Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) announced that it has
named board member J. Daniel McCranie as Executive Vice President of
Sales and Applications. Previously, McCranie served as Cypress's
Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing from 1993-2001.
Prior to his initial tenure with Cypress, McCranie was the Chairman,
President and CEO of SEEQ Technology, and has held positions of
increasing responsibility in management, engineering, and sales and
marketing at Harris Corp., Advanced Micro Devices, American Microsystems
Ltd. and Philips Corp. McCranie currently serves as chairman of the
board of ON Semiconductor Corp. and Freescale Semiconductor. He is also
a member of the board of Mentor Graphics Inc.
David Loftus, Executive Vice President of Sales and Applications, has
resigned from Cypress for personal reasons, effective today. Cypress
would like to thank David for his contributions and wish him success in
the future.
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions
that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system
value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, PSoC 4
and PSoC 5LP programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is the world
leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense® touch
sensing, TrueTouch® touchscreens, and trackpad solutions for notebook
PCs and peripherals. Cypress is a world leader in USB controllers, which
enhance connectivity and performance in a wide range of consumer and
industrial products. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM and
nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous major markets,
including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications,
automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global
Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
Cypress, the Cypress logo, TrueTouch, PSoC and CapSense are registered
trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are
property of their owners.
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