Technology >> CEO Interviews >> February 23, 2009
JOHN BOURGOIN, President and Chief Executive Officer of MIPS Technologies, Inc.,
brings more than 30 years of semiconductor experience to his role, drawing from
past roles in business management and microprocessor development at MIPS
Technologies and AMD, and earlier, in engineering management at Motorola
Semiconductor Products Division in Phoenix. Previously, Mr. Bourgoin was Senior
Vice President of Silicon Graphics, Inc., and President of the MIPS Group of
SGI. Prior to that, he was Group Vice President of the Computation Products
Group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Bourgoin received a BSEE from the
University of Illinois and an MBA from Arizona State University. Profile
TWST: We would like to begin with a brief historical sketch of the company and a picture of the things you are doing at the present time.
Mr. Bourgoin: MIPS has been around in various forms