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Apr 29, 2008
As an application engineer your main focus is full responsibility for effective and efficient implementation of ASML systems at a customer production site. Span of activities includes optimizing the use of ASML systems into a specific customer produc... more

Company name: ASML · Location: Veldhoven,

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More executives leave AMD in organizational reshuffle

13 May 2008 Mario Rivas (pictured), formerly Executive Vice President, Computing Solutions Group and Michel Cadieux, formerly Senior Vice President and Chief Talent Officer, have left AMD to pursue new opportunities, according to the Company, as part of a wider transformation of the struggling microprocessor and graphics chip set producer.

Karl-Henrik Sundström appointed CFO for NXP

13 May 2008

NXP Semiconductors has appointed former Ericsson CFO Karl-Henrik Sundström (pictured) to serve as Chief Financial Officer and Executive Vice President. Mr. Sundström replaces Peter van Bommel, who departed the company for personal reasons while agreeing to aid the company in its upcoming joint venture with STMicroelectronics. 

Tom Georgis joins SolarReserve as VP of Development

14 May 2008 Tom Georgis (pictured), an operations and technology expert of the energy industry, has been enlisted by SolarReserve to oversee the company’s solar power projects both in the U.S. and internationally. Georgis will apply his years of technology and power project development experience to the role of Vice President of Development.

Sheldon Reinhart joins ICP Solar as CFO and COO

09 May 2008 Sheldon Reinhart, former CFO for Strategy First, Inc. has been appointed CFO and COO of ICP Solar Technologies, Inc. Bringing over 20 years of finance and technology experience to the role, Mr. Reinhart will oversee the company’s financial affairs and global operations in the role that was vacated by Leon Assayag in early May, who left the company to pursue other opportunities.

Recruitment News

MIPS Technologies teams with Portuguese University to offer design training

28 April 2008

MIPS Technologies has collaborated with the Faculdade de Engenharia da Universidade do Porto (FEUP) to establish an engineering design course that will see the University’s Electrical and Computer Engineering department provide a research foundation for students as well as an opportunity to access MIPS Technologies’ IP for research purposes. 

iSLI to present 3rd Digital Test course in UK

09 April 2008

The Institute for System Level Integration, iSLI, has announced that it is hosting a course on Digital Test Technology and Design for Test (DFT) in Bath, England in May. Running from the 6th to the 9th of May, the course is being run by iSLI in collaboration with Silicon South West. 

AMD to cut 10% of workforce

08 April 2008

The AMD rumor mill has been proved correct in its doubt for the future of the company’s staff. A planned 10 percent cut in the company workforce was confirmed yesterday, which could mean close to 1,600 layoffs in store for the company by the end of the third quarter of 2008. 

Nova to cut jobs by 6%

03 April 2008

Israel-based Nova Measuring Instruments Ltd. has announced its intention to cut 6% of its approximately 290-strong workforce, according to a story at  EETimes. The reason given for the cuts is the weakening dollar. Nova’s business dealings are mainly carried out in U.S. dollars, while the majority of its daily running costs are incurred in New Israeli Shekels.