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Bolstering the company’s research team, iSuppli Corp. has added former Samsung and Intel executive Michael Yang to its research team. Bringing a wealth of semiconductor-related experience to the company, Mr. Yang’s responsibilities as senior analyst, mobile flash memory and storage solutions will include overseeing research of mobile flash memory and hard disk drives as well as Solid State Drives (SSDs), which sector he initiated during his seven-year tenure at Samsung. Read more >>

NXP Semiconductors has appointed Ruediger (‘Rudy’) Stroh as General Manager of the identification business, taking over from Christophe Duverne, whose new role will be announced in the coming days. A former Siemens and Infineon executive, Mr. Stroh brings several years of operations management experience to the role. He will report directly to Rick Clemmer (pictured), who is managing the automotive business on an interim basis. Read more >>

Subramani Kengeri has moved from TSMC to newly formed GLOBALFOUNDRIES as Vice President of Design Solutions. At GLOBALFOUNDRIES, he will report to Mojy Chian, who recently joined the company as senior vice president of design enablement. Kengeri was the head of TSMC’s U.S. based design centre. Read more >>

Former Vice President of Technology Development at fabless semiconductor firm, Altera Corporation, Curtis “Mojy” Chian has been appointed Head of Design Enablement at GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Chian will be responsible for customers have the necessary design infrastructure at the newly formed foundry and will based in Sunnyvale, California. Read more >>

With immediate affect, ARC International has said that its President and Chief Executive Officer, Carl Schlachte has resigned from the company. Dr Geoff Bristow, (pictured) who is currently the Senior Independent Director of the Company and has been a Non-Executive Director of the Company since 2003, will take-over the reigns. Read more >>

An interim CFO has been appointed at ASMI International, while the semiconductor equipment company continues to search for a permanent replacement to Arnold J.M. van der Ven, who will leave the company on May 14, 2009.  The new CFO is recently retired Rob Ruijter the former CFO of' The Nielsen Company. Read more >>

Asyst Technologies Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of the Board, Stephen Schwartz has resigned from the company is has been revealed through an SEC filing yesterday. The company has recently entered into voluntary Chapter 11 receivership and is to be delisted from the NASDAQ stock exchange. The company is also up for sale. Read more >>

Following-on from the appointment of Hein van der Zeeuw as CEO in January, 2009, thin-film start-up, Odersun AG has recruited Peter van Bommel as its new Chief Financial Officer. Van Bommel’s last position was with NXP Semiconductor, formally the semiconductor division of Royal Philips. According to Odersun, van Bommel took the position on an interim basis at the beginning of year. van Bommel left NXP in May, 2008 for personal reasons, according to the NXP announcement at the time. Read more >>

Newly established foundry, GLOBALFOUNDRIES has appointed Gregg Bartlett as Senior Vice President of Technology and Research and Development. Bartlett took up the position about a month ago, leaving his position as Vice President of Design Technology at Freescale Semiconductor. Craig Sander, the former head of R&D has moved to a new role, reporting directly to company CEO Doug Grose, handling a range of unspecified ‘special projects.’ Bartlett will be responsible for collaborative R&D activities with the IBM Alliance. Read more >>

Micrel Inc., suppliers of analog, high bandwidth communications and Ethernet IC solutions, announced VP of Analog Design and R&D, David Schie will be named VP of the Analog Business Unit.  He will be accountable for the Analog Business Unit, which constitutes over two-thirds of the company’s total revenue.   Read more >>