[August 25, 2006] Rim Semiconductor Appoints Engineering Vice President; Thomas W. Moxon Brings Leadership to Growing Engineering Team Tweet PORTLAND, Ore. --(Business Wire)-- Aug. 25, 2006 -- Rim Semiconductor Company (OTCBB:RSMI), an emerging provider of semiconductors to the broadband telecommunications industry, today announced that Thomas W. Moxon has been appointed as Vice President of Engineering. Mr. Moxon brings twenty-six years of semiconductor design experience to the growing engineering team of fourteen full-time equivalent engineering employees and consultants. Mr. Moxon has been a full-time consultant to Rim Semi since April 2006. As the User Design Group Manager for VLSI Technology's San Jose Design Center, Mr. Moxon supervised an engineering team that was responsible for over 135 ASIC designs in one year. Prior to joining Rim Semi, he was the Director of Engineering Operations for Enuclia Semiconductor, Inc. of Beaverton, Oregon, where he built the infrastructure of their engineering team, supporting forty developers. Through his consulting company, Moxon Design, Mr. Moxon led numerous projects for Conexant Systems, Cray Research, Hewlett-Packard, SGI, Adobe and others. Mr. Moxon is currently on the editorial board of Chip Design magazine. "I am excited to lead Rim Semiconductor's product development teams, because I believe that the Embarq(TM) family of transport processors will deliver breakthrough solutions in IPTV," said Tom Moxon. "Based on the quality of the existing FPGA version of Embarq(TM), I am confident that the upcoming ASSP version will achieve our design goals." "I welcome Tom to the management team," said Brad Ketch, president and chief executive officer of Rim Semiconductor Company. "Since he has been with us, he has already delivered tremendous value, and is now developing the comprehensive engineering infrastructure necessary for the successful completion of a complete family of ASSP products." About Rim Semiconductor Company Based in Portland, Oregon, Rim Semiconductor is a late-development-stage fabless communications semiconductor company. It has made available an advanced technology that allows data to be transmitted at greater speed and across extended distances over existing copper wire. For more information, visit www.rimsemi.com. [ Back To TMCnet.com's Homepage ]