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Online staff -- Electronic News, 2/3/2006
For the week of January 29, 2006
Mentoring a Foster Exec
Mentor Graphics has welcomed Harry D. Foster, chairman of the Accellera formal verification committee, chairman of the IEEE-1850 PSL working group and pioneer of assertion-based verification methods, as principal engineer of the company's design verification and test division. Foster is known as an industry expert on formal verification and is the original developer of the Open Verification Library for assertions.
Cleanup Crew
Silicon Graphics has hired a new CEO – a veteran the semiconductor industry known for his turnarounds. Dennis McKenna will lead Silicon Graphics as chairman, CEO and president, effective immediately, succeeding Robert Bishop who remains as a board member and vice chairman. The move by the high-end workstation computer company was made at the same time it announced another quarterly loss. For our full story, click here.
Do You Get Aeron Chairs for $28M?
After purchasing an addition 2 percent interest in Huawei-3Com Ltd. from Huawei for $28 million, NEC became the company’s majority holder and has claimed some additional seats at the joint venture. 3Com will appoint five directors the Huawei-3Com board of directors, one more than Huawei, and 3Com CEO Scott Murray will become chairman of the company. For our full story, click here.
Musical Chairs for 290 People
Nokia is cutting 200 positions in its networks business, but said it plans to redeploy staff to other areas. The Finnish company said it was “optimistic” that new positions would be found for most of the people. Ninety people employed in Nokia’s enterprise solutions business will also be affected. Nokia said there would be “voluntary severance packages and the possibility for redeployment within the company where possible.” For our full story, click here.
Name Dropping
Udo Muerle will be adding Rambus to the list of industry giants on his resume. The new director of business development for Rambus’ European office comes to the company from Synopsys, where he was an executive account manager. Prior to Synopsys, Muerle held various positions at IBM, TI, TransEDA and Virage Logic. For our full story, click here.
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For the week of January 22, 2006
Two Heads Are Better Than One
Dirk Meyer will take a few things off of Hector Ruiz’s shoulders at AMD, as the company has announced the promotion of Meyer to a position of shared leadership with Ruiz. Meyer will become president and COO of AMD, as Ruiz relinquishes the president title but retains his titles of AMD CEO and chairman of the board. Ruiz originally took on the three-fold title as AMD Co-founder Jerry Sanders stepped away from the chairman position in 2004. But analysts say that just because Ruiz is stepping aside from the operational roles doesn't mean he will soon be following Sanders out the door. For our full story, click here.
TI Exec Moves to Silicon Image
Silicon Image has appointed Dale Zimmerman, a former TI exec, as senior VP of worldwide marketing. In this newly created position, Zimmerman will work on the company's corporate and product marketing strategy, communications and strategic business development. Previously at TI for 23 years, Zimmerman established and built the company’s highly successful DLP TV business.
On the Rhodes Again …
The president of Newport Beach, Calif.-based Conexant Systems Inc., Matt Rhodes, will leave the company at the end of June. Dwight W. Decker, Conexant chairman and CEO, has assumed his responsibilities, while Rhodes will be on special assignment for the next six months. For our full story, click here.
ST Sees New VP
Jeffrey See has been appointed corporate VP and general manager of STMicroelectronics’ worldwide back-end operations, effective April 3. See is currently general manager of ST’s manufacturing complex in Ang Mo Kio, Singapore, and is promoted to the position of corporate VP, central back-end general manager, following the departure of Giordano Seragnoli, the current corporate VP for back-end activities who is retiring at the end of Q2. For our full story, click here.
Green Company Gets Green as Exec
Environmental compliance supply chain player Premier Farnell has named Harriet Green as its new chief executive and finance director. Green replaces John Hirst, who left the company last July. Sir Peter Gershon will remain executive chairman until Green joins the company in April, at which time he will revert to the position of non-executive chairman. Green is currently president of distributor Arrow Electronics Asia Pacific, also an compliance-concerned company. For our full story, click here.
