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• Rambus Announces New Senior Vice President of Global Market Development (Wednesday May. 30, 2018)
  Rambus today announced the appointment of Mike Noonen as senior vice president of global market development. Mr. Noonen will expand the Rambus semiconductor and memory ecosystem and will report to president and chief executive officer, Dr. Ron Black.
  
  
• Imagination appoints PowerVR veteran to lead business unit (Wednesday May. 23, 2018)
  Imagination Technologies announces the appointment of Nigel Leeder as executive vice president of its PowerVR business unit. Previously, Leeder performed senior leadership roles for PowerVR for over a decade, guiding the evolution of PowerVR’s Graphics Processing Units (GPUs) and advances into AI technologies.
  
  
• Sankalp Semiconductor Strengthens Management Team (Thursday May. 10, 2018)
  Sankalp Semiconductor, a design service company offering comprehensive digital & mixed signal SoC services and solutions, today announced strengthening of its management team by appointing Ashish Dixit in the key position of Director of Engineering Operations for Sankalp USA.
  
  
• Xylon Appoints Sam Kasgorgis New VP of Sales and Marketing for North America (Friday May. 04, 2018)
  Xylon today announced the appointment of Sam Kasgorgis as vice president of sales and marketing for North America. In his new role, Kasgorgis will assume responsibility for US based sales and marketing of Xylon’s products.
  
  
• Jim Keller Joins Intel to Lead Silicon Engineering (Wednesday May. 02, 2018)
  Intel today announced that Jim Keller will join Intel as a senior vice president. He will lead the company’s silicon engineering, which encompasses system-on-chip (SoC) development and integration.
  
  
• Algodone, a Silicon Activation Licensing Technology Provider to the Semiconductor Industry, Expands Executive Team (Monday Apr. 23, 2018)
  Algodone, a Silicon Activation Licensing Technology (SALT) provider, has appointed Christophe Ballan to the position of VP of Sales, and Jin Zhang, VP of Marketing. Both report to Jerome Rampon, co-founder, President and Chief Executive Officer of Algodone.
  
  
• Codasip Welcomes Jerry Ardizzone to Executive Team as Vice President of Worldwide Sales (Monday Apr. 09, 2018)
  Codasip, the leading supplier of RISC-V® embedded processor intellectual property, today announced that Jerry Ardizzone has joined as Vice President of Worldwide Sales, reporting to CEO Karel Masařík.
  
  
• Imagination Technologies Group Ltd. Announces CEO Succession (Tuesday Apr. 03, 2018)
  Imagination Technologies announces today that Dr. Leo Li is to become Chief Executive Officer.
  
  
• GLOBALFOUNDRIES Names Ronald Sampson as General Manager of its Leading-Edge Silicon Manufacturing Facility in New York (Wednesday Mar. 21, 2018)
  GLOBALFOUNDRIES today announced it has appointed Dr. Ronald Sampson as senior vice president and general manager of the company’s leading-edge 300mm semiconductor wafer manufacturing facility (Fab 8), located in Saratoga County, N.Y.
  
  
• EnSilica builds export drive with appointment of Asia Region Manager (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2018)
  EnSilica continues its drive to build its international sales with the appointment of an Asia Region Manager. Based in Shenzhen, China, Rodrigo Cordero has worked for multinational electronic companies around the world in a variety of senior roles.
  
  
• Lattice Semiconductor Announces CEO Succession Plan (Wednesday Mar. 14, 2018)
  Lattice Semiconductor today announced that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Darin G. Billerbeck, has decided to retire and will also step down from the Company’s Board of Directors on March 16, 2018.
  
  
• Following Significant Technology, Capacity and Expansion Milestones, GLOBALFOUNDRIES' Sanjay Jha to Pass Baton to Industry Veteran Tom Caulfield (Monday Mar. 12, 2018)
  After more than four years as chief executive officer of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, Sanjay Jha will hand over the company’s top position to Dr. Thomas Caulfield, senior vice president and general manager and a highly-respected industry veteran.
  
  
• Imperas Appoints Kevin McDermott as Vice President of Marketing (Wednesday Mar. 07, 2018)
  Imperas Extends Industry-Leading Growth with New Marketing VP, to Expand Strategic Presence in IoT, Automotive, Security and RISC-V Applications
  
  
• Moortec Appoints Mark Davitt ex Sidense Sales Director to grow PVT Monitoring Sales in North America (Thursday Feb. 15, 2018)
  Moortec, specialists in embedded In-Chip Monitoring Subsystem IP are pleased to announce that they have appointed ex Sidense Sales Director, Mark Davitt as their new Sales Representative for North America.
  
  
• Dolphin Integration Appoints Christian Dupont as CEO (Wednesday Feb. 14, 2018)
  Dolphin Integration enters a new era following the appointment of Christian Dupont as CEO of the company.
  
