Cypress Semiconductor
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Cypress Semiconductor has been a public high tech company since 1988 (NYSE:CY). Its headquarters are in San Jose, California. As of 2003, it has 4,000 employees and sales of 836.8 million US dollars.
Some its main competitors include Integrated Device Technology, Samsung Electronics, and Xilinx.
To combat falling commodity chip prices, since 1999 it has been buying smaller, specialized technology companies in recent years, including IC Works, a maker of timing chips, Anchor Chips, a maker of USB chips, Galvantech, Inc., and Cascade Semiconductor Corporation, a company specializing in one-transistor Pseudo-SRAM products for wireless applications.
It was founded and led by T.J. Rodgers, an alumnus of Dartmouth College.
External link
Cypress home page (http://www.cypress.com/)Template:Corp-stub