Making Contacts
ViVOtech, the leading supplier of Contactless payment solutions, has announced the addition of three key executives to help the company position itself to capitalize on what it sees as enormous opportunities in the payment market. With 25 years of experience and most recently a VP at Brocade Communications, Peter Slocum has joined the company as senior VP of engineering. Todd Ablowitz is appointed to the position of senior VP of sales, coming to ViVOtech from First Data Corp. where he spearheaded the company’s joint ventures with Wells Fargo Merchant Services and Bank One. And David Fiore has been named as CFO. Prior to joining ViVOtech, Fiore managed his own consulting practice where he worked with more than 30 companies.
EDA Vet Packs It Up for New Opportunity
Optimal, a vendor of tools for signal and power-integrity in packaging design, has appointed EDA industry veteran Dave DeMaria as its new president and CEO. DeMaria takes those titles from Len Perham, who was previously splitting his time between heading up Optimal and overseeing his venture-capital endeavors. Perham will now serve as the company's chairman. For the full story, click here.
For the week of January 15, 2006
Keeping It in the FamilyElectronics giant Hitachi Ltd. has appointed Masahide Tanigaki as president and CEO of its Brisbane, Calif.-based wholly-owned subsidiary Hitachi America Ltd. Tanigaki most recently served as executive VP and general manager of the Hitachi America’s power and industrial division, succeeding Masao Hisada, who will become general manager of Hitachi’s corporate procurement division. The change becomes effective February 1. For our related story, click here.
Is an IPO Coming?
DiBcom, a supplier of mobile digital TV solutions, has appointed an initial public offering expert as VP and CFO. Philippe Bringuier joins the France-based company from Memscap and will report to CEO Yannick Levy. In his 18 years of financial management, merger and acquisition experience with high-technology and high-growth companies, Bringuier also worked for KPMG, a leading worldwide audit and advisory firm. For our related story, click here.
New CEO Displays Talents
Enuclia Semiconductor announced that Bruce Berkoff has joined the company as president and CEO. Berkoff is the former executive VP and chief marketing officer of LG.Philips LCD, the world's leading manufacturer of thin film transistor liquid crystal displays. Enuclia is a fabless company focused on emerging display electronics and this month also announced $13 million in Series B financing.
In the Six Sigma Seat
Electronics manufacturing services player Celestica has seated James Rowan as executive VP of worldwide operations. Rowan, who joined the company in January 2005 as president of Celestica Europe, will now be responsible for managing Celestica’s global manufacturing network, as well as implementing site-to-site consistency in Lean, Six Sigma, organizational capability and customer care. In a related announcement, Marvin MaGee, Celestica’s current executive VP of worldwide operations, has announced his intention to leave Celestica to pursue other opportunities.
No Need to Call the Movers
Oyster bay, N.Y.-based ABI Research has hired Stuart Carlaw as a principal analyst of wireless connectivity. Carlaw came to ABI Research from IMS Research in England, where he was director of wireless research. The analyst will not be crossing the pond, however. Carlaw will work out of ABI Research's U.K. office in central London.
Intellectual IP
Innovative Silicon, a maker of memory IP, has signed on Jeff Lewis as VP of marketing. Lewis has more than 22 years of marketing, engineering and management experience in semiconductor industries such as IP and electronic design automation. He was most recently president and CEO of CiraNova. Prior to CiraNova, Lewis was senior VP of marketing at FormFactor, where he led the company’s licensing efforts. Before that, he was VP of marketing and business development at Artisan Components, where he ran the company’s “free library” program. Currently, Lewis is also a director at IPextreme, a semiconductor IP company.
Commitment to Global Expansion
Arteris SA announced the hiring of Michel Telera as its VP of sales for Europe and Arklin Kee as VP of business development for the U.S. and Asia. Arteris provides network-on-chip solutions to transport and manage the on-chip communications within complex system-on-chip ICs in order to increase performance, reduce number of global wires, with lower power utilization while allowing complex, IP-laden designs. Arteris has raised more than $12 million in equity investment from an international set of venture capitalists.
