Altera Announces New Senior Vice President of Worldwide Sales.
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SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States
San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 11, 2000
Altera Corporation (Nasdaq: ALTR), announced today that Mike Jacobs Mike Jacobs can refer to: - Mike Jacobs (baseball player), an American baseball player, playing for the Florida Marlins
- Mike Jacobs (boxing), a member of the International Boxing Hall of Fame
has joined the company as Senior Vice President - Worldwide Sales,
reporting to the President and CEO (1) (Chief Executive Officer) The highest individual in command of an organization. Typically the president of the company, the CEO reports to the Chairman of the Board. , Rodney Smith. This position was
previously held by Pete Smyth who retired in December after 10 years
with Altera. Prior to joining Altera, Mr. Jacobs was Vice President of
North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. Sales at Analog Devices Analog Devices (NYSE: ADI) is an American multinational producer of semiconductor devices. Analog specializes in ADC, DAC, MEMS, and DSP chips for consumer and industrial goods. Analog is presently designing circuits in the 65 nanometer to 3 µm process feature sizes range. , a position he held for the past
three years. Before his tenure at Analog Devices, Mr. Jacobs held senior
sales positions at National Semiconductor, Lattice Semiconductor,
Advance Micro Devices and Texas Instruments.
Altera Corporation, The Programmable Solutions Company(TM), was
founded in 1983 and is a leading supplier of programmable logic devices
and associated logic development software tools. Programmable logic
devices are semiconductor chips that can be programmed on-site, using
software tools that run on personal computers or engineering
workstations. User benefits include ease of use, lower risk, and fast
time-to-market. Altera's CMOS-based programmable logic devices
address high-speed, high-density and low-power applications in the
telecommunications, data communications, computer peripheral, and
industrial markets. Altera common stock is traded on the Nasdaq Stock
Market Nasdaq stock market
The first electronic stock market listing over 5000 companies. The Nasdaq stock market comprises two separate markets, namely the Nasdaq National Market, which trades large, active securities and the Nasdaq Smallcap Market that trades emerging growth companies. under the symbol ALTR. More information on Altera can be obtained
on the Internet at http://www.altera.com.
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