Rambus Appoints Industry-Veteran Steve Tobak as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers LOS ALTOS Los Altos (lôs ăl`tōs, lŏs), residential city (1990 pop. 26,303), Santa Clara co., W Calif.; inc. 1952. There is diversified light manufacturing. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 21, 2002 Rambus Inc., world's leading developer of chip-to-chip interface technology, today announced the appointment of Steve Tobak as senior vice president of worldwide marketing. With 22 years of experience in the semiconductor industry, Tobak brings extensive marketing, sales, product development and executive management experience to Rambus. As the company's senior marketing executive, Tobak will have direct responsibility for worldwide corporate marketing, as well as dotted line responsibility for product marketing of the company's three product divisions. Mr. Tobak will primarily be tasked with expanding the market for Rambus' industry-leading interface technology and building equity in the corporate brand. "Steve has had an impressive career successfully building innovative marketing programs for leading organizations," said Geoff Tate, chief executive officer of Rambus Inc. "His proven management skills and broad semiconductor industry experience makes him the ideal candidate to lead Rambus' worldwide marketing efforts." Tobak has held top marketing and sales roles at a number of semiconductor companies, including Tessera tessera: see mosaic. , as senior vice president, marketing and sales; National Semiconductor, as vice president of corporate marketing and communications; and Cyrix, as vice president of corporate and channel marketing. He also served in various executive and management roles at OPTi, Stac Electronics, NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics and Texas Instruments. Tobak most recently served as 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. at InLight Communications, an early stage optical networking component company. Tobak 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 physics and a Master of Science degree in electrical engineering from the State University of New York (body) State University of New York - (SUNY) The public university system of New York State, USA, with campuses throughout the state. , Stony Brook. "I've been following Rambus' technology and growth since its inception. Rambus embodies the spirit of technology innovation, intense customer focus and perseverance required of leading companies that are built to last," said Steve Tobak, senior vice president of worldwide marketing at Rambus. "I'm incredibly proud, energized and looking forward to working with this remarkable engineering and management team to help lead the company into its next phase of development, growth and accomplishment." About Rambus Inc. Rambus (Nasdaq:RMBS RMBS Residential Mortgage-Backed Securities RMBS Rambus, Inc. (NASDAQ stock symbol) RMBS Russian Mortgage-Backed Securities ) is the leading developer and marketer of breakthrough chip-to-chip interface technology, products and solutions to the electronics industry. The company licenses its technology in the form of ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) Pronounced "a-sick." A chip that is custom designed for a specific application rather than a general-purpose chip such as a microprocessor. cells that are incorporated into high-performance memory and logic chips by 25 of the world's top semiconductor makers. The company's ASIC cells and system-level solutions are incorporated into over 300 unique electronic products, including personal computers, workstations, video game consoles This is a list of video game consoles by the era they appeared in. Eras are named based on the dominant console type of the era (even though not all consoles of those eras are of the same type). Some eras are referred to based on how many bits a major console could process. , network routers, HDTVs and set-top boxes. You can reach Rambus at www.rambus.com. |
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