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Intensifying its focus on analog foundry processing capabilities, Dongbu HiTek’s Semiconductor Division announced that Felicia James has joined the company as Strategy Director of its Analog Foundry Business Unit (AFBU), a new position reporting to Lou N. Hutter, SVP and GM of the Unit. Read more >>

Co-founder and former CEO of Oslo, Norway-based REC Reidar Langmo has accepted his seat on the board of directors of Voltaix, the semiconductor materials provider. Mr. Langmo was also a founding partner and CEO of Novus Energy Partners, from which company Voltaix has recently received an investment worth $9 million. Read more >>

The Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2) has announced the election of its Board of Directors for the 2009-2010 term. Most of the members from last year remain the same, with just one new addition. Read more >>

Gary Fazzino, a former Mayor of Palo Alto and Hewlett-Packard's Vice President of Government and Public Affairs since May 2000, has joined Applied Materials as Vice President, Government Affairs, responsible for Applied’s global government relations programs. Read more >>

Amkor Technology, Inc. has announced its plans for an executive shake-up on October 1st, as it revealed that company CEO and founder James Kim (pictured) will become Executive Chairman of the Board of Directors and Ken Joyce, President and COO, will take the reins as well as a seat on the board of directors. The succession has been on the cards for some time, according to the company. Read more >>

Globalfoundries has announced two new members of its executive team: Norm Armour, newly-elected vice president and general manager, and Eric Choh, vice president of operations. The company is setting up shop for the development of Fab 2 at the Luther Forest Technology Campus in New York, its newest semiconductor fabrication facility. Read more >>

SanDisk Corp. has announced that it will be awarding its co-founder, chairman and CEO Eli Harari the IEEE Robert N. Noyce Medal at the IEEE Honours Ceremony due to be held in Los Angeles on June 25^th.

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NEXX Systems has announced that Tsuyoshi (Yoshi) Kotaki will serve as the company's new Sales Director, heading customer-related operations in the region of Japan. Read more >>

Innovative Silicon, Inc. has recruited the skills of Dr. Wolfgang Mueller, former Qimonda Fellow of DRAM Technology at Qimonda AG, as director of device engineering and process integration. Mueller implemented the introduction of various memory innovations such as Qimonda AG’s “buried wordline” DRAM technology. Read more >>

A subsidiary of M+W Zander US, Inc., Total Facilities Solutions (TFS) has added to its executive team with the addition of high-tech industry veteran Joe Cestari as president. With this new role, Mr. Cestari will take on responsibility for the development of markets, regional expansion and the establishment of a strategic plan for TFS products and services focused on OEMs and large-scale process systems suppliers. Read more >>