Friday, March 17, 2006

Luxtera Appoints VP

Carlsbad-based Luxtera said this week that it has hired Edward P. (Ted) Holtaway as Senior Vice President of Operations. Holtaway joins the firm from Cymer, where he was EVP of Lithography Systems SOlutions. Luxtera said that Holtaway will help the company bring its CMOS photonic chips to high volume production. Luxtera is developing photonic chip technology that can be fabricated on high volume CMOS process, and just announced a round of funding this week.

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