Cypress to Ring NYSE Opening Bell on May 30 to Celebrate 20 Years As a Publicly Traded Company.SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) will ring The Opening Bell(SM) at 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. on Tuesday, May 30, 2006 at 9:30 a.m. Eastern to celebrate 20 years as a publicly traded company publicly traded company A company whose shares of common stock are held by the public and are available for purchase by investors. The shares of publicly traded firms are bought and sold on the organized exchanges or in the over-the-counter market. . Cypress, a Silicon Valley-based chipmaker chip·mak·er n. A manufacturer of electronic and integrated circuit chips. founded in 1982, made its initial public offering on the Nasdaq in 1986 before making a jump to the "Big Board" in 1988. The company's founder 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 is the longest-standing CEO of a semiconductor company on the NYSE(i). "The semiconductor landscape has changed significantly over the past 20 years, but what has remained constant is innovation," said Rodgers. "Innovation has driven Cypress from $50 million in revenues in 1986 to a $1 billion run rate today; and innovative products like our PSoC(R) mixed-signal array and SunPower solar cells will drive future revenue growth. "We thank all of our stockholders and employees who have made this innovation possible through their investments and involvement in Cypress over the past 20 years," Rodgers said. For more information or a photograph from the opening bell ceremony, please contact Ed Rebello at 408-545-7665, ewr@cypress.com. About Cypress: Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE 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. Visit us at www.cypress.com. (i) Verified by Cypress using data from the NYSE, member websites and media coverage. |
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