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• New Wave Design and Verification Appoints New President (Thursday Nov. 05, 2020)
  ew Wave Design and Verification (New Wave DV) is proud to announce the addition of Mark Swymeler as its President. He joins New Wave DV’s newly expanded executive team, a direct result of several years of rapid growth.
  
  
• SmartDV Appoints Karthik Gopal as Asia General Manager (Thursday Oct. 22, 2020)
  SmartDV™ Technologies, the Proven and Trusted choice for Verification and Design Intellectual Property (IP), today appointed Karthik Gopal to the newly created role general manager of Asia. Gopal will have responsibility for sales and operations in China, Hong Kong and Taiwan.
  
  
• Synopsys Names Shankar Krishnamoorthy General Manager of the Digital Design Group (Tuesday Oct. 13, 2020)
  Synopsys, Inc. today announced that Shankar Krishnamoorthy has been promoted to GM of the Digital Design Group. Krishnamoorthy, who rejoined Synopsys in 2017, is an electronic design automation veteran with 25 years of experience bringing to market high-value, market-leading physical design and logic synthesis solutions.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. Announces new CEO Simon Beresford-Wylie (Monday Oct. 05, 2020)
  Imagination Technologies announces today that Simon Beresford-Wylie is to become Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• SiFive Appoints Patrick Little as President and Chief Executive Officer (Thursday Sep. 17, 2020)
  SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V-based platforms and custom silicon solutions, today announced the appointment of Patrick Little as President and CEO, effective immediately.
  
  
• videantis appoints Stephan Janouch as marketing director (Thursday Sep. 17, 2020)
  videantis GmbH, a leading supplier of deep learning, computer vision and video coding solutions, today announced the appointment of Stephan Janouch as the new Marketing Director.
  
  
• Imagination appoints Sir Peter Bonfield to board as non-executive director (Monday Sep. 14, 2020)
  Imagination Technologies announces the appointment of Sir Peter Bonfield to the Company’s board as a non-executive director. Sir Peter Bonfield has more than 50 years of experience in the international technology business and has has served on the boards of 12 international technology companies, including Sony, NXP, Mentor Graphics and Ericsson.
  
  
• Kushagra Vaid Joins Flex Logix's Board of Directors (Thursday Sep. 10, 2020)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., a leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) and AI Inference IP, chips, boards and software, today announced that it has appointed industry-veteran Kushagra Vaid as an independent member to its Board of Directors.
  
  
• Synopsys Appoints Jeannine Sargent to Board of Directors (Wednesday Sep. 02, 2020)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced the appointment of Jeannine Sargent to its board of directors, effective today. Ms. Sargent is an experienced corporate executive and board member, with a background in global business and product strategy, engineering, operations, and sales and marketing
  
  
• Synopsys Appoints Sassine Ghazi as Chief Operating Officer (Thursday Aug. 20, 2020)
  Synopsys, Inc. (Nasdaq: SNPS) today announced that Sassine Ghazi has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer. Ghazi, who joined Synopsys in 1998, brings multiple decades of experience in chip design, applications engineering, customer support, sales, and business management.
  
  
• Semiconductor Industry Luminary Fred Weber Joins Movellus as Corporate Advisor (Tuesday Aug. 18, 2020)
  Movellus today announced that Fred Weber has joined its Board of Advisors. Mr. Weber will help with Movellus’ mission to deliver architectural innovations, initially in the areas of clock generation and distribution, to the high performance SoC, processor, and AI markets.
  
  
• BrainChip Inc Appoints Vice President of Worldwide Sales (Thursday Aug. 13, 2020)
  BrainChip Holdings Ltd. (ASX: BRN), a leading provider of ultra-low power high performance AI technology, today announced that Rob Telson has joined the Company as Vice President of Worldwide Sales.
  
  
• Greg Lang Joins Rambus Board of Directors (Monday Aug. 03, 2020)
  Rambus Inc., a premier silicon IP and chip provider dedicated to delivering data faster and safer, today announced the appointment of Greg Lang to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  
  
• Carlos Mazure, EVP of Soitec and Chairman of the SOI Industry Consortium, Joins Silvaco Board of Directors (Thursday Jul. 23, 2020)
  Silvaco Inc., a leading supplier of EDA software and design IP, today announced that Carlos Mazure has joined the company’s board of directors.
  
  
• Kandou Appoints Jeff Winzeler CFO (Thursday Jul. 16, 2020)
  Kandou, an innovative leader in high-speed, energy-efficient, chip link solutions, today named Jeff Winzeler Chief Financial Officer (CFO), reporting to Dr. Amin Shokrollahi, its Founder and Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• Dr. Walden Rhines Joins Cornami as President and CEO (Wednesday Jul. 15, 2020)
  Cornami is pleased to announce that Dr. Walden Rhines has joined the company as president and chief executive officer (CEO). Dr. Rhines is responsible for the technology development and deployment of its unique real-time scalable compute technology, as well as day-to-day operations.
  
