Corporate Profile for Oak Technology, dated March 12, 1999.--(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. -0-
Published Date: March 12, 1999
Company Name: Oak Technology
Address: 139 Kifer Court
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
Main Telephone
Number: 408/737-0888
Internet Home
Page Address
(URL): www.oaktech.com
Chief Executive
Officer: Young K. Sohn
Chief Financial
Officer: Robert O. Hersh
Investor Relations
Contact: Robert O. Hersh
Business number: 408/328-6899
Public Relations
Contact: Wendy Blawa
Business number: 617/227-3760
Trading Symbol/
Exchange: OAKT/Nasdaq
Industry: Computer electronics; semiconductors
Market Makers: CANT, GLAS, GRUN, HMQT, HRZG, JBOC, SBSH, SHWD,
TSCO, VOIP, WETH, JEFF, MADF, MASH, MPAC, MSCO,
UAWE, NEED, UFSC, NITE, NSLC, OLDE, PALM, PERT,
PRUS, PWJC
-0- Company description: Founded in 1987, Oak Technology, Inc. (Nasdaq:OAKT) provides high-performance Adj. 1. high-performance - modified to give superior performance; "a high-performance car" superior - of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students" semiconductors to original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) worldwide who serve the optical storage, consumer electronics and digital office equipment markets. The company's products, consisting primarily of integrated circuits Integrated circuits Miniature electronic circuits produced within and upon a single semiconductor crystal, usually silicon. Integrated circuits range in complexity from simple logic circuits and amplifiers, about 1/20 in. (1. and supporting software and firmware A category of memory chips that hold their content without electrical power. Firmware includes flash, ROM, PROM, EPROM and EEPROM technologies. When holding program instructions, firmware can be thought of as "hard software." See flash memory, ROM, PROM, EPROM, EEPROM and FOTA. , enable its OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers to deliver cost-effective cost-effective, n the minimal expenditure of dollars, time, and other elements necessary to achieve the health care result deemed necessary and appropriate. , powerful systems to the end-user for storage, home entertainment and imaging applications. The company's mission is to continue to seek opportunities for value-added silicon in emerging market segments where it can offer powerful, cost-effective and complete solutions to its OEM partners. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, Calif., Oak Technology has subsidiaries in Massachusetts Massachusetts (măsəch  `sĭts), most populous of the New England states of the NE United States. , USA (Pixel pixelin full picture element Smallest resolved unit of a video image that has specific luminescence and colour. Its proportions are determined by the number of lines making up the scanning raster (the pattern of dots that form the image) and the resolution Magic, Inc.); Japan (Oak Technology, K.K.); Taiwan (Oak Technology, Taiwan); U.K. (Oak Technology, Ltd.); and Germany (Oak Technology GmbH). |
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