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Board of Advisors nominations initiated.","source_type":"press_release","source_accession":null,"source_url":"https://web.archive.org/web/20000816234032/http://www.trustedpc.org/press/pdf/TCPA111999REL.pdf"},{"period":"2000-Q1","event_type":"peak","summary":"Market cap exceeds $1.8 billion. Stock price reaches $44.00 (Mar 3, 2000). 42M+ shares outstanding. Private placement raises $23M. Steven Sprague becomes CEO.","source_type":"sec_filing","source_accession":"0000912057-00-012855","source_url":null},{"period":"2000-Q3","event_type":"partnership","summary":"National Semiconductor announces TCPA co-processor with cryptographic technology licensed from Wave (Aug 22). Compaq and Wave jointly announce Trusted Client solutions (Aug 22). First Wave/AMD TCPA-compliant PC demonstrated (Nov 13).","source_type":"sec_filing","source_accession":"0000912057-01-506188","source_url":null},{"period":"2001-Q1","event_type":"standard","summary":"TCPA v1.0 Specifications released (Jan 30, 2001). IBM ships first TPM-equipped ThinkPad T30.","source_type":"press_release","source_accession":null,"source_url":null},{"period":"2002","event_type":"pivot","summary":"Wave pivots strategy to develop TCPA services for non-EMBASSY TPMs from major semiconductor vendors. TCPA grows to 170+ member companies. R&D: $12M (down from $20.9M in 2000). 126 employees.","source_type":"sec_filing","source_accession":"0001047469-03-011282","source_url":null},{"period":"2003","event_type":"milestone","summary":"TCPA succeeded by Trusted Computing Group (TCG). Wave becomes founding member and board member of TCG. Focus shifts to enterprise TPM management software.","source_type":"sec_filing","source_accession":null,"source_url":null},{"period":"2005-2008","event_type":"growth","summary":"Dell and Acer ship Wave EMBASSY Trust Suite on business PCs. 4-5M software copies per quarter. 50-100M TPMs shipping annually. Strategic partnership with Giesecke & Devrient (Apr 2005). Wave acquires Safend (encryption portfolio).","source_type":"news","source_accession":null,"source_url":null},{"period":"2009-2012","event_type":"scale","summary":"500M+ PCs shipped with TPMs managed by Wave software. Permanent seat on TCG Board of Directors alongside AMD, HP, IBM, Intel, Lenovo, Microsoft, Oracle. Intel selects Wave for SSD security management.","source_type":"news","source_accession":null,"source_url":null},{"period":"2014","event_type":"transition","summary":"Steven Sprague departs after 14 years as CEO. 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