Tuesday 15th Jun 2010
Press Release
eASIC Appoints Richard Heye as COO
Seasoned Semiconductor Industry Executive Joins eASIC to Manage the Company Operations Ramp Through the Next Phase of Growth Acceleration
eASIC Corporation, a provider of NEW ASIC devices, today announced that Richard Heye has been appointed as Chief Operating Officer. Heye brings 30 years of executive management, engineering and operations experience from within the semiconductor industry. Heye is chartered with spearheading eASIC’s engineering development of, as well as, growing operations to meet the rapid customer ramp. Heye will report directly to CEO, Ronnie Vasishta.
Previously, Heye served as the Senior Vice President of the SSD Division at SanDisk. Prior to SanDisk, Heye served as the General Manager of the Discrete Graphics Desk Top Business Unit at ATI Technologies. Previously Heye held a series of engineering, infrastructure creation and general management roles at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), where he is credited with establishing a solid desktop, mobile and server infrastructure in the marketplace for Athlon FX, Athlon 64, and Opteron. Heye’s career also includes Director of Desktop Macintosh products at Apple Computer. Heye began his career as a designer and engineering manager within the Digital Equipment Corp. microprocessor group.
“We look forward to the significant expansion of skills and bandwidth that Richard brings to eASIC which is going to be invaluable as move into the next phase of the company growth service many multinational multi-billion dollar customers,” commented Ronnie Vasishta, President and Chief Executive Officer at eASIC. “Richard’s operations experience is valuable as we now see a significant ramp in production on 90nm and 45nm. Also Richard’s engineering background will be essential in the release of our 28nm product.”
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