Cypress Semiconductor
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| Public | |
| Traded as |
NASDAQ: CY S&P 400 Component |
| Industry | Semiconductors |
| Founded |
Silicon Valley, California, United States (1982) |
| Headquarters | San Jose, California, United States |
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Number of locations
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14 Design Centers, 40 Sales Offices (2000) |
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Key people
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Hassane El-Khoury (President and CEO) |
| Revenue |
 US$1.627 billion (2015) |
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Number of employees
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6,279 (2015) |
| Divisions | Programmable Systems Division, Memory Product Division, Data Communications Division, Emerging Technologies Division |
| Website | www |
Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It offers NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo microcontrollers, the industry’s only PSoC programmable system-on-chip solutions, analog and PMIC Power Management ICs, CapSense capacitive touch-sensing controllers, Wireless BLE Bluetooth Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions.
Its headquarters are in San Jose, California, and it has operations in the United States, Ireland, India and the Philippines.
Some of its main competitors include Microchip Technology, NXP, Renesas and Micron. In April 2016, Cypress Semiconductors announced the acquisition of Broadcom's Wireless Internet of Things Business.
It was 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 . In October 2009, the company announced it would switch its listing to the NASDAQ on November 12, 2009.
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