  
• SiFive Appoints CFO to Executive Team (Wednesday Feb. 14, 2018)
  SiFive, the leading provider of commercial RISC-V processor IP, continues to grow its executive staff with the appointment of Shiva Natarajan as chief financial officer. Natarajan joins SiFive with more than two decades of financial management, accounting and strategic planning experience in both public and private technology companies.
  
  
• Custom Silicon Veteran Joins SiFive Executive Team (Tuesday Jan. 30, 2018)
  SiFive today announced Shafy Eltoukhy as vice president of operations. Eltoukhy, a veteran of Microsemi and Intel, will lead SiFive’s DesignShare activities and ensure the smooth rollout of new Core IP, SoCs and services.
  
  
• SiFive Welcomes Former Intel Corporate VP to Executive Team (Monday Jan. 22, 2018)
  SiFive today announced the appointment of Sunil Shenoy as vice president of hardware engineering. The news follows SiFive's momentous expansion last quarter with its strategic partnerships, launch of the first Linux-capable RISC-V core and growth of the DesignShare program.
  
  
• Flex Logix Names Valy Ossman Technical Director, Solutions Architecture (Monday Jan. 08, 2018)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP and software, announced today that Valy Ossman has been named technical director, solutions architecture, reporting to Tony Kozaczuk, director of solutions architecture.
  
  
• Xilinx Appoints Victor Peng As President And Chief Executive Officer (Friday Jan. 05, 2018)
  Xilinx today announced that its board of directors has appointed Victor Peng as president and chief executive officer, effective January 29, 2018. Peng will become the fourth CEO in Xilinx's history and takes the helm of the global market leader of programmable semiconductor products at a time of increasing momentum and opportunity.
  
  
• Xilinx CEO Moshe Gavrielov Announces Retirement (Friday Jan. 05, 2018)
  Xilinx today announced that chief executive officer and president Moshe Gavrielov has informed the company's board of directors that he is retiring from the company and the board, effective January 28, 2018.
  
  
• UltraSoC appoints Aileen Smith as Chief Strategy Officer (Thursday Jan. 04, 2018)
  UltraSoC today announced that Aileen Smith has joined the company as Chief Strategy Officer, bringing significant and senior strategic and operational experience to the company.
  
  
• Tortuga Logic Appoints Andrew Dauman Vice President of Engineering to Oversee Product Development, R&D (Thursday Dec. 14, 2017)
  Tortuga Logic, a hardware security specialist with technology that identifies security vulnerabilities in semiconductor designs, today named Andrew Dauman vice president of engineering.
  
  
• BrainChip Announces Change in Board Membership (Thursday Dec. 14, 2017)
  BrainChip today announced that Peter van der Made, Chief Technology Officer (CTO) and Founder of BrainChip, will be resigning his position as Director on the BrainChip Board effective January 1, 2018. Mr. van der Made will focus exclusively on the development and introduction of Akida, BrainChip’s next generation Neuromorphic System-on-Chip (NSoC) processor unit.
  
  
• Intrinsic ID Names Alpesh Saraiya as Senior Director Product Management (Wednesday Nov. 29, 2017)
  Intrinsic ID announced today it has named Alpesh Saraiya to the position of senior director Product Management. Saraiya, whose experience includes senior product roles at some of the world’s top electronics companies, will report to Chief Executive Officer Pim Tuyls.
  
  
• Cadence Appoints Anirudh Devgan as President (Monday Nov. 20, 2017)
  Cadence today announced that Anirudh Devgan, executive vice president and general manager of the Digital & Signoff Group and the System & Verification Group, has been appointed president of Cadence, effective immediately.
  
  
• Spectral Edge appoints new CTO, accelerating development of smartphone imaging technology (Wednesday Nov. 08, 2017)
  Spectral Edge, experts in computational photography using image fusion, today announced that Dr Ilya Romanenko has joined the company as Chief Technology Officer (CTO).
  
  
• Flex Logix Names Fan Mo Technical Director Of FPGA CAD Software Development (Monday Nov. 06, 2017)
  Flex Logix Technologies, Inc., the leading supplier of embedded FPGA (eFPGA) IP and software, announced today that Fan Mo has joined the company as technical director, FPGA CAD software engineering.
  
  
• Xilinx Announces Appointment of Two New Directors (Thursday Nov. 02, 2017)
  Xilinx today announced the appointment of two new members to the Company's Board of Directors, increasing its total size to eleven. Mary Louise (ML) Krakauer, an independent director who will also serve on the Board's Compensation Committee, joins the Board alongside Victor Peng, the Company's chief operating officer.
  
  
• UltraSoC appoints Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli as Chairman (Tuesday Oct. 24, 2017)
  UltraSoC today announced that Professor Alberto Sangiovanni-Vincentelli has joined the company as Non-Executive Chairman, bringing the benefits of his significant experience in the electronics design industry.