PETAH TIKVA, Israel--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct 26, 2026--
RAAAM Memory Technologies, a startup company providing an ultra high-density, low-power on-chip memory technology, today announced the appointment of Hong Hao, former executive at Intel Foundry and Samsung Electronics, as Strategic Advisor. In this role, Mr. Hao will work closely with RAAAM's executive team to support the company’s strategic growth and accelerate market engagement with customers and ecosystem partners across the USA.
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Mr. Hao brings over 30 years of leadership in semiconductor product development, and global foundry business and commercial development. Most recently, he served as Corporate Vice President and General Manager of Worldwide Business Development and Sales at Intel Foundry, and led overall business development strategy and global customer engagement execution.
Before his tenure at Intel, he served as Senior Vice President and Head of Samsung’s North America Foundry Business, where he directed commercial strategy and customer engagement, marketing, technical support, and foundry ecosystem growth. While at Samsung System LSI, he also managed the engineering execution of high-efficiency, high-performance ARM-based SoC products for mobile and data center architectures.
Over his multi-decade career, Hong Hao has established a proven track record of cultivating key client relationships, accelerating semiconductor business growth, and guiding complex SoC and ASIC initiatives. His deep domain expertise across foundry management, IP integration, and partner enablement will be invaluable as RAAAM expands its strategic footprint and commercial momentum.
"Hong Hao is a highly respected industry veteran with a successful track record in scaling foundry ecosystems and driving commercial growth," said Robert Giterman, Co-Founder & CEO of RAAAM Memory Technologies. "As chip designers face severe SRAM scaling and power limitations, RAAAM’s GCRAM technology provides a critical, cost-effective breakthrough. Hong’s strategic guidance will be invaluable as we expand our engagement with major US semiconductor companies and ecosystem partners."
"RAAAM’s innovative GCRAM technology addresses one of the most pressing bottlenecks in modern SoC design, achieving ultra-high memory density and power efficiency using standard CMOS processes," said Hong Hao . "I am excited to advise RAAAM at this pivotal stage of growth. The team has engineered a genuinely disruptive solution, and I look forward to helping them extend their footprint and deepen relationships within the US semiconductor community and beyond."
Through this strategic appointment, RAAAM reaffirms its commitment to delivering next-generation on-chip memory solutions that enable chipmakers to cut silicon area, lower power consumption, and reduce manufacturing costs, and boost performance without altering standard fabrication flows.
About RAAAM Memory Technologies Ltd.
RAAAM has developed the most cost-effective on-chip memory technology in the semiconductor industry, offering up to 50% area savings and up to 3x power reduction over high-density SRAM. Its patented GCRAM technology can serve as a drop-in SRAM replacement in SoCs and is fully compatible with standard CMOS processes, allowing designers to integrate more memory in a smaller die area and less power consumption.
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RAAAM Memory Technologies Appoints Former Intel and Samsung Foundry Executive Hong Hao as Strategic Advisor
MELBOURNE, Australia (AP) — Australia’s Parliament resumed work on Monday with increased security and paid tribute to lawmaker Helen Haines who was critically injured last week in an alleged act of political violence.
Security screening measures were enhanced at Parliament House in the first session since Oct. 19, when authorities allege a driver rammed an SUV into Haines twice outside her electorate office. She remained in a Melbourne hospital on Monday in a serious but stable condition after both her legs were amputated.
A 43-year-old man has been charged with offenses including intentionally causing serious injury. Police have not revealed a motive.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese was the first of several lawmakers to pay tribute to Haines, a respected independent. He proposed a motion expressing the Parliament’s wish for her recovery and support for her family. Her husband Phil Haines looked on from Parliament’s public gallery.
“While the investigations go on, we must not rush to conclusions. But nor can we shrug off the very real rise in anger that distorts and corrodes our public discourse,” Albanese told Parliament.
“Enabled by the anonymity and speed afforded by social media, we are seeing rage and aggression increasing, not just in politics, but toward workers in hospitality, in retail, in schools and in hospitals, toward police, paramedics and other officials,” Albanese added.
Albanese described a “normalization of the language of grievance and violence.”
“We must not conflate the robustness of Australian democracy with this rising tide of rage,” Albanese said.
Australian Federal Police Commissioner Krissy Barrett told Australian Broadcasting Corp. on Sunday threats against lawmakers were evenly spread between male and female politicians. But threats against women were more “personalized.”
Barrett said there was a “direct correlation” between the language political rivals use against each other and threats and abuse directed at lawmakers from the public.
Critics of Australian politics often complain that language that lawmakers sometimes use against each other would not be tolerated in any other workplace in the country.
Opposition leader Angus Taylor told Parliament he disagreed with those who saw a “causal connection between robust parliamentary debate and political violence.”
“We never allow that vigorous parliamentary debate to spill over into violence,” Taylor said.
Speaker Milton Dick noted that some lawmakers had suggested colleagues sign a so-called civility pledge in response to the alleged attack on Haines.
“This is a personal decision and I encourage all Members (of Parliament) to continue these discussions to decide the best way for themselves” to respond, Dick told Parliament.
Two months ago, Haines became the first Australian lawmaker to make such a pledge, advocated by a think tank established last year, Compassion in Politics Australia. Around six federal and state lawmakers have since committed to sign.
Independent lawmaker Kate Chaney said she intended to follow Haines’ example by making such a pledge.
“I think there’s something really symbolic about the fact that Helen was the only federal M.P. (Member of Parliament) to have signed this,” Chaney told the ABC.
“It is a very simple thing. It just says ‘in my political life, I pledge to act with honesty, respect and compassion.’ And that feels to me like a simple and poignant way to honor the contribution Helen’s made to the Parliament,” Chaney added.
The think tank's director, Jonathan Granger, said Haines approached his organization to sign the pledge in August after a media launch of the civility pledge attracted little attention. The pledge was a concept adopted from Compassion in Politics United Kingdom.
More Australian lawmakers had approached the organization to make the pledge than had been added to its website, Granger said. The organization was hoping for many more, given the focus in Parliament on Monday.
“It's just sad that it had to happen like this. ... What happened to Helen Haines was just a tragedy,” Granger said.
A photo of independent member of parliament Helen Haines is shown on the window of her electoral office in Wangaratta, Australia, Tuesday, Oct. 20, 2026. (James Ross/AAPImage via AP)
Independent member of parliament Zali Steggall sits next to a cutout cockatoo during a tribute to colleague Helen Haines, who was critically injured on Oct. 19 by a driver who struck her with a vehicle, at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
Independent members of parliament react during a tribute to colleague Helen Haines, who was critically injured on Oct. 19 by a driver who struck her with a vehicle, at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (Mick Tsikas/AAP Image via AP)
Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese pays tribute to independent lawmaker Helen Haines, who was critically injured on Oct. 19 when a driver struck her with a vehicle, at Parliament House in Canberra, Australia, Monday, Oct. 26, 2026. (Lukas Coch/AAP Image via AP)
