Berkana Wireless Announces David Tahmassebi Joining as President and CEO.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers CAMPBELL, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 29, 2004 Berkana Wireless Inc., a provider of highly integrated CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. RF solutions for wireless connectivity, today announced it has named David Tahmassebi as president, CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. and co-chairman. Mr. Tahmassebi comes from RF Micro Devices RF Micro Devices (NASDAQ: RFMD) is a manufacturer of integrated circuits, founded in Greensboro, NC, in 1991 by William J. Pratt, Powell T. Seymour and Jerry D. Neal.[1]. which acquired Resonext Communications Inc., an 802.11 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. he co-founded in 2000. While president and CEO of Resonext, Mr. Tahmassebi led the company from product design to production. Previously, he managed the Consumer Business Unit of VLSI Technology VLSI Technology, Inc was a company which designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom ICs. The company was based in Silicon Valley, with headquarters at 1109 McKay Drive in San Jose, California. and was involved in various sales and business development roles at VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. and Stanford Telecom. As a result of his appointment, Mr. Tahmassebi will take a seat on Berkana's board as co-chairman. "I am excited to join Berkana's dynamic technical team and take the company to the next level. The future of ubiquitous wireless connectivity is highly dependent on semiconductor companies' ability to provide cost optimized, low power, high performance and small foot print devices. Berkana's CMOS GSM/GPRS product provides the right architecture and platform for such offerings," stated Mr. Tahmassebi. Mr. Tahmassebi replaces Dr. Cormac Conroy, who now becomes vice president of strategic marketing and business development. "David brings invaluable experience taking a wireless fabless CMOS start-up from an engineering centric organization to a complete company shipping product. With the world's first monolithic quad band Quad band (also known as quad-band or quadband) literally means four bands. Most people come across the term when it is used to describe a mobile phone supporting four frequency bands. GSM/GPRS CMOS transceiver chip sampling, Berkana is pleased to hand the baton to David," noted Dr. Conroy. About Berkana Wireless Berkana Wireless Inc. is a Silicon Valley-based fabless semiconductor company that develops highly integrated mixed-signal RF integrated circuits for cellular and other wireless applications using proprietary digital CMOS techniques. Berkana's vision is to deliver dramatic cost, power, and space savings to the cellular phone radio function, and to enable next-generation multi-mode handsets and wireless terminals. More information about Berkana can be found at www.berkanawireless.com. |
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