- Current report filing (8-K)

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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

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FORM 8-K

 

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CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d) OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported)  December 29, 2009

 

 

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   MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

(Exact Name of Registrant as Specified in its Charter)

 

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Delaware (State or Other Jurisdiction of Incorporation or Organization)

000-24487 (Commission File Number)

77-0322161 (IRS Employer Identification No.)

955 East Arques Avenue

Sunnyvale, CA  94085

(Address of Principal Executive Offices, including zip code)

 

[phone]

(Registrant's telephone number including area code)

 

1225 Charleston Road, Mountain View, CA  94043

(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)

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Item 5.02.   Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

(b)  In anticipation of his retirement from the Company as described in (c) below, on December 29, 2009 John Bourgoin submitted his resignation from the Board of Directors of the Company, effective December 31, 2009.

(c)  On December 30, 2009, the Company issued a press release (attached hereto as Exhibit 99.01) confirming that, as previously announced, John Bourgoin, the Company’s President, CEO and director will retire effective December 31, 2009.  The Company announced that the Board of Directors expects to appoint a successor to Mr. Bourgoin in January 2010.

The Company further announced that Anthony B. Holbrook, the Chairman of the Company’s Board of Directors, had been appointed interim President and CEO to serve until such time as a new President and CEO is appointed.

Mr. Holbrook, age 70, has served as a director of the Company since July 1998 and as Chairman of the Board since August 2003.  He is the retired Chief Technical Officer of Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. or AMD. From 1973 until his retirement in 1994, Mr. Holbrook served in a number of executive positions with AMD including Chief Operating Officer from 1982 to 1989, President from 1986 to 1990, and Vice Chairman and Chief Technical Officer from 1989 to 1994. He continued to serve as Vice Chairman of AMD’s Board of Directors after his retirement until April 1996. Prior to his employment with AMD, Mr. Holbrook held engineering and general management positions with Fairchild Semiconductor, Inc. and Computer Microtechnology, Inc.

Item 9.01.   Financial Statements and Exhibits.

 

(d)       Exhibits

 

99

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Press Release, dated December 30, 2009, entitled "MIPS Technologies CEO John Bourgoin Confirms Year-End Retirement"

 

 

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SIGNATURES

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

	MIPS TECHNOLOGIES, INC. (Registrant)
Date:  December 30, 2009	By:	/s/   GAIL SHULMAN
		Name:  Gail Shulman
		Title:  Vice President, General Counsel & Secretary

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EXHIBIT INDEX

 

Exhibit No.			Description
99	.01		Press Release, dated December 30, 2009, entitled "MIPS Technologies CEO John Bourgoin Confirms Year-End Retirement"