Former Jazz Technologies Inc. chief executive and technology veteran Gil Amelio landed an advisory post at Newport Beach startup InteliCloud Inc.

InteliCloud makes what it calls a “network in a box,” which helps telecommunication companies and others save space and power.

In April, the company closed an initial round of venture funding from Aliso Viejo-based Media One Direct LLC.

InteliCloud said at the time it planned to use the funds to hire some 20 workers.

Amelio is set to help InteliCloud take its products to market.

Amelio ran Jazz from 2007 until last year, when it was bought by Israel’s Tower Semiconductor Ltd. for $40 million in cash and $129 million in debt.

Jazz got its start as the chip making arm of Rockwell International Corp., which no longer exists but left behind Milwaukee-based Rockwell Automation Inc. and Cedar Rapids, Iowa-based Rockwell Collins Inc.

What became Jazz made chips for aerospace and modems.

Rockwell spun off the business as Newport Beach-based Conexant Systems Inc. in 1999.

In 2002, Conexant split off its Newport Beach chip factory as Jazz.

In 2007, Apple Inc. alums Amelio, Steve Wozniak and Ellen Hancock bought Jazz after raising money from investors.

Amelio ran Jazz as chief executive until the sale to Tower and stayed on for a time as an adviser to the board.

He left a top post at Santa Clara-based National Semiconductor Corp. in 1996 to lead a then troubled Apple. He was ousted by the board when Steve Jobs retook the reins.