Design Technology Council Announces Election of Chairman for 2007-2008 Term.AUSTIN, Texas -- The Design Technology Council (DTC DTC See: Depository Transfer Check DTC See: Depository Trust Company DTC See Depository Trust Company (DTC). ), a group of semiconductor and system design companies, today announced that Rahul Goyal, director of EDA (1) (Electronic Design Automation) Using the computer to design, lay out, verify and simulate the performance of electronic circuits on a chip or printed circuit board. Business for Intel Corporation, has been elected as its chairman. Mr. Goyal and his team are responsible for Intel's strategic engagements with the EDA industry and academia. Among other things, his team drives Intel's strategic equity investments in design & CAD, university research in design sciences, EDA strategy and supplier engagements. Mr. Goyal has been with Intel for over 17 years. Goyal's term as chairman runs from June 2007 - June 2008. As chairman of the DTC, Goyal is responsible for overseeing the strategic direction of the council. DTC membership now stands at 10 leading semiconductor and systems companies, representing a strong user voice to the EDA industry. In the last several years, the DTC has initiated several industry initiatives that enable design tool interoperability and improvements to product development efficiency. The DTC is comprised of representatives from AMD (Advanced Micro Devices, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA, www.amd.com) A major manufacturer of semiconductor devices including x86-compatible CPUs, embedded processors, flash memories, programmable logic devices and networking chips. , Ericsson, Freescale Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard, IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) Corporation, Intel, Infineon, LSI, NXP Semiconductors, and Sun Microsystems. "The need to collaborate is becoming increasingly important with growing challenges in product and process technology development," says Mr. Goyal. "The DTC is in a unique position to take a leadership role in addressing issues facing our industry. I would like to thank my industry peers for this recognition and look forward to working with them to drive efforts leading to improvements in development productivity and design interoperability." About the DTC The Design Technology Council (DTC) is a group of semiconductor and system design companies, which acts as a voice of the EDA customer base to promote strategic solutions through the identification of gaps between projected EDA capabilities and the future needs of the semiconductor and system design community. Members include: AMD (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange : AMD), Ericsson (Nasdaq: ERICY), Freescale Semiconductor, Hewlett-Packard (NYSE: HPQ), IBM (NYSE: IBM), Infineon (NYSE: IFX), Intel (Nasdaq: INTC INTC Intel (NASDAQ symbol) INTC Intercept INTC Interrupt Controller ), LSI (NYSE: LSI), NXP Semiconductors, and Sun Microsystems (Nasdaq: SUNW SUNW Sun Microsystems, Inc (former stock symbol; now JAVA) SUNW Stanford University Network Workstation (Sun Microsystems, Inc) ). All listed trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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