ATMI's Emosyn Unit Expands Into Asia
DANBURY, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 25, 2001--
Local Smart Card Sales & Support
ATMI, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATMI) today announced that its Emosyn fabless smart card venture is expanding its marketing and sales efforts beyond Europe into Asia, by establishing a Singapore office. Pang Sze Yong is joining Emosyn as Business Development Manager for Asia.
Grahame Lucas, Emosyn's Director of Sales, said, "Growing customer demand throughout Asia for Emosyn's products helped us decide to expand with our new Singapore customer support center. The superior designs of Emosyn's Theseus(R) microprocessor-based smart card integrated circuit and Rania(R) software development tools will help us to penetrate further into all the key high growth smart card markets. With offices in Europe, North America, and Asia, Emosyn is now prepared to offer new generations of smart card microprocessors aimed at the high growth areas in the market."
Pang Sze Yong, Asia Business Development Manager for Emosyn, said, "Emosyn's smart card microprocessor architecture and development toolkit allow our customers to get new applications and products to market faster, at lower cost." Before joining Emosyn, Sze Yong has previously worked for German smart card manufacturer Giesecke & Devrient Asia Pte Ltd. and more recently with Swedish Mobile Internet Consultancy AU System in Singapore.
Emosyn's Rania(R) development tools enable software and hardware developers to write and port applications onto the Theseus family of flash-based integrated circuits. After achieving an extensive security qualification, the Theseus Gold 48 and Theseus Gold 96 microprocessors are being used in GSM applications worldwide.
Emosyn, a fabless semiconductor company, is a division of ATMI, Inc. Emosyn has a design center in San Jose, California; corporate headquarters in Danbury, Connecticut; and sales and marketing headquarters in Europe.
ATMI provides specialty materials and services to the worldwide semiconductor industry. |
