Transmeta announced that Dan Hillman has joined its executive team as vice president of engineering. Hillman will be responsible for managing the company’s engineering, research and development efforts. Before joining Transmeta, he served as vice president of Engineering for Mosaid Technology, a licensor of semiconductor intellectual property. Hillman joined Mosaid as a result of the acquisition of Virtual Silicon Technology, a privately held supplier of semiconductor intellectual property, where he served as vice president of engineering. Before joining Virtual Silicon, Hillman served as vice president of engineering for inSilicon, which was acquired by Synopsys. Previously, he was also the Corporate Application Group director for the Physical Synthesis Business Unit of Synopsys for eight years. Hillman also spent 11 years at Apple Computer as a hardware manager. He began his career at RCA and Zilog.