Norm Taffe was named vice president of the Consumer and Computation Division (CCD) at Cypress in August 2005. The division designs and develops solutions for many of the world's leading manufacturers of consumer and computation gear including PCs keyboards mice video game systems TVs and DVD recorders mass storage peripherals MP3 players and many other consumer electronics devices. CCD product offerings include the industry's broadest selection of USB controllers; Cypress's WirelessUSB(TM) radio-system-on-a-chip; timing solutions -- including the world's first spread-spectrum crystal oscillator packaged with a high-frequency crystal; and Cypress's flexible PSoC(TM) Programmable System-On-Chip(TM) mixed signal array.
Since joining Cypress in 1989 Taffe has held numerous positions of increasing responsibility including marketing director of the Programmable Logic and Interface Products Divisions managing director of Cypress's M&A and venture fund managing director of the Wireless Business Unit and most recently vice president of the Personal Communications Division. |