September - October 1999
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Richards, Seger Added to CSR's Sales Staff
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| Liz Richards | Denis Seger |
Richards is responsible for the midwest, while Seger's territory takes in all of Southern California. Contact Richards at lizrichards@worldnet.att.net and Seger at segersales@aol.com.
Moore Named President of Signetics' U.S. Arm
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| Wayne Moore |
San Jose -Wayne Moore has been named president of Signetics High Technology Inc., the U.S. marketing and sales arm of Signetics Korea Ltd.
Moore joined Signetics from ASAT's U.S. sales and marketing division, where he served in a similar capacity. He reports to S.J. Yang, Signetics' president and CEO.
During his more than 20 years in the semiconductor industry, Moore spent eight years with ASAT, as well as several years with Dynesem in the Philippines, and AMI and AMI Philippines.
Moore said he plans to grow Signetics HT "to over $400 million in annual sales in the near future."
www.signetics.com
Marcoux Joins IPAC; Two Others Promoted to Vice President
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| Phil Marcoux |
San Jose -Industry veteran Phil Marcoux has joined the Integrated Packaging Assembly Corp. as vice president of sales and marketing.
Patrick Verderico, president and CEO, has temporarily assumed the duties of chief financial officer. That post was recently vacated by Al Larrenaga, who moved to InVision Technologies, Newark, Calif.
Chris Ooi, formerly director of engineering, has been promoted to vice president of operations. Richard Oshiro has been promoted from director of quality to vice president of quality.
Ernie Barrieau, executive vice president of sales and marketing, has left to pursue other interests, IPAC said.
Marcoux was vice president and founder of ChipScale Inc., San Jose, and, earlier, AWI, Sunnyvale, Calif. He has served in management posts with Philips Semiconductors and holds a master's degree from the University of Santa Clara.
www.ipac.com
Scotland Plans to Enlarge "Silicon Glen"
Glasgow -The Scottish government has launched an initiative to create as many as 14,500 new jobs in microelectronics over the next five years and establish the country as a world center for semiconductor research.
Three goals central to the plan are:
- Creation of a new wafer foundry
- The first global Scottish-owned semiconductor company
- Scotland's first $100 million semiconductor/optoelectronics company
www.lis.org.uk
World Semiconductor Council Established
Burssels -Government leaders from four major semiconductor producing regions will meet here annually to discuss chip-related policy issues.
The new accord was announced by representatives of the U.S., Japan, Korea and the Commission of the European Union. It replaces a 1996 joint statement by the U.S. and Japanese governments concerning semiconductors.
www.semichips.org
Ultratech Stepper Intros Wafer-Level Equipment
San Jose-Ultratech Stepper Inc. has entered the market for wafer-level lithography equipment with the announcement of the Saturn Spectrum 3, a wafer stepper designed for flip-chip bumping.
The Spectrum lithography system was designed in collaboration with Casio Computer Co., Japan, which bumps wafers for its consumer products.
Ultratech says the stepper will process any g- or i-line photosensitive film from 1.0 micron to more than 100 microns thick, offers 2 microns resolution and a usable depth of focus greater than 5 microns.
The stepper boasts a wafer-size changing feature that allows back-to-back processing of wafers ranging from 100 to 200-mm/diameter.
www.ultratech.com
German Test Firm, BridgePoint Partnering
Austin -Germany's SZ Testsysteme, a maker of high-speed mixed signal testers, is partnering with BridgePoint Technical Manufacturing.
As part of their agreement, BridgePoint has taken delivery of the German firm's M3650-200 MHz mixed signal tester.
www.sz.com
HP Creates New Company from Test and Measurement Business
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| Ned Barnholt |
Edward W. (Ned) Barnholt, executive vice president of HP's test and measurement organization was named CEO of Agilent. Barnholt joined HP in 1966 as an R&D engineer at the company's former Microwave division in Palo Alto. He served in several managerial posts until 1988, when he was elected a vice president. He became general manager of the test and measurement organization in 1990.
Agilent is derived from "agile," and "is meant to reflect the company's focus on providing breakthrough products and services with agility, speed and commitment to its customers," the company said.
Beginning next spring, Agilent will be housed in a new building at 395 Page Mill Road, the site of HP's first manufacturing building, constructed in 1943.
The organization is a result of an HP plan, announced in March, to strategically realign itself into two fully independent companies. The computing and imaging businesses will retain the HP name, while the measurement businesses now comprise Agilent. The company said a chief operating officer is "to be hired."
Agilent's businesses contributed nearly $8 billion in revenues to HP during the company's 1998 fiscal year. Total HP revenus for the same period were $47.1 billion.
www.agilent-tech.com
Carly Fiorina Named Hewlett-Packard CEO
Palo Alto, Calif. -Carleton (Carly) S. Fiorina has been named president and CEO of Hewlett-Packard Co., succeeding Lewis E. Platt, who earlier announced his retirement.
She was most recently president of Lucent Technology's Global Service Provider Business, with more than $20 billion in annual revenues. Platt will remain chairman until year-end, by which time HP's computing and imaging businesses are expected to be independent of its measurement businesses.
www.hp.com