PSi Technologies Announces Appointment of Jim Knapp
March 18 2004 - 4:40PM
PR Newswire (US)
PSi Technologies Announces Appointment of Jim Knapp Industry
Veteran Joins Company as Vice President of Technology, Package
Development and Central Engineering SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO and MANILA,
Philippines, March 18 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- PSi Technologies
Holdings, Inc., , a leading independent provider of assembly and
test services for the power semiconductor market, announced today
the appointment of Jim Knapp as Vice President of Technology,
Package Development and Central Engineering. Knapp is an
accomplished technologist with over 30 years of development
engineering and manufacturing management experience in the
semiconductor industry at companies such as ON Semiconductor and
Motorola. His technical experience spans the entire range of
engineering, from package and product development through high
volume manufacturing. "Jim is an outstanding addition to PSi," said
Arthur J. Young, Jr., Chairman and CEO. "We expect that his
extensive industry expertise, experience and technology leadership
skills will be advantageous to the Company's efforts in expanding
its Packaging Power Solutions(TM) product portfolio and services
over the next year." Among other initiatives, Knapp will be leading
the PowerQFN(TM) (Quad Flat Pack Non-Lead) Packaging Platform
development effort at PSi Technologies. Knapp's previous tenure at
ON Semiconductor involved managing its Core Development Team
responsible for the development of advanced semiconductor packages
and manufacturing processes for ON's power discrete, integrative
passives and power components products. In addition to developing
SMT materials for leadless surface mount, flip chip and chip scale
packages, Knapp was one of the leaders behind the lead-free and
green package development effort at ON. He also served as one of
ON's principal troubleshooters and provided lead technical support
for its internal and external manufacturing centers and worldwide
foundries in Europe and Asia. At Motorola, Knapp served as a
Packaging Development Manager in the Semiconductor Products
Sector's Advanced Package Design and Automation Center (APDAC). His
17-year package and product development tenure at Motorola spanned
industries ranging from consumer electronics, automotive,
computers, optoelectronics, telecommunications and defense. Knapp's
extensive experience with "Design For Manufacturability" has
resulted in cost effective manufacturing processes and packages.
Knapp served on Motorola's technical advisory board and also
performed troubleshooting for both its internal and external
worldwide manufacturing centers. Knapp led the engineering team
responsible for the package design, development and pilot-line
manufacturing of the world's first commercially available
bi-directional parallel fiber-optic link called OPTOBUS. The
product involved an advanced optoelectronics MCM package that
contained transceiver waveguides, laser diode arrays,
photodetectors, transceiver drivers, and a fiber optic array
interconnect. OPTOBUS was the forerunner of the Very Short Reach
(VSR) transceivers used in today's telecommunications industry.
Knapp's foray into the optoelectronics industry also included
leading the package development of CCD and CMOS-based array
imagers. Knapp's innovative contributions to the industry include
over 33 patents, with 11 pending as well as five publications. In
addition, he has received Motorola's Global Achievement and Silver
Quill Awards and Distinguished Innovator Award at both Motorola and
ON Semiconductor. His work is well respected in the industry and
his packaging accomplishments span areas such as conventional lead
frame design, TAB, Flip chip, MCMs, BGAs, Molded Array Package
Singulation (MAPS), plating and bump, transfer molding, QFPs and
Power QFNs. About PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc. PSi Technologies
is an independent semiconductor assembly and test service provider
focused on the power semiconductor market. The Company provides
comprehensive package design, assembly and test services for power
semiconductors used in telecommunications and networking systems,
computers and computer peripherals, consumer electronics,
electronic office equipment, automotive systems and industrial
products. PSi's customers include most of the major power
semiconductor manufacturers in the world such as Fairchild
Semiconductor, Infineon Technologies, ON Semiconductor, Philips
Semiconductor, and ST Microelectronics. For more information, visit
the Company's web site at http://www.psitechnologies.com/ or call:
Edison G. Yap, CFA PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc. (63-2) 837-7702;
or (63-917) 894-1335 Jocelyn Hunter (General Information) Financial
Relations Board (415) 248-3433 Safe Harbor Statement This press
release contains forward-looking statements that involve risks and
uncertainties. Actual outcomes may differ materially. Factors that
might cause a difference include, but are not limited to, those
relating to the pace of development and market acceptance of PSi's
products and the power semiconductor market generally,
commercialization and technological delays or difficulties, the
impact of competitive products and technologies, competitive
pricing pressures, manufacturing risks, the possibility of our
products infringing patents and other intellectual property of
third parties, product defects, costs of product development,
manufacturing and government regulation, risks inherent in emerging
markets, including but not limited to, currency volatility and
depreciation, restricted access to financing, and political and
social unrest. PSi undertakes no responsibility to update these
forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after
the date hereof. More detailed information about potential factors
that could affect PSi's financial results is included in the
documents PSi files from time to time with the Securities and
Exchange Commission. DATASOURCE: PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc.
CONTACT: Edison G. Yap, CFA of PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc.,
(63-2) 837-7702, or (63-917) 894-1335, ; or General Information,
Jocelyn Hunter of Financial Relations Board, +1-415-248-3433, , for
PSi Technologies Holdings, Inc. Web site:
http://www.psitechnologies.com/
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