Cypress Semiconductor

Company

Investment-firm

Last deal

Amount

Venture - Series Unknown

Stage

01.01.1983

Date

1

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About Company
Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor company that delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, and programmable solutions.

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Cypress

founded date

01.01.1982

Number of employees

Company Type

For Profit

Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The company offers a wide range of products including programmable system-on-chip products, capacitive sensing and touchscreen solutions, USB controllers, wireless communication products, and various other semiconductor devices. They serve multiple markets such as consumer, automotive, medical, and industrial, and market their products through direct sales, distributors, and representative firms. Cypress Semiconductor was founded in 1982 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Sub-Organizations
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Cypress Microsystems

Cypress Semiconductor Corporation is a US company that designs and manufactures semiconductors.

Sector

Technology Hardware and Equipment

Subsector

Semiconductors
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M&A Details
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Acquired by

Infineon Technologies

announced date

02.06.2019

price

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Financials

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1
1

Number of Funding Rounds

Their latest funding was raised on 01.01.1983. Their latest investor Mayfield Fund. Their latest round Venture - Series Unknown

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Acquisitions
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Broadcom's Wireless IoT Business acquired by Cypress Semiconductor

Broadcom's Wireless IoT Business acquired by Cypress Semiconductor

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type

Acquisition

price

$550M
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Ramtron International Corporation acquired by Cypress Semiconductor

Ramtron International Corporation acquired by Cypress Semiconductor

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date

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type

Acquisition

price

$109.8M
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1
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People

Founders
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Thurman Rodgers
Thurman Rodgers

Thurman Rodgers

Thurman Rodgers is founder, president, CEO, and a director of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation, and Chairman of the Board at SunPower.In addition to Bloom Energy, he sits on the board of directors of high technology companies including, SolarFlare Communications, Silicon Light Machines, Silicon Magnetic Systems, Infinera, and Cypress MicroSystems. Thurman Rodgers was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth College, where he graduated as Salutatorian with a double major in physics and chemistry. He attended Stanford University on a Hertz fellowship, earning a master's degree and a Ph.D. in electrical engineering.

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Cypress Semiconductor
Cypress Semiconductor

organization founded

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Thurman Rodgers

Employee Profiles
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James Barrett

Section manager wafer fab manufacturing

Sashi Rekha

Senior system engineer

Sameer Ladiwala

Vice president finance, chief accounting officer

Amy Chen

Senior marketing director

Qamrul Hasan

Fellow

Jonathan Wei

Senior director of product engineering, iot business

Ken Robertson

European marketing manager

Christopher Rumpf

Director strategic product development

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