Technology >> CEO Interviews >> September 15, 1997
CYRUS TSUI is currently President, Chief Executive Officer and Chairman
of Lattice Semiconductor Corporation, a leading manufacturer of
programmable logic devices based in Hillsboro, Oregon. Mr. Tsui joined
Lattic Semiconductor in September 1988. He has been instrumental in
directing the Company's rapid and continuous growth. During Mr. Tsui's
tenure annual revenue has increased ten-fold to over $200 million.
Annual net income has grown twenty five times to $45 million and total
employment has increased five-fold to its current level of nearly 600.
Mr. Tsui also executed the Company's initial public stock offering in
1989. Since that time total equity market capitalization has grown from
$30 million to the current level of over one billion dollars. Mr. Tsui
was born in Shanghai, China in 1945. He immigrated to the United States
in 1964 and subsequently established citizenship. He holds a Bachelor of
Science degree in Electrical Engineering from the University of Southern
California and a Master of Science degree in Electrical Engineering and
Business Administration from Stanford University. Mr. Tsui has spent has
entire professional career in the semiconductor industry, focusing
primarily on field programmable technologies and products. He was a
leading force behind the development and commercialization of the
programmable logic device, now a two billion dollar market. He
previously served in a variety of management and technical positions at
Advanced Micro Devices and Fairchild Semiconductor. Profile
Mr. Tsui: Well it's a company based in Hillsboro, Oregon, close to
Portland. We are an established company concentrating
