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Rich Goerner Named Interim CEO at Patriot Scientific

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Patriot Scientific of Carlsbad, Calif., announced the appointment of semiconductor chip industry veteran Rick Goerner as its interim president and CEO, effective immediately. Goerner succeeds Jim Turley, who resigned effective Feb. 28. "Rick has solid operating experience in the semiconductor industry with companies like Phillips, Silicon Systems, TDK (Japan) and Texas Instruments. He has been involved in the integration of acquisitions, including both chip and software companies, from both sides. The board is confident that Rick's knowledge, experience and enthusiasm will help guide Patriot through the current management transition and move our company forward," said Executive Committee Chairman Carlton Johnson. Goerner served as president and COO of the Storage Products Group of Texas Instruments and as president and CEO of the startup company TransDimension Inc., an Irvine, Calif.-based provider of embedded Universal Serial Bus (USB) silicon and software products that was acquired by Oxford Semiconductor in 2005. Goerner has recently been involved in the development of other early stage technology companies, serving as technical advisor, executive chairman, board member and interim president and CEO. Patriot Scientific licenses intellectual property used to develop technologies for wireless devices, smart cards, home appliances, network gateways, set-top boxes, entertainment technology, automotive telematics, biomedical devices and industrial controllers.
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Glossary
chip
1. A localized fracture at the end of a cleaved optical fiber or on a glass surface. 2. An integrated circuit.
nano
An SI prefix meaning one billionth (10-9). Nano can also be used to indicate the study of atoms, molecules and other structures and particles on the nanometer scale. Nano-optics (also referred to as nanophotonics), for example, is the study of how light and light-matter interactions behave on the nanometer scale. See nanophotonics.
photonics
The technology of generating and harnessing light and other forms of radiant energy whose quantum unit is the photon. The science includes light emission, transmission, deflection, amplification and detection by optical components and instruments, lasers and other light sources, fiber optics, electro-optical instrumentation, related hardware and electronics, and sophisticated systems. The range of applications of photonics extends from energy generation to detection to communications and...
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