Cypress to Host High School Students for Groundhog Job Shadow Day; Young Adults to ''Shadow'' Employees On the Job to Explore Opportunities in High-Tech.News Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 30, 2003 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) today announced its participation in the Groundhog Job Shadow Day (GHJSD) program, a national initiative to engage students in the world of work. Groundhog Job Shadow Day is co-sponsored by America's Promise, the National School-to-Work Office, Junior Achievement and the American Society of Association Executives The American Society of Association Executives (ASAE) is a non-profit professional organization for executive directors and executive vice presidents of professional societies both in the United States and abroad. . This event will be held on Friday, January 31, 2003 at 10:00 a.m. in Building 6 on the Cypress campus, 198 Champion Court, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. 95134. For directions to Cypress headquarters, please visit http://www.cypress.com/aboutus/directions.cfm. "These young adults will be the future of silicon valley high-tech companies," said Scott Harmel, corporate marketing VP for Cypress. "Cypress hopes this event will encourage students from local high-schools to consider careers in the mathematics and science fields. This event will benefit both the students and employees." Students from a local high-school will be teamed with Cypress employees to "shadow" them as they go through a normal day on the job. This experience will benefit students and enable them to absorb the personal and professional skills necessary for the technology workplace. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE:CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch, and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including Bluetooth, USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet, and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions, and programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" involving risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Cypress's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks. Note to Editors: Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity from Last Mile to First Mile" and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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