Aspex Technology Opens Office in Mountain View, Calif.; Names Jim Apfel Senior Vice President of Corporate Development.Business/Technology Editors MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Feb. 5, 2001 Apfel to Manage Strategic Business Development, Sales, Raise Capital Aspex Technology Ltd, a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. designing scaleable digital signal processing See DSP. Digital Signal Processing - (DSP) Computer manipulation of analog signals (commonly sound or image) which have been converted to digital form (sampled). (DSP (1) (Digital Signal Processor) A special-purpose CPU used for digital signal processing applications (see definition #2 below). It provides ultra-fast instruction sequences, such as shift and add, and multiply and add, which are commonly used in math-intensive ) products from Uxbridge, England, today opened its first United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. office here. In addition, James (Jim) L. Apfel has been named senior vice president of corporate development. The office is located at: 2103 Landings Drive, Mountain View, Calif. 94043. Telephone: (650) 938-2300. Facsimile: (650) 938-3196. Apfel, who has close to 18 years of experience in management, worldwide sales and marketing, strategic planning Strategic planning is an organization's process of defining its strategy, or direction, and making decisions on allocating its resources to pursue this strategy, including its capital and people. and business develop, reports to John Lancaster John Lancaster may refer to several people:
"Jim's varied background is ideal for Aspex, offering us the rare combination of strategic management, marketing and sales skills and new business development to help us quickly establish ourselves in the U.S. marketplace," notes Lancaster. He was most recently vice president of strategic sales at QuestLink Technology, now part of eChips.com. As vice president of corporate development at ELEMENT 14 Inc., acquired by Broadcom last year, he was a co-founder, member of the management team and helped define intellectual property (IP) rights. Previously, Apfel was vice president of sales at VDONet Corporation, a supplier of software video conferencing and streaming. He also worked for Diamond Multimedia Systems Inc., Rockwell and the division now known as Conexant in sales management positions. He began his career as a system engineer at Rockwell and also worked as a project engineer at The Aerospace Corporation. Apfel holds a Bachelor of Science Noun 1. Bachelor of Science - a bachelor's degree in science BS, SB bachelor's degree, baccalaureate - an academic degree conferred on someone who has successfully completed undergraduate studies Degree in Mechanical Engineering from California Polytechnic Institute in San Luis Obispo San Luis Obispo (săn l  `ĭs ōbĭs`pō), city (1990 pop. 41,958), seat of San Luis Obispo co., S Calif., near San Luis Obispo Bay; inc. 1856. , Calif.; a Master of Science Degree in Systems Management from the University of Southern California The U.S. News & World Report ranked USC 27th among all universities in the United States in its 2008 ranking of "America's Best Colleges", also designating it as one of the "most selective universities" for admitting 8,634 of the almost 34,000 who applied for freshman admission in Los Angeles; a Master of Science Degree in Biomedical Engineering Biomedical engineeringAn interdisciplinary field in which the principles, laws, and techniques of engineering, physics, chemistry, and other physical sciences are applied to facilitate progress in medicine, biology, and other life sciences. from Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill.; and a Master of Business Administration Degree from Santa Clara University. About Aspex Technology Aspex, headquartered in Uxbridge, United Kingdom (U.K.), is a venture-backed, privately owned fabless semiconductor company which has more than 450 engineering years of research and development in high-performance computing architecture. Aspex, drawing on technology developed at Brunel University in the U.K. has developed a scalable computer architecture proven with a number of customers over many years, called the Associative String Processor (ASP). It offers standalone ASP-based devices, IP cores and development and evaluation systems. The ASP architecture affords high-performance, scalability and the software programmable flexibility required in current and next-generation media processing products/appliances. Corporate Headquarters are located at: Building 2, Brunel Science Park, Kingston Lane, Uxbridge, UK UB8 3PQ. Telephone: +44 (0) 1895 253111. Facsimile: +44 (0) 1895 253789. Email: info@aspextechnology.com. Aspex Technology can be found on the Internet at: http://www.aspextechnology.com. Aspex Technology acknowledges trademarks or registered trademarks of other organizations for their respective products and services. |
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