{"id":157297,"date":"2023-02-08T09:23:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/samsung-hires-former-qualcomm-vp-who-is-a-semiconductor-expert"},"modified":"2023-02-08T09:23:23","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:23:23","slug":"samsung-hires-former-qualcomm-vp-who-is-a-semiconductor-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/02\/samsung-hires-former-qualcomm-vp-who-is-a-semiconductor-expert","title":{"rendered":"Samsung hires former Qualcomm VP who is a semiconductor expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/samsung-hires-former-qualcomm-vp-who-is-a-semiconductor-expert.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Samsung has been on a hiring spree of top executives from reputed companies in the last few months. About a week ago, we reported that Samsung had hired <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/two-former-ericsson-executives-join-samsung-electronics\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">two former Ericsson executives to its Samsung Networks team<\/a>. Last December, Samsung <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/news\/hubert-h-lee-to-take-charge-of-samsungs-mx-design-team\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">roped in an ex-Mercedes designer<\/a>, Hubert H. Lee, to lead its smartphone design team. Now, Samsung has now hired former <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/tag\/qualcomm\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Qualcomm<\/a> Vice President Benny Katibian.<\/p>\n<p>Benny previously worked for Qualcomm as the Vice President of the company\u2019s engineering division. After joining <a href=\"https:\/\/www.samsung.com\/\">Samsung<\/a>, Benny will serve as the head of the Samsung Austin Research Center (SARC) and the Advanced Computing Lab (ACL), which are the core R&amp;D centers of Samsung Electronics <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/tag\/usa\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">USA<\/a>, as per <a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesskorea.co.kr\/news\/articleView.html?idxno=108929\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Business Korea<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>According to reports, Benny Katibian is an expert in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/tag\/semiconductors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">semiconductors<\/a> and was in charge of self-driving systems, including ADAS (Advanced Driving Assistance Systems) at Qualcomm. Later, he also served as the COO of the North American Cooperation in Xiaopeng, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sammobile.com\/tag\/china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Chinese<\/a> electric car company. He also worked as the head of the development of self-driving chips.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Samsung has been on a hiring spree of top executives from reputed companies in the last few months. About a week ago, we reported that Samsung had hired two former Ericsson executives to its Samsung Networks team. Last December, Samsung roped in an ex-Mercedes designer, Hubert H. Lee, to lead its smartphone design team. Now, [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6,1491],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-157297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157297","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157297"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157297\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}