CENiX Inc. Announces Dr. Curtis J. Crawford to Join Board of Directors.Business Editors LEHIGH VALLEY The Lehigh Valley or the Allentown-Bethlehem-Easton, PA-NJ metropolitan area is a metropolitan region in eastern Pennsylvania and western New Jersey, in the United States. It is the third-most populated metropolitan region in Pennsylvania, after Philadelphia and Pittsburgh. , Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 18, 2001 CENiX Inc., a leader in the design and automated manufacture of next-generation, high-speed optoelectronic interfaces, today announced the appointment of Dr. Curtis J. Crawford to the company's board of directors. Crawford is chairman of the board of directors of ON Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq:ONNN). Until early this year, Crawford served as chairman, president and chief executive officer of ZiLOG Inc., a producer of application specific standard products in the semiconductor industry. Crawford is a forceful advocate of a customer-driven, systems-level approach to the electronics business. "We are extremely pleased to have Curt join the CENiX board during this early stage of our corporation," said Dr. Melvyn Dixon, chairman, president and chief executive officer of CENiX. "Curt's outstanding leadership and industry experience will be an invaluable asset for us moving forward as we define CENiX's global presence and leadership position in the optoelectronics marketplace." From 1995 to January 1998, Crawford was group president, Microelectronics Group, Lucent Technologies Inc., and also served concurrently as president, Intellectual Property Division from October 1997. From 1993 to 1995, he was president of AT&T Microelectronics, a business unit of AT&T Corp. Under his leadership, the business designed, manufactured and sold semiconductors and electronic components worldwide for applications in telecommunications, networked computing, multimedia, wireless and consumer electronics. In addition to his role as chairman of the board of ON Semiconductor, Crawford serves as a director of the DuPont Corp. and ITT ITT Initial Teacher Training (UK) ITT I Think That ITT Invitation To Tender ITT Individual Time Trial (professional cycling) ITT Intention-To-Treat ITT In This Thread (forums) Industries Inc. He also serves as a trustee of DePaul University DePaul University[1] is a private institution of higher education and research in Chicago, Illinois, USA. . About CENiX Inc.: CENiX was established in July 2000 to supply next-generation, high-speed integrated optical subsystems satisfying the explosive bandwidth requirements Bandwidth requirements (communications) The channel bandwidths needed to transmit various types of signals, using various processing schemes. Every signal observed in practice can be expressed as a sum (discrete or over a frequency continuum) of sinusoidal of the Internet age. Optoelectronic interfaces are required to seamlessly move data and voice signals between the electrical and optical domains of the optical communications Optical communications The transmission of speech, data, video, and other information by means of the visible and the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. infrastructure. Early stage funding was led by the Silicon Valley firm, Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers and included Cisco Systems “Cisco” redirects here. For other uses, see Cisco (disambiguation). Cisco System,Inc. (NASDAQ: CSCO, HKSE: 4333 ) is an American multinational corporation with 54,000 employees and annual revenue of US $28.48 billion as of 2006. , Dongah Elecomm and other strategic individuals. CENiX has its manufacturing operations Manufacturing operations concern the operation of a facility, as opposed to maintenance, supply and distribution, health, and safety, emergency response, human resources, security, information technology and other infrastructural support organizations. and corporate headquarters in Allentown, Pa. and its product development and marketing in Irvine, Calif. For more information, go to www.cenixinc.com. Note to Editors: CENiX is a trademark of CENiX Inc. Note: A Photo is available at URL URL in full Uniform Resource Locator Address of a resource on the Internet. The resource can be any type of file stored on a server, such as a Web page, a text file, a graphics file, or an application program. : http://www.businesswire.com/cgi-bin/photoblob.sh?pw.061201/bb |
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