Norm Taffe

Who is Norm Taffe?

Norm Taffe was named vVce 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 MA and venture fund, managing director of the

Wireless Business Unit and most recently, vice president of the

Personal Communications Division.