Soitec (Euronext Paris), the world's leading supplier of silicon-on-insulator (SOI) and
advanced solutions for the electronics and energy industries, today announced the
appointment of Steve Longoria to Senior Vice President Worldwide Strategic Business
Development. An industry veteran with extensive experience and a proven track record
primarily at IBM Microelectronics, Longoria joins Soitec's leadership team with
responsibility for strategic business development activities worldwide, to drive FD-SOI
adoption. This appointment comes at a very strategic time for the company, as the SOI
Industry Consortium recently announced the substantial advantages of FD-SOI for next-
generation mobile and consumer applications.
"With his extensive knowledge of the overall microelectronics business and deep
understanding of the role substrates play in chip design and manufacturing, Steve
Longoria is a perfect fit for our senior management team," says Paul Boudre, Chief
Operating Officer of Soitec. "He has consistently demonstrated sharp business
development acumen and organizational management skills in the context of an
international senior management team. This makes him an outstanding choice to drive the
adoption of our new FD-SOI platform for mobile consumer devices. As such, Steve will
also work closely with the SOI Industry Consortium and its members, as well as
foundries and the 'fabless' community."
Longoria brings over 20 years of experience and success in sales, engineering and
management on the cutting-edge of technology, leading and implementing complete
technology product solutions. During his long career at IBM, Longoria's many roles
included vice president of semiconductor solutions, where he was responsible for the
external semiconductor business targeted at the infrastructure and consumer markets.
Most recently he was VP of Asia Pacific sales with NetLogic Microsystems.
The Soitec Group is the world's leading innovator and provider of the engineered
substrate solutions that serve as the foundation for today's most advanced
microelectronic products. The group leverages its proprietary Smart Cut(TM) technology
to engineer new substrate solutions, such as silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafers, which
became the first high-volume application for this proprietary technology. Since then,
SOI has emerged as the material platform of the future, enabling the production of
higher performing, faster chips that consume less power.
Today, Soitec produces more than 80 percent of the world's SOI wafers. Headquartered in
Bernin, France, with two high-volume fabs on-site, Soitec has offices throughout the
United States, Japan and Taiwan, and a new production site in Singapore.
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