Air Semiconductor Inc. announced today that Gary Johnson, ex-CEO of PortalPlayer, has joined the board as an independent director.

Air Semiconductor is a fabless semiconductor start-up developing a fresh approach to an emerging technology in the mobile sector.  The company has not yet publicly announced its plans and technology.

Most recently Johnson was the president and CEO of PortalPlayer, the leading supplier of low power application processors for personal media players including iPODs.  He took the company public in 2004 and ultimately merged with NVidia earlier this year.

Previous semiconductor experience includes S3 Inc., a provider of multimedia semiconductors where he joined as their first general manger/VP and progressed to becoming the CEO.  Also Johnson spent seven years at National Semiconductor (NSM) founding two wireless business units.  He started his career at British Telecom Research Lab in Martelesham UK. www.air-semi.com