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• Former NetLogic CEO and Broadcom Executive, Ron Jankov, Joins eASIC Board of Directors (Monday Jul. 14, 2014)
  eASIC today announced the appointment of Ron Jankov to the company’s Board of Directors. Mr. Jankov was recently Senior Vice President and General Manager of Processors and Wireless Infrastructure at Broadcom Corporation.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Group plc - Retirement of Chairman (Thursday Jul. 10, 2014)
  Imagination Technologies has been notified by Geoff Shingles that he intends to retire as Chairman within the next 6 to 12 months when a successor has been appointed.
  
  
• Crossbar, Inc. Names Ron Richter VP of Sales (Monday Jun. 16, 2014)
  Crossbar, Inc., a start-up pioneering Resistive RAM (RRAM) technology, today announced that semiconductor industry veteran Ron Richter joined the company as vice president of sales. Heading up Crossbar’s new sales organization, Richter will be responsible for driving the company’s global sales strategy and organization as it readies its technology to go to market.
  
  
• Industry veteran Tony Picard joins videantis as sales VP (Friday Jun. 06, 2014)
  Videantis announced today that Tony Picard has joined the company as its vice president for sales, reporting to CEO Hans-Joachim Stolberg. Picard will be responsible for driving customer success and further adoption of the videantis unified video/vision processor IP.
  
  
• Sonics Appoints New Asia Sales Director (Tuesday May. 13, 2014)
  Sonics today named Yong Ho On as the new Asia Sales Director. On's hire will strengthen Sonics' presence in Asia and help develop the company's SoC market share in China, Korea and Taiwan. On represented Sonics in Korea for eon Technologies from 2002-2004, when Sonics closed its first licenses with a major Korean semiconductor and systems company.
  
  
• ARM Holdings PLC Announces Retirement of CFO in May 2015 (Thursday May. 01, 2014)
  ARM announces today that Tim Score, who has been Chief Financial Officer since 2002, has decided to retire from the company twelve months from now in May 2015. Since joining ARM, Tim has been an integral part of the leadership team responsible for growing ARM’s revenues, profits and returns to shareholders over a sustained period.
  
  
• Eric Penain to join Reflex CES as Sales Director (Monday Apr. 28, 2014)
  Reflex CES (Custom Embedded Systems), a provider of Modified-Off-The-Shelf (MOTS) solutions and turnkey embedded systems, today announced that Eric Penain joins the company as Sales Director. Reporting directly to the Chief Operating Officer, Eric’s role is to define and execute the company’s national and international sales development strategy.
  
  
• Tech Veteran Jerry Rudiak Joins Vidatronic as VP (Tuesday Apr. 01, 2014)
  Vidatronic, Inc. announced that technology veteran, Jerry Rudiak, will join the company as Vice President of Business Development and Applications Engineering. Jerry has over 20 years of experience in the design and development of seminconductor solutions for power management applications. Jerry also brings needed depth in the area of global business development.
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Colin Bill as Chief Scientist To Lead Next Generation of Product Innovation (Thursday Mar. 20, 2014)
  Kilopass today announced the appointment of Colin Bill as its Chief Scientist to lead specific breakthrough projects for the next generation of product rollouts.
  
  
• Arteris Recruits World-Class Engineering Leadership Team (Tuesday Feb. 18, 2014)
  Arteris today announced that Craig Forrest, Dave Parry and Benoit de Lescure have joined Arteris to perform critical leadership roles on the Arteris engineering leadership team. Forrest joins Arteris as Chief Technology Officer; Parry as Vice President of Engineering; and de Lescure as Director of Application Engineering.
  
  
• oViCs names Jess Herrera as Vice President of Worldwide Sales & Marketing (Wednesday Feb. 12, 2014)
  oViCs, a leading provider of industry-standard advanced video IP cores for HEVC / H.265, today announced the appointment of Jess Herrera as the company's new Vice President of Sales and Marketing, reporting to President and CEO, Sorin Cismas.
  
  
• XMOS appoints Simon Knowles as Chief Technology Officer (Tuesday Feb. 04, 2014)
  XMOS has today announced the appointment of Simon Knowles to the role of Chief Technology Officer and member of the Board of Directors. Knowles has a strong track record as both engineer and entrepreneur, having co-founded and exited two highly successful fabless semiconductor companies, Element14 Inc. and Icera Inc, for a combined value of over $1billion.
  
  
• UltraSoC further strengthens Board with appointment of CSR Co-Founder Graham Pink (Thursday Jan. 30, 2014)
  UltraSoC Technologies today announced the appointment of Graham Pink to the Board. This comes a week after the announcement of the appointment of Chris Gilbert as Non-Executive Chairman.
  
  
• ARM: Appointment of New Chairman (Monday Jan. 27, 2014)
  ARM Holdings plc announces that Sir John Buchanan is stepping down as Chairman, at his request, due to a medical condition. The Board has conducted a thorough search and is pleased to announce that Stuart Chambers will join the Board today as Chairman designate and will succeed Sir John Buchanan as Chairman on 1 March 2014.
  
