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Inphi Corporation has appointed Ford Tamer as Chief Executive Officer for Inphi effective immediately.
Prior to joining Inphi, Tamer served as CEO of Telegent Systems, Senior VP and General Manager of Broadcom’s Infrastructure Networking Group, which he grew to $1.2 billion in revenue in five years. He was also CEO of Agere, which was acquired by Lucent Microelectronics, and VP at Agere Systems. Tamer was also a partner at Khosla Ventures, where he assisted in the growth of cleantech and IT businesses. Tamer holds an M.S. and Ph.D. in engineering from MIT. He serves as Chairman of Senton.
“I look forward to working with the Inphi team, and leverage Inphi’s position in computing and networking, to drive the next stage of the company’s growth,” said Tamer. “Inphi’s core competencies in advanced analogue circuit design, signal integrity, power management, packaging, and process technologies should bolster the company’s ability to pursue solid growth in the years ahead.”
Tamer succeeds Young K. Sohn, President and CEO, who will stay on as a senior adviser to the company during this transition. Sohn, who is retiring from Inphi, will not seek re-election as a director at Inphi’s forthcoming 2011 AGM of stockholders that is expected to take place in May 2012.
“I am proud to have been so closely involved in building Inphi’s position as a leading provider of high-speed interface products that enable cloud infrastructure, and I’m confident in Ford’s ability to take the company to the next level,” said Young Sohn. “Ford’s expertise in the semiconductor space makes him well suited to take over the leadership position at Inphi and drive long-term growth to improve shareholder value.”
“Young has played a significant role in the creation and successful development of Inphi over the past five years, resulting in its successful initial public offering in November 2010 and the company’s strong competitive market position today,” said Dado Banatao, Chairman of Inphi. “We thank him for his leadership and years of service to Inphi and wish him well in his retirement.”
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RFMD to expand PowerSmart family for a top customer
The next-generation devices include a highly anticipated LTE smartphone that will feature multiple variants of RFMD’s family of ultra-high efficiency WCDMA and 4G LTE power amplifiers
RFMD is currently supporting multiple devices for this top-tier smartphone manufacturer with a broad range of high-performance products. These include the PowerSmart power platforms, ultra-high efficiency 3G/4G power amplifiers, and multiple switch-based components.
Eric Creviston, president of RFMD’s Cellular Products Group, said, “RFMD continues to increase our exposure to the world’s leading smartphone manufacturers. With these wins, we expand our participation in a growing family of highly popular smartphones and bolster our position in the high- growth LTE category. We look forward to expanding our content opportunity in future devices as new programs ramp and as new product families are introduced.”
RFMD’s 3G and 4G LTE PAs extend battery life and reduce the thermal impact of data usage in smartphones. The product family currently covers WCDMA bands 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 8, and LTE bands 4, 7, 11, 13, 17, 18, 20, and 21 — addressing the most common UMTS/HSPA+ and LTE frequency bands and band combinations. Additional multimode, multi-band (MMMB) and single-mode LTE variants will be introduced in the first half of calendar 2012.
RFMD offers a broad portfolio of 3G and 4G LTE solutions in single-mode and converged architectures to ensure alignment with leading chipset providers and enable worldwide network compatibility. RFMD’s 3G and 4G LTE product portfolio reduces the thermal impact of data usage in smartphones while enabling increased battery life during data-based applications, such as web surfing, video calls and internet radio services.
March 2012
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