REGISTERED STOCKHOLDERS
If your shares are registered in certificate form or book-entry with Cypress Semiconductor’s Transfer Agent, Computershare, you may submit your vote by completing, signing and dating each GOLD proxy card received and returning it in the prepaid envelope. Sign your name exactly as it appears on the GOLD proxy card. Proxy cards submitted by mail must be received no later than June 19, 2017 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time to be voted at the Annual Meeting.
BENEFICIAL STOCKHOLDERS
If you hold your shares through a bank or broker, you should have received the proxy materials and voting instruction form from them. Follow the instructions provided on the GOLD voting instruction form to instruct your bank or broker on how to vote your shares. If you vote by telephone or internet, you do not need to return a proxy card by mail. Internet and telephone voting are available 24 hours a day. Votes submitted by Internet or telephone must be received by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time on June 19, 2017.
ATTENDING THE ANNUAL MEETING
Even if you plan to attend the Annual Meeting in person, we recommend that you submit your GOLD proxy card or voting instructions, or vote by telephone or online by the applicable deadline.
If you wish to vote at the meeting and your shares are held through a bank or broker you must obtain a legal proxy from the bank or broker in advance of the Annual Meeting giving you the right to vote your shares.
WHETHER OR NOT YOU PLAN TO ATTEND THE ANNUAL MEETING, YOUR PROMPT ACTION IS IMPORTANT. YOUR VOTE IS IMPORTANT, NO MATTER HOW MANY SHARES OF COMMON STOCK YOU OWN. Do not return any white proxy card that you may receive from the Company relating to the Annual Meeting, even as a protest vote. If you have already submitted a white proxy card to the Company relating to the Annual Meeting, it is not too late to change your vote. To revoke your prior proxy and change your vote, simply sign, date and return the GOLD proxy card in the postage-paid envelope provided. Only your latest signed and dated proxy will be counted.
For additional information or assistance voting, please contact MacKenzie Partners, Inc., the firm assisting CypressFirst in the solicitation of proxies:
105 Madison Avenue New York, New York 10016 [email protected] Toll-Free (800) 322-2885