Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) and Spansion, Inc. (NYSE: CODE) have closed the merger of the two companies in an all-stock, tax-free transaction valued at approximately $5 billion. Please follow us on the Cypress Semiconductor page on LinkedIn.
The newly combined company delivers high-performance, high-quality solutions at the heart of today's most advanced embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer and mobile devices. With a broad, differentiated product portfolio that includes NOR flash memories, F-RAM™ and SRAM, Traveo™ microcontrollers, the industry’s only PSoC® programmable system-on-chip solutions, analog and PMIC Power Management ICs, CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing controllers, and Wireless BLE Bluetooth® Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions, Cypress is committed to providing its customers worldwide with consistent innovation, best-in-class support and exceptional system value.
The newly combined company delivers high-performance, high-quality solutions at the heart of today's most advanced embedded systems, from automotive, industrial and networking platforms to highly interactive consumer and mobile devices. With a broad, differentiated product portfolio that includes NOR flash memories, F-RAM™ and SRAM, Traveo™ microcontrollers, the industry’s only PSoC® programmable system-on-chip solutions, analog and PMIC Power Management ICs, CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing controllers, and Wireless BLE Bluetooth® Low-Energy and USB connectivity solutions, Cypress is committed to providing its customers worldwide with consistent innovation, best-in-class support and exceptional system value.
Employees: 5001-10000
Founded date: 2003
Investors 2
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| 16.02.2011 | Spansion aims for a comeback with innovative flash memory | Bankruptcy has a way of making a chief executive focus on what’s important. John Kispert, CEO of the once-bankrupt and now profitable chip maker Spansion, used the legal process to pare back and double down on innovation. Today, the company... |
| 15.11.2010 | Spansion banks its future on memory chips for 3D mobile game devices | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more. Memory chip maker Spansion may not be a sexy company, but the sexy devices that consumers lust after wouldn’t be possible without it. A... |
| 15.11.2010 | Spansion banks its future on memory chips for 3D mobile game devices | Memory chip maker Spansion may not be a sexy company, but the sexy devices that consumers lust after wouldn’t be possible without it. A free fall in prices and high debt drove the company into bankruptcy during the recession, but it reemerg... |
| 20.04.2009 | Spansion sees 50-fold better performance with novel use of memory in servers | Spansion is announcing today that its EcoRAM flash memory can speed up the performance of some server applications by 50 to 100 times compared to traditional memory chips. It will be interesting to see if this innovation can help pull Spans... |
| 07.04.2009 | Spansion Gets $70 Million In Samsung Patent Settlement | Spansion (SPSN) this afternoon announced that it will receive $70 million from Samsung to settle the patent litigation between the two companies. Spansion and Samsung will also cross license their patent portfolios. With Spansion in a Chapt... |
| 17.11.2008 | Spansion suing Samsung over flash memory patents [Update] | Smaller, lesser known (to Joe Blow consumer) tech companies have been known to take on the big guys with lawsuits that may or may not hold up in court, but this one seems to hold a bit of water. At least it appears that way based on the Reu... |
| 29.04.2008 | IBM quietly takes a stake in Spansion's racetrack memory | After quietly taking an equity stake in two-year-old startup flash memory manufacturer Spansion, IBM now plans to augment its own still emerging, futuristic "racetrack" memory with flash memory dubbed MirrorBit. IBM envisions its ... |
| 03.12.2007 | Densbits, another next-gen flash company, funded by Sequoia | Densbits, a small Israeli company, is working on turning flash, the type of memory used in devices like the iPod Nano, into the world’s standard memory type. Flash, which is essentially a semiconductor that can store data, is much faster th... |