Cypress Achieves Corporatewide ISO 14001 Certification; Certification Marks a Major Environmental Milestone in ``Green'' Initiative.Business Editors/High-Tech Writers SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 19, 2004 Cypress Semiconductor Cypress Semiconductor is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company. It began operations in 1982 and listed publicly in 1986. Two years later, the company shifted over to the New York Stock Exchange under the symbol, (NYSE: CY). Corp. (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) today announced that it has achieved ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 14001 certification for all its wafer manufacturing sites -- located in California, Minnesota and Texas -- after an extensive audit by SGS SGS Société Générale de Surveillance SGS Symantec Gateway Security (appliance) SGS School of Graduate Studies SGS Subgrid Scale SGS Singapore Government Securities SGS Shell Global Solutions Systems and Services Certification, a qualified third party auditor employed by Cypress. This certification confirms Cypress's commitment to combine excellent business practices with environmentally sound processes and products. Cypress's Philippines test and assembly facility has been ISO 14001 certified since May 2001. ISO 14001 is a standard published by the International Organization for Standardization International Organization for Standardization (ISO) Organization for determining standards in most technical and nontechnical fields. Founded in Geneva in 1947, its membership includes more than 100 countries. in 1996 that establishes a coordinated framework of controls to manage environmental protection in an organization. The standard specifies the actual requirements for an environmental management system (EMS). Cypress's EMS encourages corporate practices that minimize the environmental impact of all aspects of manufacturing including the elimination of cadmium from its process. Cypress also offers lead-free packaging for many of its products. "ISO certification provides customers with verification that Cypress's processes and systems are fully compliant with the ISO environmental standards, enabling our customers to meet their end-market demands," said Francis Courreges, Cypress's vice president for quality. "In addition, the conservation and recycling programs help increase shareholder value in the company." "Cypress has continued to improve the way it manages environmental issues through systematic and sustainable methods," said Marty O'Connell, certification manager and ISO 14001 product manager for SGS. "Cypress has implemented a number of programs to encourage 'green' behavior including water reduction; recycling; use of public transportation; and installing a 335 kW DC solar rooftop array on two of its San Jose buildings -- the largest solar array in Silicon Valley." About the International Organization for Standardization The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) is a worldwide federation of national standards bodies Following are some of the standards bodies defined in this database. For Windows users of CDE, look up Lessons/Review/Associations. For Web users of CDE's online HTML version, review the Lessons list at the bottom of the definition. Organization Covers ANSI U.S. representing 140 countries. ISO is a non-governmental organization established in 1947. The mission of ISO is to promote the development of standardization and related activities in the world with a view to facilitating the international exchange of goods and services In economics, economic output is divided into physical goods and intangible services. Consumption of goods and services is assumed to produce utility (unless the "good" is a "bad"). It is often used when referring to a Goods and Services Tax. and to developing co-operation in the spheres of intellectual, scientific, technological and economic activity. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE:CY) is Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile(TM) with high-performance solutions for personal, network access, enterprise, metro switch and core communications-system applications. Cypress Connects(TM) using wireless, wireline, digital, and optical transmission standards, including USB USB in full Universal Serial Bus Type of serial bus that allows peripheral devices (disks, modems, printers, digitizers, data gloves, etc.) to be easily connected to a computer. , Fibre Channel, SONET/SDH, Gigabit Ethernet and DWDM (Dense WDM) The term given to wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) when significantly more channels were being added. Since WDM is increasingly more "dense" all the time, both terms are used synonymously. See WDM. DWDM - wavelength division multiplexing . Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, Cypress makes industry-leading physical layer devices, framers, and network search engines, along with a broad portfolio of high-bandwidth memories, timing technology solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connecting from Last Mile to First Mile," and "Cypress Connects" are trademarks of Cypress. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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