Cypress Semiconductor
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Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). Its headquarters are in San Jose, California, and it has divisions in the United States, India and the Philippines. As of 2003, it has over 5,000 employees and sales of 836.8 million US dollars.
Some its main competitors include Integrated Device Technology, Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx.
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[edit] Strategy
To combat falling commodity chip prices, since 1999 it has been buying smaller, specialized technology companies, including:
- IC Works, a maker of timing chips
- Anchor Chips, a maker of USB chips
- Galvantech, Inc., a maker of high-end SRAMs for the data communication industry
- Cascade Semiconductor Corporation, a company specializing in one-transistor Pseudo-SRAM products for wireless applications
- FillFactory, a maker of CMOS image sensors
- SunPower, manufacturer of high-efficiency solar cells
In addition, Cypress has incorporated some of its technology into subsidiaries, in order to speed up development of such products as the PSoC mixed-signal controller, which is a programmable system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates a microcontroller and the analog and digital components that typically surround it in an embedded system.
[edit] Products
- General Purpose Clock generators
- Control Communications
- Image sensors
- Memory
- Optical Sensors
- PSoC Mixed-Signal Controllers
- Physical Layer Devices
- Programmable Logic Devices
- Solar Cells
- Universal Serial Bus
- West Bridge Peripheral Controllers
- Wireless
[edit] Location
Cypress has manufacturing plants and design facilities in the United States, the Philippines, Belgium, India, and Ireland.
[edit] Founder
Cypress was founded and led by T.J. Rodgers, who received his bachelor's degrees from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from Stanford University.
