, today announced the continued strengthening of its management team and board of directors with two key appointments. J. Daniel (D
  
  
• Mark Pinto Resigns From Rambus Board Of Directors (Thursday Mar. 23, 2006)
  Mark Pinto Resigns From Rambus Board Of Directors
  
  
• Chipidea Appoints European IT Veteran as Chief Financial Officer (Monday Mar. 20, 2006)
  Botte to Maintain Sound Financial Practices as Company Continues Leadership Role in Analog/Mixed Signal Intellectual Property
  
  
• CoWare Expands Senior Management Team With Addition of Two New Executives: Tim Smith and Mike Faust (Wednesday Mar. 15, 2006)
  CoWare(R) Inc., the leading supplier of platform-driven electronic system-level (ESL) design software and services, announced that Tim Smith has joined the company as vice president of worldwide sales, reporting to CoWare president and CEO, Alan Naumann.
  
  
• MnD appoints Ian Walsh as CEO (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  Ian Walsh, who has over 20 years’ experience in the semiconductor and embedded software industries, has been appointed as CEO of French fabless semiconductor company, MnD
  
  
• Kobi Rozengarten Appointed to Saifun Semiconductors' Board of Directors (Wednesday Mar. 08, 2006)
  Saifun Semiconductors Ltd. (NASDAQ: SFUN), a leading provider of intellectual property solutions for the non-volatile memory (NVM) market, today announced that effective immediately, Kobi Rozengarten, President, has been appointed to serve on the Board of