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Peter Smith has been brought on as CEO during a reshuffle at Voltaix. He is replacing Mark Fine who served as interim CEO since January 2010. He will have responsibility for a number of the company's strategic initiatives and will oversee relationships with distributor partners world-wide. Fine is taking up the post of president, in place of John de Neufville, who will continue as the company's chief scientist, overseeing chemical research and end-use applications development. Read more >>

Having presented awards the previous day at the Semicon Europa Executive Summit, Heinz Kundert himself received the IC Industry Award for leadership, which was presented on October 12, 2011, at SEMICON Europa, in Dresden. Read more >>

A related industry association head has been selected to succeed Stan Myers as president and CEO of SEMI. Dennis “Denny” P. McGuirk the former president and CEO of trade association, IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries will take-over the reigns, effective November 14, 2011. Myers announced his plans to retire in April and the SEMI International Board of Directors subsequently initiated a globally comprehensive search process. Read more >>

Dr. Tzu-Yin Chiu, the former President and CEO of Hua Hong NEC Electronics has been selected as the new CEO and Executive Director of SMIC, effective immediately. Dr. Chiu has over 27 years of experience in the industry. Read more >>

Dr. Hans Betz, Advanced Energy's chief executive officer since 2005, is retiring from the role, effective August 4, 2011, though he will continue as an advisor until December 31, 2011. His replacement is Garry Rogerson, Ph.D, chairman of the board of Coherent and previously chief executive officer of Varian, Inc. Read more >>

Dr. Graham Leggett has joined Tiger Optics as its new product manager of its environmental division that supplies laser-based trace gas analyzers. Dr. Leggett previously served as a project director and manager at AEA Technology plc. Read more >>

Specialty and electronic gases firm, Matheson has appointed Ashok Mathur as Director of Corporate Commercialization for the Corporate Marketing Group based in Montgomeryville, PA.  Mathur will focus on industrial gas application development and new products and services to our customers in the clean energy, environmental and emerging technologies markets. Read more >>

Citing increased demand for its non-visual defect (NVD) inspection systems, Qcept Technologies has appointed Richard Hong, as president, Asia-Pacific. Hong, who previously served as president of KLA-Tencor Korea, will be responsible for driving Qcept's sales and strategic partnerships in the Asia-Pacific region. Qcept's has also established a subsidiary in Korea. Read more >>

The Global Semiconductor Alliance (GSA), the voice of the global semiconductor industry, announces the appointment of Dan Hamling, Sr. Director, IC Test and Assembly Business Development, GE Global Electronics Services, to serve as the GSA Test Interest Group Chairman. A key role Hamling will play is to establish objectives and initiatives for the Test Interest Group, which will also cover 3D IC test flows and test capacity management issues. Read more >>

Stephen G. Newberry, a veteran of the semiconductor capital equipment industry, has joined Nanometrics Board of Directors. Newberry is the chief executive officer of Lam Research Corporation and currently serves as a director and vice chairman of Lam’s Board of Directors. Read more >>