Tensilica Establishes Asia/Pacific Region Presence,
Opens Taipei Office
New Operation headed by Joseph C. Wang
Taipei, Taiwan/Santa Clara,
Calif. – March 7, 2001 ... Tensilica
Inc., the Santa Clara, California (USA) provider
of application-specific processor technology,
today formally announced the creation of a sales,
marketing and support operation to serve the
company’s Asia Pacific markets. The new
outpost is located in Taipei, Taiwan, and is
headed by Joseph C. Wang, director of Asia/Pacific
Sales. In this capacity, Wang reports to Bernie
Rosenthal, vice president, marketing and business
development.
Making the announcement, Rosenthal said, “Through
the opening of the Tensilica A/P office, we have
added an important piece to our worldwide sales
and marketing network. And I’m particularly
delighted to welcome Joseph Wang to the organization.
His track record of prior successes in serving
customers in this critical market augur well for
our aggressive growth objectives.”
Tensilica’s Taipei office address is 2nd
Floor, No. 185, Section 4, Nanking East Road, Taipei,
Taiwan, R.O.C. The telephone and fax numbers are,
respectively, +02-8770-7658 and +02-8770-7659.
About Joseph Wang
Joseph C. Wang is a seasoned sales and marketing
executive with over 18 years of global experience
in high technology. Prior to joining Tensilica
early this year, he spent three plus years as a
senior marketing manager with National Semiconductor’s
Mediamatics Group based in Fremont, California.
In this capacity, he was responsible for developing
and managing the Asia Pacific marketing of Mediamatics’ “Pantera” DVD
System-on-Chip products. Earlier, Wang was senior
marketing manager with National Semiconductor’s
Cyrix & LAN Business Unit based in Taiwan.
Prior affiliations include stints with Houtek Corporation
and Tseng Labs.
Wang holds a BS in Management Information Systems
from California State University (Fresno, California,
1982) and a BS in International Trading awarded
by the Tamsui Oxford College (Taiwan, R.O.C., 1977).
About Tensilica
Tensilica was founded in July 1997 to address
the fast-growing market for configurable processors
and software development tools for high volume,
embedded systems. Using the company's proprietary
Xtensa Processor Generator, system-on-chip (SOC)
designers can develop a processor subsystem hardware
design and a complete software development tool
environment tailored to their specific requirements
in hours.
Tensilica's solutions provide a proven, easy-to-use,
methodology that enables designers to achieve optimum
application performance in minimum design time.
The Company is engaged in research, development,
and customer support from its offices in Santa
Clara, California, Burlington, Massachusetts, Princeton,
NJ, Houston, Texas, Oxford, U.K., Taipei, Taiwan
R.O.C. and Yokohama, Japan.
Tensilica is headquartered in Santa Clara, California
(95054) at 3255-6 Scott Boulevard, and can be reached
at (408) 986-8000 or via www.tensilica.com on the
World Wide Web.
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