Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
| Cypress Semiconductor Corporation
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| legal form | subsidiary |
| founding | 1982 |
| Seat |
San Jose , United States
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| management | Reinhard Ploss, CEO Infineon Technologies AG |
| Number of employees | 6546 |
| sales | $ 1.92 billion (2016) |
| Branch | Computer chip |
| Website | www.cypress.com |
| As of July 3, 2017 | |
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation was a US semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in San Jose , California until it was acquired by the German Infineon Technologies AG in 2020 .
history
Cypress Semiconductor was founded in 1982 by TJ Rodgers with Fritz Beyerlein, Fred Jenne, Steven H. Kaplan, R. Michael Starnes, and Lowell Turriff. TJ Rodgers is the founder and was General Manager of the company until April 28, 2016. He was followed by the current General Director Hassane El-Khoury. The company had around 7,000 employees in 2016. Her income in 2016 was $ 2 billion. Over the years Cypress Semiconductor has regularly acquired or merged with other companies. These include Ramtron , the wireless IoT division of Broadcom (2016) and the merger with Spansion (2015). In June 2019 it was announced that the German Infineon is aiming to take over Cypress Semiconductor for around 9 billion euros. Infineon completed the acquisition in April 2020, making it one of the ten largest semiconductor manufacturers worldwide.
Products
Cypress Semiconductor is best known as a manufacturer of static RAMs . Through the SPANSION merger, Cypress is also an important supplier for FLASH products. Other product lines include 8-bit / 16-bit and 32-bit microcontrollers as well as PSoC (Programmable System on Chip), touch controllers, clock buffers, PMIC (Power Management IC), wireless and USB chips and various modules.
The main product offerings
- static RAM, non-volatile RAM
- serial / parallel FLASH
- USB microcontroller
- PSoC Programmable System on Chip
- CapSense capacitive touch sensing
- Cypress Truetouch multi-touch sensing systems
- General Purpose Programmable Clock Generators
- Control Communications
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Cypress Annual Report 2016 , accessed June 3, 2017
- ^ Company Backgrounder by Dataquest: Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. October 1991, accessed June 6, 2020 .
- ^ EE Times, Cypress to Pay $ 550 Million for Broadcom's IoT Business
- ↑ Cypress Press Release, Cypress and Spansion Complete $ 5 Billion All-stock Merger.
- ↑ Frank Riemenschneider: Comment: Cypress and Spansion complete merger - the future remains uncertain. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
- ↑ boerse.ARD.de: Infineon makes the biggest purchase in the company's history | Stock news. Retrieved June 3, 2019 .
- ↑ golem.de: Infineon is allowed to buy US chip manufacturers. Retrieved March 10, 2020 .
- ^ Infineon Technologies AG completes acquisition of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. Retrieved May 15, 2020 .
- ↑ Rapid development of prototypes of capacitive touch sensors for any surface