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Cypress Semiconductor Corp
Type Public (NASDAQ: CY
(http://www.nasdaq.com/symbol/cy))
Industry Semiconductors
Founded California, U.S. (1982)
Founder(s) T. J. Rodgers
Headquarters San Jose, California, U.S.
Number of
locations
14 Design Centers, 40 Sales Offices
(2000)
Revenue US$973 million (2011)
Employees 3,600 (2012) [1]
Divisions Memory Product Division, Data
Communications Division, Consumer
and Computations Division
Website Cypress.com
(http://www.cypress.com/)
Cypress Semiconductor
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a Silicon
Valley-based semiconductor design and manufacturing
company founded by T. J. Rodgers and others from
Advanced Micro Devices. It was formed in 1982 with
backing by Sevin Rosen and went public in 1986. The
company initially focused on the design and development
of high speed CMOS SRAMs, EEPROMs, PAL
devices, and TTL logic devices. Two years after going
public the company switched from the NASDAQ to the
New York Stock Exchange. In October 2009, the
company announced it would switch its listing to the
NASDAQ on November 12, 2009.
[2]
Its headquarters
are in San Jose, California, and it has divisions in the
United States, Ireland, India and the Philippines as well
as a fabrication plant in Minnesota.
Some of its main competitors include Microchip
Technology, Integrated Device Technology, Samsung
Electronics, and Xilinx.
Contents
1 Acquisition strategy
2 Major product offerings
2.1 Patents
3 Locations
4 Subsidiaries
5 Restatement
6 See also
7 References
8 External links
Acquisition strategy
Since its founding, Cypress has acted as an incubator for wholly owned subsidiaries which are given a degree of
autonomy and has acquired other small technology companies. In addition, Cypress has been an active acquirer
of smaller technology companies; since the early-1990s these acquisitions have included:
Timing Technology:
IC Design
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IC Works
International Microcircuits Inc.
USB Technology:
Anchor Chips
In-System Design
ScanLogic
PSoC Technology:
Cypress Microsystems
RAM Technology:
Galvantech, Inc.
Cascade Semiconductor Corporation
Simtek
Ramtron
Radio Frequency Technology:
Alation
RadioCom
Solar cell technology
SunPower (distributed to CY shareholders in 2008 as SPWRB stock)
PowerLight
Image Sensors
Silicon Light Machines
FillFactory (sold to ON Semiconductor)
SMaL Camera Technologies(Sold to Sensata Technologies in 2007)
Datacom/Telecom
Arcus
Silicon Packets
Lara Networks
HiBand Semiconductors
In addition, Cypress has incorporated some of its technology into subsidiaries, in order to speed up
development of such products as the PSoC Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) that integrates analog and
digital components with a microcontroller on a single chip to form a complete solution for embedded systems. In
November 0f 2011, Cypress also backed a packaging firm called Deca Technologies, Inc.
[3]
Major product offerings
Cypress TrueTouch Multi-touch Capacitative Sensing Systems
PSoC a software configured, mixed-signal array with a built-in MCU core
General Purpose Programmable Clock generators
Memory
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Optical Sensors
Physical Layer Devices
Universal Serial Bus Low Speed, Full Speed, High Speed and Super Speed controllers.
West Bridge ultra high-speed peripheral controllers
Wireless
CyFi 2.4 GHz RF Solution
Patents
As of early 2013, Cypress Semiconductors has over 1900 US and foreign patents, with over 1000 more US,
international and foreign applications pending
[4]
Cypress Semiconductor is a component of the Ocean Tomo
300 Patent Index
[5]
Locations
Cypress is headquartered in San Jose, CA and has manufacturing plants and design facilities in the United States
(including San Jose CA, Lynnwood WA, Colorado Springs CO, Bloomington MN, Lexington KY, San Diego
CA, Beaverton OR), the Philippines (Manila), India (Bangalore, Chennai), China (Shanghai), and Ireland
(Cork). Former sites which have been closed down include Hyderabad (India), UK (London), as well as
several in the United States (Austin TX, Round Rock TX, Nashua NH, Starkville MS, Boise ID, Boston MA,
and Moscow ID). Cypress has divested a large portion of its San Jose campus to SVTC, SunPower, and
Second Harvest Food Bank.
Subsidiaries
AgigaTech, Inc. sells non-volatile random-access memory (RAM) and is based in San Diego, California. It was
acquired during the Simtek purchase in August 2008, and marks the second time that Cypress acquired a start-
up venture from founder, Ron Sartore (http://people.forbes.com/profile/ronald-sartore/72121) (who co-founded
Anchor Chips as well.)
Restatement
On June 19, 2003, the company restated the prior year market segment data to conform with the situation that
Silicon Light Machines, Silicon Magnetic Systems, Cypress Microsystems, and SunPower Corporation were
disclosed as a separate segment called Cypress Subsidiaries.
[6]
See also
SunPower
List of semiconductor fabrication plants
References
1. ^ "2012 Cypress Semiconductor Annual Report" (http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-
37EQD4/2447922577x0x649891/774E4084-CBBF-45B2-82EF-699D5B09E768/Cypress_2012_Annual_Report-
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Final.pdf). 2012-12-31. Retrieved 2012-12-31.
2. ^ "Cypress Semiconductor Corp. to Switch Stock Exchange Listing to NASDAQ on November 12"
(http://www.cypress.com/?rID=39233). 2009-10-30. Retrieved 2009-10-30.
3. ^ Dylan McGrath, EE Times. "Cypress-backed packaging firm launches (http://eetimes.com/electronics-
news/4230448/Cypress-backed-packaging-firm-launches)." November 9, 2011. Retrieved November 9, 2011.
4. ^ USPTO Assignments on the Web (http://assignments.uspto.gov/assignments/q?
db=pat&qt=asne&reel=&frame=&pat=&pub=&asnr=&asnri=&asne=cypress+semiconductor&asnei=&asns=).
Assignments.uspto.gov (2013-07-08). Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
5. ^ 300 Patent Index (http://www.oceantomo.com/productsandservices/investments/indexes/ot300). Ocean
Tomo. Retrieved on 2013-11-20.
6. ^ "Cypress semiconductor corp de" (http://www.sec.gov/cgi-bin/browse-edgar?
action=getcompany&CIK=0000791915&owner=exclude&count=40&hidefilings=0).
External links
Official Cypress Website (http://www.cypress.com/)
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