Cypress's CEO, T.J. Rodgers, to be a Keynote Speaker at BITSAA Silicon Valley Chapter Annual Event.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Rodgers' Presentation to the Birla Institute of Technology and Science Birla Institute of Technology & Science, Pilani, Rajasthan, India (popularly known as 'BITS Pilani') is one of the oldest leading technology schools of India. In addition to Pilani, BITS has campuses in Dubai, United Arab Emirates and Goa, India, an extension center in Bangalore, Alumni Association, an Educator of Many Cypress Employees in India and Abroad, Will Address the Challenges of Global Expansion Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) announced today that its 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. , T.J. Rodgers, will address the BITS Alumni Association (BITSAA) Silicon Valley Chapter's (SVC (1) (Switched Virtual Circuit) A network connection that is established at the time the transmission is required and disconnected when the session is completed. ) annual event, to be hosted at the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Milpitas on Saturday, April 9, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. Pacific Standard Time (PST PST Paroxysmal supraventricular tachycardia, see there ). Rodgers will touch upon Cypress's ties with the Birla Institute of Technology and Science (BITS) Pilani and its strategy for India, vis-a-vis increased globalization globalization Process by which the experience of everyday life, marked by the diffusion of commodities and ideas, is becoming standardized around the world. Factors that have contributed to globalization include increasingly sophisticated communications and transportation of the semiconductor industry and the shortage of engineering talent. "We are happy to have T.J. Rodgers participate in this annual event and to further strengthen our ties with one of the leading engineering colleges in India," said Ralph Schmitt, executive vice president of sales and marketing at Cypress. "Cypress employs several BITS Pilani alumni, and we see this as an important step in formalizing our relationship with the college and its global alumni as we look to expand our design centers in India and elsewhere." "We are honored to have T.J. Rodgers as the keynote speaker this year," said Jayan Ramankutty, President BITSAA SVC. "Last year BITSAA and BITS Pilani launched OLAB -- The Oysters Lab at BITS -- a distributed VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. center based in Bangalore, India, that would fuel the semiconductor research and chip development revolution in India through the participation and collaboration of semiconductor companies such as Cypress." For more information about this event, please visit: www.bitsaa.org. About BITSAA International BITS Alumni Association (BITSAA) consists of 30,000 alums of BITS Pilani and operates through 40 chapters located in North America, Europe, Asia and Australia. BITSAA International Inc. is the official tax-exempt, not-for-profit organization for BITS alums living in the United States, and represents over 5,000 BITS alumni living there. BITSAA International provides a platform for communication and a gateway to the global alumni body through the www.bitsaa.org website. It also provides a number of alumni services including the alumni directory, access to databases, publications, news, and facilitates communications between the chapters, alumni and the Institute. For more information, visit: www.bitsaa.org. About Cypress Cypress solutions are at the heart of any system that is built to perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Leveraging a strong commitment to customer service and performance-based process and manufacturing expertise, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, network search engines, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions, and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors CY. More information about the company is available online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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