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3 unusual facts about Cypress Semiconductor


Fabless manufacturing

Today most major IDMs including Freescale, Infineon, Texas Instruments and Cypress Semiconductor have adopted the practice of outsourcing chip manufacturing as a significant manufacturing strategy.

SVTC Technologies

SVTC Technologies began operations as a subsidiary of Cypress Semiconductor in 2004.

Touch switch

Cypress Semiconductor CapSense: The CY8C21434 can be configured as an 8-channel capacitance sensor, as used in the Apple iPod


HyperSPARC

The hyperSPARC, code-named "Pinnacle", is a microprocessor that implements the SPARC Version 8 instruction set architecture (ISA) developed by Ross Technology for Cypress Semiconductor.

Larry Sonsini

Sonsini started out counseling semiconductor companies including Cypress Semiconductor, National Semiconductor and LSI Logic.


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Ross Technology

Original board members included Dr. Ross and well-known figures as Dr. T. J. Rodgers of Cypress Semiconductor, John Doerr of Kleiner Perkins Venture Capital, and L. J. Sevin of Sevin Rosen Venture Capital, who also served as Board Chairman.

T. J. Rodgers

While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, Rodgers invented the VMOS process technology, which he later licensed to American Microsystems, Inc. He founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982.