Darrell Burns Joins Scenix as Vice President of Engineering.Business Editors MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 1, 2000 ATI (ATI Technologies Inc., Markham Ontario, http://ati.amd.com) A leading manufacturer of graphics chips and display adapters. Founded in 1985 by K. Y. Ho, Benny Lau and Lee Lau, ATI chips and boards are widely used by OEMs. , Hewlett-Packard Veteran To Help Drive Next-Generation Embedded Internet Processor Chip and Software Development Scenix, a leader in providing embedded Internet processors and software, today announced that Darrell M. Burns has joined the company as vice president of engineering. Mr. Burns, 44, has more than 21 years of experience in the areas of 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 computer systems development, including 15 years in R&D management during which he led and shared in the development of several generations of Hewlett-Packard's PA-RISC (Precision Architecture-RISC) A proprietary RISC-based CPU architecture from HP that was introduced in 1986. It is the foundation of HP's 3000 and 9000 computer families. See IA-64. computer family, including the PA-7200 processor chip and the HP9000/T500 multiprocessor server. He will be responsible for all of Scenix' hardware and software design activity. "Darrell brings us an extensive background in hardware and software engineering, as well as the proven ability to lead teams in the successful development and delivery of leadership products. He has a proven track record of delivering processors that have set industry milestones," said Bulent Celebi, Scenix president and 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. . "Darrell's strong technical, planning and management skills will be of immense value as we continue to expand the capabilities of our embedded Internet processors and grow the offering of pre-built Virtual Peripheral(tm) software modules that run on them." "Scenix represents a unique opportunity to help drive an entirely new design methodology, using a single software-configurable processor chip to bring unsurpassed performance and Internet connectivity to a wide variety of applications that are just now beginning to emerge," Mr. Burns said. "It's a revolutionary approach that, as far as I can see, is the most viable way to embed the Internet See ETI. at consumer price points. I'm very excited to be joining in that effort, and look forward to helping develop next-generation processor platforms and related software that will extend the company's leadership position." Before joining Scenix, Mr. Burns was vice president of engineering and general manager at ATI Research, responsible for ATI's integrated graphics solutions. Prior to its acquisition by ATI, he was vice president of engineering at Chromatic Research. He was previously with Hewlett-Packard, most recently as Lab Director, Systems Technology Division. His other positions at Hewlett-Packard included Section Manager, Chief Engineer and Project Manager, Systems Technology Division, and R&D Engineer, Computer Systems Division/HP Labs. During his career, Mr. Burns has consistently shown that he can grow and manage organizations. At Chromatic Research, for example, his VLSI team went from 10 to 110, and at Hewlett-Packard's Systems Technology Division, he grew his team to 135 employees. Mr. Burns holds an MSEE MSEE Master of Science in Electrical Engineering MSEE Mean Square Estimation Error MSEE Major Source Enforcement Effort MSEE Materials Science and Electrical Engineering (Purdue University building) from the University of California, Berkeley The University of California, Berkeley is a public research university located in Berkeley, California, United States. Commonly referred to as UC Berkeley, Berkeley and Cal , and a BSEE BSEE abbr. Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of California, Davis The University of California, Davis, commonly known as UC Davis, is one of the ten campuses of the University of California, and was established as the University Farm in 1905. . Scenix Headquartered in Mountain View, California For the census-designated place, see Mountain View, Contra Costa County, California. For other places called "Mountain View", see . Mountain View is a city in Santa Clara County, in the U.S. state of California. The city gets its name from the views of the Santa Cruz Mountains. , Scenix provides communications software and controllers for embedded applications, with a market emphasis on embedding the Internet in everyday things. Scenix is the leading supplier of Virtual PeripheralTM software modules, which are functions that are conventionally implemented in hardware. The company's software system-on-a-chip approach reduces time to production and system cost, while providing greater flexibility, compared to traditional design approaches. Recognition includes: -- "100 Hot Products of 1998" by EDN for the 100 MIPS SX Series communications controller -- "10 Top Processor List of 1998" by Electronic News for the 100 MIPS SX Series communications controller -- "50 Hot Products of 1999" by EDN Europe for the SX-Stack TCP/IP TCP/IP in full Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol Standard Internet communications protocols that allow digital computers to communicate over long distances. network protocol stack -- "100 Hot Products of 1998" by EDN for the 100 MIPS SX Series communications controller -- "10 Top Processor List of 1998" by Electronic News for the 100 MIPS SX Series communications controller Additional information on Scenix and its products can be found on the Web at www.scenix.com. Note to Editors: Virtual Peripheral is a trademark of Scenix Semiconductor, Inc. |
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