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Some its main competitors include Integrated Device Technology , Samsung Electronics , and Xilinx .


STRATEGY

To combat falling commodity chip prices, since 1999 it has been buying smaller, specialized technology companies, including:
  • Timing Technology:

  • --- IC Works

  • --- International Microcircuits Inc.

  • USB Technology:

  • --- Anchor Chips

  • --- In-System Design

  • --- ScanLogic

  • SRAM Technology:

  • --- Galvantech, Inc.

  • --- Cascade Semiconductor Corporation

  • Radio Frequency Technology:

  • --- RadioCom

  • --- Alation

  • Solar Cell Technology

  • --- SunPower

  • --- PowerLight

  • Image Sensor s

  • --- Silicon Light Machines

  • --- FillFactory

  • --- SMaL Camera Technologies(Sold to Sensata Technologies in 2007)

  • Network Technology

  • --- Silicon Packets

  • --- Lara Networks

  • --- HiBand Semiconductors


In addition, Cypress has incorporated some of its technology into subsidiaries, in order to speed up development of such products as the PSoC mixed-signal controller, which is a programmable system-on-chip (SoC) that integrates a microcontroller and the analog and digital components that typically surround it in an embedded system.


PRODUCTS




LOCATION


Cypress has manufacturing plants and design facilities in The United States , The Philippines , Belgium , India , and Ireland .


FOUNDER


Cypress was founded and led by T.J. Rodgers , who received his Bachelor's Degree s from Dartmouth College and his Ph.D. from Stanford University .


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