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• GUC President Jim Lai Announces Retirement (Wednesday Aug. 10, 2016)
  Jim Lai, President of Global Unichip Corp. (GUC), the Flexible ASIC LeaderTM, announced his retirement during a Board of Directors meeting on August 4. He cited personal reasons for his decision.
  
  
• Flex Logix Appoints Tony Kozaczuk as Director of Solutions Architecture (Monday Aug. 08, 2016)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., the leading developer of reconfigurable RTL IP cores and software, today announced that Tony Kozaczuk has been hired as the company's new director of solutions architecture.
  
  
• Pierre Lamond Joins Flex Logix's Board of Directors (Monday Aug. 01, 2016)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., the leading developer of reconfigurable RTL IP cores and software, today announced that it has appointed industry-veteran and Eclipse Ventures General Partner Pierre Lamond to its board of directors, effective immediately.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Strengthens Management Team With Key Executive Appointments (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2016)
  Mark Wright, former President of Faraday Technology Corporation, USA, will serve as Senior Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Open-Silicon, and Anam Haque, former Vice President of Engineering for Synapse Design, has been appointed Vice President of Silicon Engineering.
  
  
• IP Pioneer Mark Templeton Dies (Tuesday Jul. 26, 2016)
  Mark Templeton, a co-founder and former president at intellectual property supplier Artisan Components Inc., died last week in a kayaking accident. He was 57.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints Wallace Pai as General Manager to Oversee China Business Development (Monday Jul. 25, 2016)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced that Wallace Pai has been appointed as vice president and general manager of China. Pai will be responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction in China as it expands its presence and customer base in the region.
  
  
• Omni Design Appoints Three Distinguished Leaders from Industry and Academia to Advisory Board (Thursday Jun. 23, 2016)
  Omni Design Technologies, Inc. announced the appointment of three distinguished leaders from industry and academia to their advisory board: Professor Anantha Chandrakasan, Head of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Dr. Dirk Laukien, President and CEO of Black Forest Ventures, and Venktesh Shukla, Chairman, TiE Global and General Partner at Monta Vista Capital.
  
  
• Rambus Chief Financial Officer Satish Rishi to Retire in August (Wednesday May. 25, 2016)
  
  
  
• Xilinx Appoints Saar Gillai, Ron Jankov, and Tom Lee to its Board of Directors (Tuesday May. 17, 2016)
  Xilinx today announced it has appointed Saar Gillai, Ron Jankov, and Tom Lee to serve on the Xilinx Board of Directors. The new members bring added diversity in industry, technology, and market expertise aligned to Xilinx's growth strategy.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Adds Alain Mutricy as Head of Product Management Group (Friday Mar. 04, 2016)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today that Alain Mutricy has joined the company as senior vice president of the Product Management Group. In this role, Mutricy is responsible for the company’s leading edge and mainstream technology solutions and go-to-market activities for these differentiated products.
  
  
• UltraSoC forms strategic advisory board with four industry leaders (Thursday Jan. 28, 2016)
  UltraSoC today announced that four distinguished technology business leaders have joined its Strategic Advisory Board. The new members – Simon Davidmann, Guillaume d’Eyssautier, Vijay Dube and Professor David May – bring a wealth of knowledge and experience to the company.
  
  
• Sidense Hires Industry Veteran Ken Wagner as Senior VP Engineering (Thursday Jan. 21, 2016)
  Sidense today announced that Ken Wagner has joined Sidense as the Company’s Senior Vice President of Engineering. Ken will be reporting to Sidense President and CEO Xerxes Wania and will assume responsibility for all of Sidense's engineering activities.
  
  
• Flex Logix Appoints Andy Jaros as VP Sales (Tuesday Jan. 05, 2016)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., innovative developer of patented FPGA-in-SoC technology, announced today that Andy Jaros has joined the company as Vice President of Sales.
  
  
• Flex Logix Appoints Abhijit Abhyankar as VP Silicon Engineering (Tuesday Dec. 01, 2015)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., innovative developer of patented FPGA-in-SoC technology, announced today that Abhijit Abhyankar has joined the company as Vice President of Silicon Engineering.
  
