Cypress Semiconductor Corporation Stock Company Profile

Description

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and sells mixed-signal programmable solutions worldwide. The company’s Programmable Solutions division designs and develops programmable solutions, including Traveo automotive microcontrollers; programmable system-on-chip products; ARM Cortex-M4, -M3, and -M0+ microcontrollers; R4 CPUs; analog power management integrated circuits; CapSense capacitive-sensing controllers; TrueTouch touchscreen and fingerprint reader products; and Bluetooth low energy solutions for the Internet of things. Its Memory Products division designs and manufactures NOR and NAND flash memories, static random access memory (SRAM) products, HyperRAm, synchronous and asynchronous SRAMs, nvSRAMs, F-RAM ferroelectric memory devices, dual port memories, first-in first-out memories, RoboClock buffers, and programmable clocks. The company’s Data Communications division provides universal serial bus (USB) controllers; Bluetooth low energy and wirelessUSB solutions; module solutions, such as trackpads and Bluetooth low energy modules; and controllers for the new USB type-C standards. Its Emerging Technology division provides wafer level chip scale packaging solutions and foundry services, as well as other development stage activities. The company serves various markets, including automotive, industrial, communications, consumer, computation, data communications, mobile handsets, and military markets. It sells its semiconductor products through distributors and manufacturing representative firms, as well as through sales force to direct original equipment manufacturers and their suppliers. The company has a strategic foundry partnership with HuaHong Grace Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation and United Microelectronics Corporation. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.