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RMI Names Former Qualcomm Executive as President and CEO
Cupertino, CA, November 19, 2007 — Raza Microelectronics®, Inc. (RMI®), a leading
supplier of processors for communications and consumer applications, today announced
that it has named Behrooz Abdi as President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Abdi joins
RMI during a period of very rapid business growth and will guide the well -diversified
product and technology company as it accelerates its successful worldwide marketing
strategy. Mr. Abdi succeeds S. Atiq Raza, RMI’s founding Chief Executive Officer, who
will remain Chairman of the Board of Directors.
“We are extremely proud to have Behrooz join RMI. His leadership skills, technology
acumen and business credentials are unequaled,” said Atiq Raza, Chairman of the
Board. “Behrooz’s success in transforming technical innovations into profitable
businesses and his ability to lead groups through extreme growth will be essential as we
take the company to the next level.”
Mr. Abdi, a seasoned veteran with over 22 years of experience in the semiconductor
industry, has a proven track record of growing profitable businesses at Qualcomm, Inc.
(NasdaqGS:QCOM) and Motorola SPS (now Freescale Semiconductor, Inc.). Prior to his
appointment at RMI, Mr. Abdi held the position of Senior Vice President and General
Manager of Qualcomm’s CDMA Technologies (QCT). During his tenure, QCT became
the driving force behind the transition to 65nm and 45nm technologies, successfully
acquired and integrated several product and technology companies and moved into the
top ten list of semiconductor companies.
Prior to joining Qualcomm, Mr. Abdi held leadership and engineering positions of
increasing responsibility at Motorola in its Semiconductor Products Sector (SPS). His
last role at Motorola was Vice President and General Manager for the radio products
division, in charge of RF and mixed signal ICs for the wireless mobile market, where he
led Motorola to its number one market position in RF ICs. Mr. Abdi received his Bachelor
of Science in Electrical Engineering from Montana State University and his Master
degree in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology.
“I am excited to join RMI and its incredibly talented and dedicated team, ” said Mr. Abdi,
President and Chief Executive Officer of RMI. “I feel all the more privileged to succeed
Atiq Raza, whose enormous accomplishments have led the company thus far. RMI is an
excellent company with innovative technology, a diversified customer base and
tremendous revenue growth. I believe that we have a successful path in front of us and I
am pleased to be able to contribute to RMI’s vision for the future.”
RMI products push the edge of processor technology in performance and integration,
and are used by system and original equipment manufacturers to address the enterprise,
consumer and core network markets. The company’s XLR™, XLS™, Alchemy™, and
Orion™ Processor families are highly integrated designs incorporating advanced internal
architectures and built on leading-edge silicon process technologies.
About RMI
RMI is a fabless semiconductor company providing highly integrated, feature-rich
products, ranging from power -optimized System-on-a-Chip (SoC) solutions to High-Performance Processors for the Digital Consumer, Wireless, Networking and Security
markets. RMI offers the most adv anced and the most complete MIPS-Based®
processing solutions with both 32/64-bit architectures supporting frequencies from
300MHz to 1.2 GHz. The company is headquartered in Cupertino, California, with
branch and subsidiary offices in Texas, India, Korea, Japan, Taiwan and China. More
information about RMI can be found on the company’s website at
http://www.RazaMicro.com.
Media Contact - RMI
D. Christopher Keil
Sr. Director, Marketing
Raza Microelectronics, Inc.
ckeil@razamicro.com
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© Copyright 2007 Raza Microelectronics, Inc. All rights reserved. Raza Microelectronics, RMI, the RMI logo, XLR, XLS, Au1200, Alchemy Processor, Orion, and the other trademarks named on the RMI website are trademarks of Raza Microelectronics, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
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