Among the other marketing executives overseeing blue-chip brands who are on the agenda are Mark Addicks of General Mills; Joaquin Hidalgo of Nike; Lisa Klauser of Unilever; Michael Mendenhall of Hewlett-Packard; James R. Stengel, who is retiring from his post at Procter & Gamble, the world's largest advertiser; and Joseph V. Tripodi of Coca-Cola.
"Paul is very much broader in the area that he has vision," said Steven M. Mollenkopf, the executive vice president overseeing Qualcomm's chip development, who has been with the company since 1994.
In the lawsuit, the U.S. Attorney's office alleges Raj Rajaratnam, co-founder of Galleon Group, a hedge fund, and five others got details of a shakeup at AMD that resulted in the creation of a new company dubbed GlobalFoundries to oversee AMD's chip factories, according to the Journal.
Halla's dream of the PC-on-a-chip started at his former job as an executive vice president at LSILogic Corp., where he oversaw the development of the $150 chip at the heart of the Sony Playstation.
Doug Darrow, the Texas Instruments business manager overseeing the development of the D.L.P. chip, predicts that the costs of digital projection systems will come down.
The transaction, which A.M.D. expects will close in early 2009, must be approved by shareholders, regulators and officials in New York and Germany who oversee government subsidies for the local chip plants.
"Semiconductor guys are being a little more cautious in investing in plants and equipment," Jim Grossman, a chip analyst at Thrivent Financial, which oversees $57 billion and owns Applied Materials shares, said before the company reported its results.
"We think this is going to spawn the next generation of growth in the industry," says James Kahle, 45, the renowned chip designer and IBM Fellow who oversaw the creation of Cell.
The current Power4, introduced in 2001, runs at a peak speed of 1.45 gigahertz and is the fastest chip of its kind, Joel Tendler, an I.B.M. executive helping oversee Power5's development, said yesterday.
Mr. Mansfield already oversees several technologies that are part of the iPhone, including the A4 chip, the retina display and touch screens, said Steve Dowling, an Apple spokesman.
