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• CEVA Appoints Bernadette Andrietti to its Board of Directors (Thursday Oct. 31, 2019)
  CEVA today announced that Bernadette Andrietti has been appointed to its Board of Directors, as an independent director, effective October 30, 2019.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints Amir Faintuch as SVP and General Manager Leading Computing and Wired Infrastructure Business (Wednesday Oct. 30, 2019)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) announced today the appointment of Amir Faintuch as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s computing and wired infrastructure (CWI) strategic business unit (SBU).
  
  
• David Zinsner Appointed to Credo Board of Directors (Tuesday Oct. 29, 2019)
  Credo today announced the appointment of David Zinsner to Credo’s Board of Directors.
  
  
• Dr. Necip Sayiner Joins Rambus Board of Directors (Monday Oct. 28, 2019)
  Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider dedicated to delivering data faster and safer, today announced the appointment of Dr. Necip Sayiner to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  
  
• HDL Design House Appoints Frank Werner as Worldwide Sales Director (Tuesday Oct. 01, 2019)
  HDL Design House, provider of digital, analog, and back-end design and verification services and products in numerous areas of SoC and complex FPGA designs, announced the appointment of Frank Werner as Worldwide Sales Director, effective immediately.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Appoints Michael Hogan as SVP and General Manager to Support New Market Engagement Strategy (Friday Sep. 27, 2019)
  Reinforcing its commitment to deliver specialized solutions to targeted market segments, GLOBALFOUNDRIES (GF) announced today the appointment of Michael Hogan as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s newly established automotive, industrial and multi-market (AIM) strategic business unit (SBU).
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Chief Financial Officer Transition (Friday Sep. 20, 2019)
  Xilinx today announced that Lorenzo Flores, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, is stepping down from his position to pursue another executive opportunity.
  
  
• Alphawave IP Announces Industry Veteran and Marvell Founder Dr. Sehat Sutardja Has Joined Its Board of Directors (Tuesday Sep. 17, 2019)
  Alphawave IP, a leading provider of multi-standard connectivity IP solutions for electronic devices, today announced that Dr. Sehat Sutardja, has joined its Board of Directors.
  
  
• Moortec Announces Lee Vick as their New VP of North America Sales (Monday Sep. 16, 2019)
  Moortec, specialists in Embedded In-Chip Monitoring Subsystem IP are pleased to announce that they have appointed Lee Vick as their new Vice President of North America Sales.
  
  
• Agile Analog welcomes Sir Hossein Yassaie, former Imagination Technologies Founder and CEO, to its Board (Tuesday Sep. 10, 2019)
  Agile Analog, a Cambridge based Analog IP company, today announced the appointment of Sir Hossein Yassaie as Non-Executive Director to their Board of Directors.
  
  
• Sean Fan Joins Rambus as Chief Operating Officer (Thursday Aug. 29, 2019)
  Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced that Sean Fan has joined the company as chief operating officer (COO).
  
  
• Meera Rao Joins Rambus Board of Directors (Wednesday Aug. 14, 2019)
  Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced the appointment of Meera Rao to its Board of Directors, effective immediately.
  
  
• UltraSoC strengthens global team with appointments in Asia and USA (Thursday Aug. 08, 2019)
  UltraSoC has announced two significant appointments as part of its global expansion, with Lisa Yang joining the team as Vice President of Sales for Asia; and US-based Jean Min taking the role of Senior Customer Solutions Architect.
  
  
• Eta Compute Appoints Dr. Ted Tewksbury Chief Executive Officer (Tuesday Aug. 06, 2019)
  Eta Compute Inc., a company dedicated to delivering machine learning to mobile and edge devices based on its revolutionary new platform, announces today the appointment of Dr. Ted Tewksbury as chief executive officer effective immediately.
  
  
• Silvaco Appoints Babak Taheri as new Chief Executive Office (Thursday Aug. 01, 2019)
  Silvaco, Inc. today announced that its Board of Directors has appointed Babak Taheri to the position of Chief Executive Officer. He will also join Silvaco’s Board of Directors. Taheri has served as Silvaco’s Chief Technical Officer and Executive Vice-President of Products since October 2018.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Adds Industry Veteran Glenda Dorchak to its Board of Directors to Support Next Phase of Transformative Growth (Thursday Jun. 20, 2019)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced the appointment of Glenda Dorchak as an independent director to the company’s board of directors, bringing the total of independent members to five directors.
  
  
• UltraSoC strengthens management team with appointment of CFO (Thursday Jun. 13, 2019)
  UltraSoC has announced the appointment of Barney Edgar as its new Chief Financial Officer. As UltraSoC moves into the next phase of its growth, Edgar brings significant experience in successfully guiding fast-growing, innovative technology companies.
  
