Stock Report: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (CY) Report Updated: May 20, 2013 | Print This Page

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets mixed-signal and programmable solutions worldwide. Its Consumer and Computation division offers programmable system-on-chip (PSoC) devices for consumer, industrial, medical, and system management applications; TrueTouch touchscreen controllers; CapSense touch-sensing solutions; universal serial bus (USB) controllers, USB hubs, transceivers, serial interface engines, and embedded-host products; WirelessUSB; programmable clocks for devices requiring multiple frequencies; and RoboClock clock buffers that offer timing solutions. The company’s Data Communications division provides peripheral bridge controllers to enable direct connection between peripherals; dual-port memories that are compelling solutions for interprocessor communication; FIFO Memories that are used as buffer between systems operating at various frequencies; physical layer devices; programmable logic devices; PowerPSoC embedded power controllers; PSoC-based programmable Powerline Communications solutions; and EZ-Color LED lighting solutions. Its Memory Products division offers asynchronous and synchronous static random access memories (SRAMs), and nonvolatile SRAMs to store and retrieve data in networking, wireless infrastructure and handsets, computation, consumer, automotive, industrial, and other electronic systems. The company’s Emerging Technologies and Other division provides wireless pneumatic thermostats, gauge readers, steam trap monitors, and transducer readers; battery-free non-volatile memory solutions; wafer level chip scale packaging solutions; OvationONS laser-based optical navigation sensors; and Trackpad and semiconductor solutions. Cypress Semiconductor Corporation sells its products through distributors, manufacturing representative firms, and its sales force to direct original equipment manufacturers and their manufacturers. The company was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.