11 Facts About Cypress Semiconductor

Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor design and manufacturing company.

Cypress Semiconductor initially focused on the design and development of high speed CMOS SRAMs, EEPROMs, PAL devices, and TTL devices.

In November 2011, Cypress Semiconductor backed a packaging firm called Deca Technologies, Inc.

Cypress Semiconductor is a component of the Ocean Tomo 300 Patent Index.

Cypress Semiconductor attempted to acquire Integrated Silicon Solution Inc in 2015 but was thwarted by a competing bid by Chinese buyer consortium Uphill Investment Co.

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Also in 2015, Cypress tried to acquire Atmel, but was outbid by Dialog Semiconductor .

Under the terms of the deal, Cypress Semiconductor will acquire Broadcom's Wi-Fi, Bluetooth and Zigbee IoT product lines and intellectual property, along with its WICED brand and developer ecosystem.

Cypress Semiconductor was headquartered in San Jose, CA and had manufacturing plants in Austin, TX and Bloomington, MN, assembly and test operations in the Philippines and Bangkok, Thailand.

Cypress Semiconductor had design facilities in the United States, Japan, Germany, India, China, Ukraine, Ireland, Malaysia and other locations.

Cypress Semiconductor had previously divested a large portion of its San Jose campus to SVTC, SunPower and Second Harvest of Silicon Valley.

Since its founding, Cypress Semiconductor has acted as an incubator for wholly owned subsidiaries which are given a degree of autonomy and has acquired other small technology companies.