Overview
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company headquartered in San Jose, CA and founded in 1982. Today, Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress is a eader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also a leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military (1a).
Global Locations
- Bloomington, MN: manufactures approximately 42% of Cypress Semiconductor’s semiconductor products
- Philippines: accounts for approximately 35% to 45% of the total assembly output and 40% to 50% of the total test output; ten fully automated manufacturing lines enabling complete assembly
- Shanghai, China: 0.35-micron SONOS, 0.13-micron SRAM and LOGIC processes and 0.09-micron SRAM
- Taiwan: United Microelectronics Corporation (“UMC”); 65nm process to produce SRAM products (2).
Suppliers and Buyers
Some of Cypress Semiconductor’s buyers include Arrow Electronics, Avnet Electronics, Digi-Key Corporation, Future Electronics, Newark/element14, Mouser Electronics and Verical (1c).
Products
- Physical layer (PHY) devices – (HOTLink, HOTLink DX, HOTLink II)
- SONET / SDH physical layer (PHY) and framing devices support OC-1 (51.85 Mbps), OC-3 (155.52 Mbps), and OC-48 (2.488 Gbps)
- Application Specific Clocks
- EMI Reduction Clocks
- FleXO™ High Performance Clocks
- Programmable Clocks
- Programmable XOs
- VCXO Clocks
- West Bridge® Controllers
- USB Full-Speed Peripherals
- USB Hi-Speed Hubs
- USB Hi-Speed Peripherals
- USB Hosts
- USB Low-Speed Peripherals
- USB SuperSpeed Peripherals
- USB Transceivers
- EZ Color™ HB LED Controllers
- PowerPSoC® Power Controllers (1b).
For more information, see the Cypress Semiconductor location page.
Sources
- Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (2012). Retrieved on October 16, 2012.
- “About Us” from www.cypress.com/?id=6&source=header
- “Products” from www.cypress.com/?id=2
- “Cypress Global Distribution Partners” from www.cypress.com/?app=distiInventory&source=header
- “Cypress 2011 Annual Report and 10K Report.” (2012). Retrieved October 16, 2012 from http://files.shareholder.com/downloads/ABEA-37EQD4/2124459547x0x555367/D44F0563-EAAB-44F0-A440-16368D23ACA0/Cypress-2011_Annual_Report.pdf