SmartKem (Manchester, UK), a leading developer of organic semiconductors for the manufacture of low power, robust and lightweight electronic displays, has appointed Billy McLaughlin as its new chief operating officer. McLaughlin’s appointment is a major coup for SmartKem having spent more than two decades in senior roles with some of the semiconductor industry’s giants, including Motorola and GLOBALFOUNDRIES.

Adesto Technologies (Santa Clara, California), a leading provider of application-specific, ultra-low power non-volatile (NVM) products, announced that is has added ACTE A/S (Broendby, Denmark) to its global sales distribution network. ACTE is a specialised worldwide distributor supporting all components of the ZM5101 and ZM5202 Z-wave communication chipsets from Sigma Designs.