  
• UltraSoC appoints Jonathan Lucas as VP of Software (Monday May. 18, 2020)
  UltraSoC has announced the appointment of Jonathan Lucas as VP of Software. His 30 years of software engineering and senior management experience, with specific strengths in embedded and machine-learning systems, will support the application of the company’s analytics technology in emerging data-centric applications including automotive and cybersecurity.
  
  
• Louis Tannyeres, Former Senior Fellow at Texas Instruments, Appointed Executive Vice-President of Engineering at Kalray (Thursday May. 14, 2020)
  Kalray, a pioneer in processors for new intelligent systems, today announces that Louis Tannyeres has been appointed Executive Vice-President of Engineering.
  
  
• Xilinx Appoints Brice Hill as Chief Financial Officer (Thursday Apr. 09, 2020)
  Xilinx, Inc. (NASDAQ: XLNX), the leader in adaptive and intelligent computing, today announced it has appointed Brice Hill to the position of executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO), effective immediately.
  
  
• Leading Industry Veteran Joins SiFive as Chief Financial Officer (Thursday Apr. 02, 2020)
  SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Shubham “Sam” Maheshwari has joined the company as Chief Financial Officer (CFO). Maheshwari will lead SiFive financial operations to enable sustainable company growth in support of industry needs and new market opportunities.
  
  
• Cadence Elects Ita Brennan and Lewis Chew to Board of Directors (Tuesday Mar. 17, 2020)
  Cadence Design Systems, Inc. (Nasdaq: CDNS) today announced the election of Ita Brennan and Lewis Chew to its board of directors, effective March 15, 2020.
  
  
• Blu Wireless appoints Alan Jones as new Chief Executive Officer (Monday Mar. 02, 2020)
  Blu Wireless, have today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Alan Jones as Chief Executive Officer and member of the Board of Directors, to lead the company in an exciting commercial growth phase effective since early February.
  
  
• Movellus Names Semiconductor Industry Veteran Ken Wagner to Lead Engineering Team (Thursday Feb. 20, 2020)
  Movellus, a leader in design-optimized, process portable “analog” IP technology, today announced the appointment of Dr. Ken Wagner as Vice President of Engineering.
  
  
• Former Google and Tesla Engineer Chris Lattner to Lead SiFive Platform (Monday Jan. 27, 2020)
  Lattner brings 15 years of leadership in software engineering and machine learning infrastructure, leading teams at Apple, Tesla, and most recently, Google. He is credited for authoring Clang, the compiler front-end, and LLVM, the compiler infrastructure open source project.
  
  
• Ciaran Kennedy and Himesh Soneji join Enyx (Thursday Jan. 23, 2020)
  Enyx, a leading developer and provider of ultra-low latency technologies and solutions for the financial industry, today announced that Ciaran Kennedy and Himesh Soneji have joined Enyx as the VP of Business Development for North America and Europe, respectively.
  
  
• Erwan Menard, Director of Infrastructure and Applications Modernization Solutions at Google Cloud, Joins Kalray Board of Directors (Friday Jan. 17, 2020)
  Kalray today announced that the Board of Directors of the company has appointed Erwan Menard, among the world’s leading experts in Storage for Cloud and Enterprise businesses, as an independent Board Member.
  
  
• Vidatronic Appoints New Member to Its Board of Directors (Thursday Dec. 19, 2019)
  Vidatronic, Inc., a leading provider of analog Intellectual Property (IP) licenses including power management unit (PMU), CMOS radio frequency (RF), and LED driver solutions for system on a chip (SoC) integration, announced the appointment of Jacob Jacobsson to its board of directors.
  
  
• Industry Veteran Randy Allen Joins SiFive as Vice President of RISC-V Software (Wednesday Dec. 11, 2019)
  SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Randy Allen has joined the company as vice president of RISC-V software.
  
  
• Tech Industry Heavyweight Joins SiFive - Manoj Gujral Tapped As SVP & GM of Silicon Business Unit (Monday Dec. 09, 2019)
  SiFive, Inc., the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today announced that Manoj Gujral has joined the company as senior vice president and co-general manager of the SiFive silicon business unit.
  
  
• New Vidatronic CTO to Innovate and Scale Technology (Friday Dec. 06, 2019)
  Vidatronic, Inc., a leading provider of analog Intellectual Property (IP) licenses including power management unit (PMU), CMOS radio frequency (RF), and LED driver solutions for system on a chip (SoC) integration, is delighted to have Michael Nix now serving as Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of the company.