  
• Rambus Announces Executive Management Changes (Thursday Nov. 12, 2015)
  Luc Seraphin appointed to GM of Memory and Interfaces Division; Kit Rodgers to serve as SVP of Worldwide Sales and Technology Partnerships
  
  
• Lip-Bu Tan Joins Aquantia Board of Directors (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015)
  Aquantia today announced it has appointed Lip-Bu Tan to its Board of Directors. Lip-Bu Tan, the CEO and President of Cadence Design Systems, is also the Founder and Chairman of Walden International, a venture capital firm that manages over $2 billion in investment funds.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Names Bami Bastani as Senior Vice President of its RF Business Unit (Tuesday Oct. 06, 2015)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES, a leading provider of advanced semiconductor manufacturing technology, today appointed Bami Bastani as senior vice president of its Radio Frequency (RF) Business Unit.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure appoints Amedeo D'Angelo as President and Chief Executive Officer (Wednesday Sep. 30, 2015)
  INSIDE Secure, a leader in embedded security solutions for mobile and connected devices, announces the appointment of Amedeo D’Angelo as President and Chief Executive Officer, replacing Rémy de Tonnac in this position, effective immediately.
  
  
• Ultra low-power semiconductor leader, Ambiq Micro, appoints Vince Murdica, VP of Global Sales and Business Development (Thursday Sep. 03, 2015)
  Ambiq Micro, the leader in ultra-low power integrated circuits for power-sensitive applications, today announced the appointment of Vince Murdica as Vice President of Global Sales and Business Development.
  
  
• Faraday Technology: Announcement of President Change (Wednesday Jul. 29, 2015)
  
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Jen-Tai Hsu Vice President of Engineering (Thursday Jul. 23, 2015)
  Kilopass announces Dr. Jen-Tai Hsu has been named Vice President of Engineering. He will report directly to Kilopass Chief Executive Officer Charlie Cheng and be responsible for managing all of Kilopass’ anti-fuse One-Time Programmable (OTP) memory engineering.
  
  
• Imagination appoints industry veteran to lead its expanding China operations (Wednesday Jul. 22, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies announces the appointment of industry veteran James Liu as general manager for its expanding China operations. Imagination created this new role to strengthen its senior management team and engage more deeply with customers and partners in the region.
  
  
• Ambiq Micro appoints Dale Hancock as Vice President of Engineering (Friday Jul. 10, 2015)
  Ambiq Micro today announced the appointment of Dale Hancock as Vice President of Engineering.
  
  
• UltraSoC appoints Gadge Panesar as CTO (Thursday Jul. 09, 2015)
  UltraSoC today announces the appointment of Gajinder (“Gadge”) Panesar as its new CTO. He succeeds current CTO and UltraSoC co-founder Dr Andrew Hopkins, who has resigned from his executive role within the Company.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies: Board change (Tuesday Jul. 07, 2015)
  Imagination Technologies announces that Richard Smith, the Group’s Chief Financial Officer (CFO), has resigned in order to take up a similar position at Sepura plc.
  
  
• Intel Announces Leadership Changes (Monday Jul. 06, 2015)
  Today Intel Corporation's CEO, Brian Krzanich, announced a series of leadership and organizational changes in a message to employees. Intel President Renée James informed the board that she will be stepping down as President of Intel to pursue an external CEO role.
  
  
• INSIDE Secure Appoints Executive Vice President of Marketing to Accelerate Growth (Tuesday Jun. 16, 2015)
  INSIDE Securetoday announced the appointment of Trevor Daughney as Executive Vice President of Marketing. This new position supports the company’s expansion in security software and recent acquisitions of software and technology companies Embedded Security Solutions and Metaforic.
  
  
• Open-Silicon Expands Management Team (Tuesday Jun. 09, 2015)
  As ongoing effort to provide holistic system-level approach to ASIC design and strengthen specification-to-volume production capability, Open-Silicon’s President and CEO, Taher Madraswala, announced the addition of two industry veterans to the executive team: Vasan Karighattam and Amal Bommireddy.
  
  
• Sidense Announces New Chief Financial Officer (Friday May. 15, 2015)
  Sidense today announced Bob Daly as the company’s Chief Financial Officer. In that role, Mr. Daly will oversee Sidense’s financial planning and reporting as the company continues its rapid expansion.
  
  
• VeriSilicon Appoints Robert A. Brown as Chief Financial Officer (Thursday Apr. 30, 2015)
  VeriSilicon Holdings Co., Ltd. (VeriSilicon), a Silicon Platform as a Service (SiPaaSTM) company, today announced the appointment of Robert (Bob) Brown as Chief Financial Officer. Brown replaces Shannon Gao, who has resigned for personal reasons.