Mips Technologies has named Art Swift as vice president of marketing. Swift has held a range of senior marketing and general management leadership roles including president and CEO of Unidym and president, CEO and senior vice president of marketing at Transmeta Corporation. Prior to Transmeta, he was COO at embedded software provider Lynuxworks and vice president and general manager of several large divisions of chipmaker Cirrus Logic. He also held senior marketing, business development and engineering positions with Summit Microelectronics, Sun Microsystems, Digital Equipment, Bipolar Integrated Technology, and Fairchild Semiconductor.
The most recent VP of marketing prior to Art Swift was Jack Browne.