Online information source for semiconductor professionals

Three members of different standards committees were honoured recently by SEMI Europe. Jan Rothe of Globalfoundries, Jean-Marie Collard from Solvay and Wolfgang Sievert, now retired from Honeywell. The awards were given in the presence of over 220 industry executives at the 3rd Executive Summit during SEMICON Europa, held last week in Dresden, Germany. Read more >>

Brian Halla will retire as Chief Executive Officer of National Semiconductor at the end of November, remaining as Executive Chairman of the company. He will also retire from the Board of Directors at the end May, 2010, exactly 14-years after joining the company. Donald Macleod will replace Halla, currently National's President and Chief Operating Officer. Read more >>

MEMC Electronic Materials has shuffled its senior management with the aim of having executives responsible for its two core markets, semiconductor and solar. Ken Hannah, who has served as Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer since April 2006, has been promoted to the newly created position of Executive Vice President of MEMC and President of MEMC Solar Materials. Hannah will therefore be responsible for all sales and manufacturing operations for polysilicon and solar wafers.
Read more >>

Almost a year to the day that Fabtech reported on Thomas Seifert’s appointment as interim CFO for Qimonda, it appears that the industry veteran has moved to AMD to take up the CFO role and the title of senior vice president. Read more >>

Solar and semiconductor wafer slurry reprocessing company, CRS Reprocessing Services (CRS) has named Scott T. Massie as CEO. Prior to this role, Massie was CEO of EPV Solar -- manufacturer of thin-film modules based in Robbinsville -- New Jersey. Read more >>

ASML Holding appoints Frederic Schneider-Maunoury as Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer (COO) to the Board of Management. The company's Supervisory Board offers the position, subject to notification of the general meeting of shareholders, which is scheduled to be held on March 24, 2010. Read more >>

Ultratech, Inc., supplier of lithography and laser-processing systems used to manufacture semiconductor devices, has announced that Vincent F. Sollitto Jr., Principal at Scottsdale Partners International, LLC, has resigned from Ultratech's board of directors. Read more >>

Concentrated solar thermal specialist Ausra, Inc has a new President & COO. Dr. Thomas Caulfield, formerly Executive Vice President of Sales at Novellus Systems has joined the company to accelerate the company's transition from a power plant developer to a global solar steam systems provider. Dr. Caulfield was selected after an extensive, nationwide search of senior executives with strong technical and OEM backgrounds. Read more >>

Succeeding Shimpei Hirata who has returned to Japan to take up a new position with Fujitsu's Electronic Devices Division, Dr. Joji Murakami, a Fujitsu career executive been named as the company’s new President. He is based at FME's European headquarters in Langen, near Frankfurt. Brendan Mc Kearney, Vice President, Sales and Supply Chain at FME, has been appointed Managing Director of FME. Read more >>

Globalfoundries continues to bulk-up its executive team with the appointment of former UMC manager, Jim Ballingall as Vice President of Marketing. Ballingall is expected to report to another ex-UMC executive and recently hired, Jim Kupec. Ballingall will be responsible for creating a ‘best-in-class’ foundry marketing organization, according to the company. Read more >>