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The NOR Flash Market is Headed for Big Changes
June 10, 2009
With Spansion moving away from their Wireless business they will have to grow by taking share from other embedded companies like SST (Silicon Storage Technology, Inc), Winbond, Macronix, ISSI, and others. This will also impact long-time rival Numonyx, the merger of Intel's and STmicroelectronics' NOR flash businesses, and even Samsung.
Ex-Spanion CEO Parachutes into SST: Will this be another Dunkirk?
June 8, 2009
Bertrand Cambou has moved into his new role as President at SST, a company mired in a difficult situation: a fabless embedded memory semiconductor company that is trying to re-invent itself as a NAND controller company. In reaching for outside management, the Board acknowledges that the existing senior management team of Bing Yeh (CEO), Dr. Yaw Wen Hu (COO), Paul Lui (SVP), and Chen Tsai (SVP) need an outsider to energize the company.