  
• Recore Systems appoints Dirk Logie as CEO (Tuesday Jan. 14, 2014)
  With the appointment of Dirk Logie as CEO, Recore Systems BV, a Dutch fabless semiconductor company, takes a big step forward towards becoming a recognized supplier of reliable many-core processor subsystem IP, comprising both hardware and software components.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Announces New Chief Executive to Lead Next Phase of Growth (Tuesday Jan. 07, 2014)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES announced today Sanjay Jha has been appointed as the company’s new Chief Executive Officer. Jha has served as CEO of Motorola Mobility Inc. and as the COO of Qualcomm Inc.
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Leslie Landers Vice President of Sales To Accelerate Kilopass' Rapid Expansion (Friday Dec. 27, 2013)
  Kilopass today announced the appointment of Leslie Landers as Vice President of Worldwide Sales to further strengthen customer ties and increase the company's market reach.
  
  
• Former Apple and Broadcom Executive, Dr. Edward H. Frank, Joins eASIC Board of Directors (Tuesday Nov. 26, 2013)
  
  
  
• Blu Wireless appoints CSR co-founder as non-exec director (Thursday Nov. 21, 2013)
  60GHz wireless specialist, Blu Wireless has appointed the CSR co-founder, Glenn Collinson to the role of non-executive director.
  
  
• Arteris Names Rich Yeon Senior General Manager (Wednesday Nov. 06, 2013)
  Arteris today announced that Rich Yeon has been named Senior General Manager. Mr. Yeon established Arteris' Korea office in 2010, in response to significant customer design wins with Korea-based companies, providing local engineering support resources and leadership.
  
  
• Cortus opens Office in Silicon Valley (Monday Oct. 21, 2013)
  Cortus announces that they have opened an office in Silicon Valley. They have also recruited Jack Dean to head up applications engineering in the Americas.
  
  
• Kay Chai Ang Appointed Socle's New Chairperson (Friday Oct. 11, 2013)
  Socle Technology Corporation today announced the appointment of Kay Chai (KC) Ang, senior vice president and general manager of GLOBALFOUNDRIES Singapore, to serve as the company's new chairperson with immediate effect.
  
  
• Cortus appoints R. Scott Hills as Vice President Sales (Wednesday Sep. 18, 2013)
  Cortus announces that they are appointing Mr R. Scott Hills as Vice President Sales with immediate effect. Hills has previously sold 32-bit microprocessor IP for ARC (now Synopsys) along with development tools, IDE and multi-tasking Real Time Operating systems.
  
  
• Mobiveil Appoints Semiconductor IP Industry Veteran Dale Olstinske as the New Vice President of Sales (Tuesday Sep. 17, 2013)
  Mobiveil today announced the appointment of Mr. Dale Olstinske as the new Vice President of Sales. Prior to joining Mobiveil, Dale was VP of sales for Denali, subsequently acquired by Cadence Design Systems.
  
  
• ARM founder Sir Robin Saxby, CSR founder Glenn Collinson and wireless expert Professor Andrew Nix join advisory board of 60GHz IP firm Blu Wireless (Tuesday Sep. 03, 2013)
  Sir Robin Saxby, former CEO and chairman of the world’s leading IP firm ARM, Glenn Collinson, founder of leading wireless chip firm CSR, and a world leading academic expert in wireless communication technologies, Professor Andrew Nix have joined the advisory board of 60GHz IP firm, Blu Wireless.
  
  
• Former ARM CEO Joins Micron (Wednesday Jul. 24, 2013)
  Micron Technology Inc. announced last week the appointment of Warren East to the board of directors. East served as the CEO of processor IP licensor ARM Holdings plc, based in Cambridge, England, from October 2001 to July 1, 2013.
  
  
• Elliptic Technologies Elects Veteran Executives to Board of Directors and Targets Aggressive Growth (Wednesday Jun. 26, 2013)
  The Board of Directors of Elliptic Technologies today announced the appointment of Mark Stibitz and Dr. Richard Reiner as its newest members.
  
  
• Kilopass Appoints Charlie Schadewitz Vice President of Sales To Continue Its Growth (Thursday Jun. 06, 2013)
  Kilopass Technology announced today that long-time industry veteran Charlie Schadewitz has joined the company as Vice President of Sales.
  
  
• Cortus appoints Dr Richard Ryu as Technical Director, Korea (Monday May. 27, 2013)
  Cortus announces that they are appointing Dr Richard Ryu as Technical Director, Korea with immediate effect.
  
  
• Ittiam Announces Induction of Lip-Bu Tan to the Company Board (Tuesday May. 07, 2013)
  Ittiam Systems today announced the induction to the Company Board, Lip-Bu Tan, Chairman of Walden International which is a leading venture capital firm with $2 billion under management.