Walden C. Rhines

Who is Walden C. Rhines?

Dr. Rhines has been a member of TriQuint Board since 1995. During that

time, he has also served as Chairman and CEO of Mentor Graphics

Corporation, an Electronic Design Automation company with revenue of

over $700 million. Prior to joining Mentor Graphics, Rhines was

Executive Vice President of the Semiconductor Group of Texas

Instruments Inc. where he shared responsibility for the TI Components

Sector and had direct responsibility for all of TI's Semiconductor

business. During his 21 years at TI, Rhines managed TI’s thrust into

digital signal processing and supervised that business from inception

with the TMS 320 family of DSP’s through growth to become the

cornerstone of TI’s semiconductor technology. He was also responsible

for development of the first TI speech synthesis devices (used in

“Speak Spell”) and is co-inventor of the GaN blue-violet light

emitting diode (now important for DVD players). He was President of

TI’s Data Systems Group and held numerous other semiconductor executive

management positions. He is currently Vice-Chairman of the Electronic

Design Automation Consortium (EDAC) and serves on the Boards of the

Semiconductor Research Corporation, Cirrus Logic, Mentor Graphics,

Lewis Clark College and the Oregon Engineering and Technology

Industry Council. He holds a BSE in metallurgical engineering from the

University of Michigan, an MS and PhD from Stanford University, an MBA from Southern Methodist University and an Honorary Doctor of Technology

from Nottingham Trent University.