Zilog named Mike Speckman vice president of worldwide sales. Prior to joining Zilog, Speckman, 55, held senior management positions at Fujitsu, Insilica, Waferscale Integration, AMD, and Symwave. He has three key areas of focus: the embedded flash, universal remote control and secured transactions markets.

On April 2006 Zilog has been named Nick Antonopoulos executive vice president of worldwide sales. He left the company some month ago and at September 27, 2006 he has been named senior vice president of business development at TPL Group, a specialist for intellectual property development and management.