Catalyst Semiconductor Board Elevates Gelu Voicu to President & Chief Executive Officer and Appoints Him to the Board of Directors.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SUNNYVALE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 30, 2002 Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. (Nasdaq:CATS) today announced that its Board of Directors has promoted Gelu Voicu to President and Chief Executive Officer and appointed him to the Board. Voicu, who has been with the Company since October 1993, was appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. by the board in August following the departure of Radu Vanco. Until then, Voicu had served as Vice President of Engineering and Manufacturing, a position held since April 1998. Other management positions held with the Company since his joining in 1993 include flash product line director and manager of product engineering. Prior to joining the Company, Voicu was with Cypress Semiconductor, Inc., a semiconductor company, most recently as senior product engineer. Voicu holds an MS degree in Electrical Engineering from the Polytechnical Institute, Bucharest, Romania. About Catalyst Semiconductor Founded in 1985, Catalyst Semiconductor, Inc. is headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. The Company designs and markets a broad range of programmable products including Flash Memories, Serial and Parallel EEPROMs with I2C I2C Inter-Integrated Circuit I2C Intelligent Interface Controller I2C Intelligent Controller , SPI (1) (Stateful Packet Inspection) See stateful inspection. (2) (Service Provider Interface) The programming interface for developing Windows drivers under WOSA. and Microwire interfaces, NVRAM (Non-Volatile RAM) May refer to dynamic RAM (DRAM) and static RAM (SRAM) chips that are backed up by a battery or to non-volatile chips such as flash memory. See non-volatile memory, dynamic RAM, static RAM and solid state disk. , Digitally Programmable Potentiometers, Microcontroller Supervisory circuits and other programmable Mixed Signal products. Catalyst products are used in telecommunications, networking systems, computation, automotive, industrial and consumer markets. Typical applications include optical networks, modems, wireless LANs, network cards, PC BIOS, DIMM (Dual In-Line Memory Module) A printed circuit board that holds memory chips and plugs into a DIMM socket on the motherboard. See memory module. DIMM - Dual In-Line Memory Module modules, cellular telephones, digital satellite box receivers, set-top boxes and Internet routers. Catalyst's Quality Management System is ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9001 certified. For additional information about Catalyst Semiconductor, visit our web site at www.catalyst-semiconductor.com |
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