24 June 2008

Mirics Semiconductor has enlisted the expertise of Joseph Chu, to
oversee the company’s global broadcast receiver business in the Asia
Pacific region. Mr Chu brings over 20 years of experience in the
semiconductor industry to the role from employs with companies
including STMicroelectronics and Harris Semiconductor (now Intersil).
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Conexant Systems, Inc. has apointed William E. Bendush and Matthew E.
Massengill (pictured) to the company’s Board of Directors, bringing the
total number of members to eight. Mr. Bendush will serve as chairman of
the board’s Audit Committee and will sit on the Board Governance and
Composition Committee, while Mr. Massengill will sit on the Board
Governance and Composition and the Compensation and Management
Development Committees.
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24 June 2008

AMD has announced the appointment of Emilio Ghilardi as Senior Vice
President and General Manager of the EMEA region, commencing in
mid-August 2008. The company also announced the resignation of Alberto
Macchi (pictured), Corporate Vice President of sales and marketing for
the EMEA region, citing the pursuit if new opportunities as the reason
for his departure.
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24 June 2008
RF semiconductor company Sequoia Communications has promoted two of its
employees to the level of Vice President, with immediate effect. Reza
Kasnavi has been named as Vice President of product management, while
Duncan Pilgrim (pictured) takes up the role of Vice President of
marketing.
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20 June 2008

Eddy Hartenstein (pictured), former Chairman and CEO of DIRECTV, Inc.,
and William T. Morrow, CEO of Pacific Gas & Electric Company, have
joined the Broadcom Board of Directors. These new additions bring the
number of Board members to eight, seven of whom are independent
directors.
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19 June 2008

CATRENE (Cluster for Application and Technology Research in Europe on
NanoElectrics) has named Werner Mohr (pictured) as Vice Chairman for
the cluster programme with immediate effect. Mr. Mohr, a member of the
SEMI Advisory Board and a seasoned semiconductor executive, retired
from his active roles with Infineon in May 2008 and joins the CATRENE
endeavour for technological leadership for the European ICT industry.
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19 June 2008

Gustavo Arenas (pictured), former Senior Vice President for AMD, has
been promoted to the position of Chief Sales Officer for the company
with immediate effect. Reporting to the office of the CEO, Mr. Arenas
takes up responsibility for coordination of the company’s regional
sales organizations and collaboration between these and the company’s
global customers.
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18 June 2008

Meir Mimon has been named as worldwide Vice President of sales and
marketing for Jordan Valley Semiconductors Ltd. The appointment follows
the recent news of the acquisition of Bede, the HRXRD metrology
company. Mr. Mimon will oversee Jordan Valley’s growth strategy and
customer support operations to increase the company’s market share.
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18 June 2008

Ed Korczynski (pictured), Senior Technical Editor at Solid State
Technology magazine (SST), signed off from his blog, ‘Ed’s Threads,’
for the last time last Friday, noting that he has resigned his position
and is going to pursue some new directions within the semiconductor
manufacturing sector.
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17 June 2008

Lattice Semiconductor has named former Unisem Group CEO Bruno Guilmart
as its new President and CEO, effective from July 7th. The appointment
follows the resignation from the role of
Steve Skaggs at the end of May and the subsequent appointment of Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
Jan Johannessen as Interim CEO.
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