Corporate Profile for Cicada Semiconductor Corp., dated March 7, 2003.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers --(BUSINESS WIRE) The following Corporate Profile is available for inclusion in your files. News releases for this client are distributed by Business Wire and also become part of the leading databases and online services, including all of the leading Internet-based services.
Published Date: March 7, 2003
Company Name: Cicada Semiconductor Corp.
Address: 811 Barton Springs Road, Suite 550
Austin, Texas 78704
Main Telephone
Number: 512/327-3500
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): www.cicada-semi.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Nick Van Bavel (the President is Dave McLean)
Chief Financial
Officer: John Hollister
Investor Relations
Contact: John Hollister
Business number: 512/327-3500, ext. 145
E-mail address: jch@cicada-semi.com
Public Relations
Contact: Stephanie Esnault
Business number: 512/327-3500, ext. 124
E-mail address: sesnault@cicada-semi.com
Industry: communications components
Company description: Cicada cicada (sĭkā`də), large, noise-producing insect of the order Homoptera, with a stout body, a wide, blunt head, protruding eyes, and two pairs of membranous wings. Semiconductor's mission is to become the worldwide leader in high-speed high-speed adj. 1. Operated or designed for operation at high speed: a high-speed food processor. 2. Taking place at high speed: a high-speed chase. 3. DSP-based, wireline communications components. Located in Austin Austin. 1 City (1990 pop. 21,907), seat of Mower co., SE Minn., on the Cedar River, near the Iowa line; inc. 1868. The commercial and industrial center of a rich farm region, it is noted as home to the Hormel meatpacking company, whose Spam Town museum , Texas, Cicada was founded in 1996 as an IC design and intellectual property developer. The company has since made the transition to a fabless semiconductor company A fabless semiconductor company specializes in the design and sale of hardware devices implemented on semiconductor chips. It achieves an advantage by outsourcing the fabrication of the devices to a specialized semiconductor manufacturer called a semiconductor foundry or "fab. and is now one of the leading suppliers of Gigabit Ethernet An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. physical layer (PHY See physical layer and physical. ) transceivers. "The company's Gigabit Ethernet PHYs are the industry's lowest power, highest performance products shipping today, enabling widespread deployment of high-density gigabit switches with the lowest component and support costs." |
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