  
• sureCore Appoints Cedric Plomion Global Sales Director (Tuesday May. 21, 2019)
  sureCore Ltd., has named semiconductor IP veteran Cedric Plomion Sales Director responsible for client relationships across all geographic markets. In his new position, Plomion is responsible for growing and establishing a global presence for the company in North America, Europe and China.
  
  
• Minima Processor names Semiconductor Veteran Tuomas Hollman as CEO (Tuesday May. 21, 2019)
  Tuomas Hollman today assumed the role of Chief Executive Officer at Minima Processor, provider of near-threshold voltage design solutions to minimize energy consumption in system-on-chip (SoC) designs.
  
  
• lowRISC Expands and Appoints New Members to the Board of Directors from Google and ETH Zurich (Friday May. 17, 2019)
  lowRISC C.I.C., the open source system on a chip (SoC) organisation, today announced that Prof. Luca Benini (ETH Zurich), Dominic Rizzo (Google) and Ron Minnich (Google) have joined its board of directors. The announcement coincides with a new phase of hiring by lowRISC with the goal of significantly increasing the size of its Cambridge-based engineering team during 2019.
  
  
• ON Semiconductor Executive Named to Alphacore Inc. Advisory Board (Friday May. 10, 2019)
  ON Semiconductor, driving energy efficient innovations, is pleased to announce the appointment of Mamoon Rashid, senior vice president of strategic ventures at ON Semiconductor, to the advisory board of Alphacore Inc. a high-performance leader in analog, mixed signal and RF electronic design
  
  
• Wave Computing Appoints Industry Veteran Art Swift CEO (Thursday May. 09, 2019)
  Wave Computing appointed Art Swift, the current president of Wave’s MIPS IP licensing business, as its new chief executive officer (CEO). Swift, a semiconductor, processor and machine learning industry veteran, succeeds Derek Meyer, who will continue to serve the company in an advisory capacity.
  
  
• eSilicon Expands Technical Advisory Board (Tuesday Apr. 30, 2019)
  eSilicon, a leading provider of FinFET ASICs, market-specific IP platforms and advanced 2.5D packaging solutions, announced today the addition of Ron Bodkin to its technical advisory board (TAB), which is focused on guiding the company’s development work associated with artificial intelligence ASICs.
  
  
• Arm announces appointment of Inder Singh as Chief Financial Officer (Monday Apr. 29, 2019)
  Arm today announced the appointment of Inder M. Singh as executive vice president and chief financial officer (CFO) with immediate effect. Singh will lead Arm’s global finance organization and report to Arm CEO Simon Segars.
  
  
• Michael Boukaya Promoted to Chief Operating Officer of CEVA, Inc. (Wednesday Apr. 10, 2019)
  In this newly created role, Mr. Boukaya will be responsible for overseeing all the activities related to research and development, and marketing for CEVA's hardware and software IP platforms, and will report directly to Gideon Wertheizer, CEO.
  
  
• UltraSoC strengthens data science and machine learning team with appointment of new VP Software Development (Tuesday Mar. 26, 2019)
  UltraSoC has announced the appointment of Andy Penrose as its new VP of Software Development. Penrose’s appointment comes as UltraSoC expands the range and capabilities of its software and semiconductor IP for embedded analytics, encompassing both in-lab and in-life requirements.
  
  
• Wave Computing Appoints Michael Schroeder as Chief People Officer To Help Drive Company's Global Expansion Plans (Friday Mar. 22, 2019)
  Wave Computing®, the Silicon Valley company that is accelerating artificial intelligence (AI) from the datacenter to the edge, has hired Michael Schroeder as its Chief People Officer. Reporting to Derek Meyer, Wave’s CEO, Schroeder will oversee Wave’s global talent acquisition, organizational development, culture and diversity efforts.
  
  
• The RISC-V Foundation Appoints Calista Redmond As Chief Executive Officer (Wednesday Mar. 13, 2019)
  The RISC-V Foundation today announced that the RISC-V Foundation Board of Directors has appointed Ms. Calista Redmond as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), effective immediately.
  
  
• Esperanto Technologies Appoints Nick Aretakis as VP of Sales and Marketing (Tuesday Mar. 05, 2019)
  Esperanto Technologies Inc., developer of high-performance, energy-efficient computing solutions for Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) applications based on the open standard RISC-V instruction set architecture, has appointed Nick Aretakis as Vice President of Sales and Marketing.
  
  
• SiFive Welcomes Former Intel Capital VP to Executive Team (Thursday Feb. 28, 2019)
  SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP and silicon solutions, today named Hiren Majmudar vice president of business development. The rapidly growing company released the industry’s first Linux-capable RISC-V SoC and has been releasing new classes of Core IP in quick succession.