Acquisition Strategy
Since its founding, Cypress has acted as an incubator for wholly owned subsidiaries which are given a degree of autonomy and has acquired other small technology companies. Since the mid-2000s these acquisitions have included:
- Timing Technology:
- IC Design
- IC Works
- International Microcircuits Inc.
- USB Technology:
- Anchor Chips
- In-System Design
- ScanLogic
- PSoC Technology:
- PSoC 1
- PSoC 3
- PSoC 5
- SRAM Technology:
- Galvantech, Inc.
- Cascade Semiconductor Corporation
- Simtek
- Radio Frequency Technology:
- Alation
- RadioCom
- Solar Cell Technology (distributed to CY shareholders in 2008 as SPWRB stock)
- SunPower
- PowerLight
- Image Sensors
- Silicon Light Machines
- FillFactory
- SMaL Camera Technologies(Sold to Sensata Technologies in 2007)
- Datacom/Telecom
- Arcus
- 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 Programmable System-on-Chip (SoC) that integrates analog and digital components with a microcontroller on a single chip to form a complete solution for embedded systems. In November 0f 2011, Cypress also backed a packaging firm called Deca Technologies, Inc.
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