Cypress Receives ISO 9001:2000 Certification; Certificate Recognizes Cypress's Quality Management System for Delivering World-Class Products and Service to Customers.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)--June 3, 2003 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). Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) today announced that it had received 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. (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. ) 9001:2000 certification, the newest and most demanding of the ISO 9001 standards. The certification covers all Cypress locations and their commitment to provide the highest quality products and services to customers. Cypress has now successfully achieved the new, more rigorous Quality Management System standard for the ISO9001:2000 certification. This certificate underscores Cypress's commitment to sustaining a strict Quality Management System -- a method for continually improving systems that provide consistently high-quality products and services. In addition, this certificate offers customers and business partners the assurance from an independent body that Cypress is committed to -- and has the processes in place for -- managing its quality through the appropriate systems. "Achieving the ISO 9001:2000 certification reinforces Cypress's drive towards achieving total customer satisfaction -- a major corporatewide initiative," said Francis Courreges, VP of Quality for Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "A major portion of this audit involved customer-focused elements, including meeting customer requirements and keeping them informed of quality standards. This involved enhancing our automated workflows in the i2 and Oracle databases; improving tools for document management; and enhancing the company's intranet to provide full traceability on management decisions. The ISO certification provides customers with a higher-level of confidence in our process and systems." Representing an industry-recognized level of quality, an ISO certification reduces a company's need to spend time and money auditing suppliers who are ISO-certified. The demanding requirements for the ISO 9001:2000 certification gives customers added confidence in their decision to partner with Cypress. 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 “NGO” redirects here. For other uses, see NGO (disambiguation). A non-governmental organization (NGO) is a legally constituted organization created by private persons or organizations with no participation or representation of any government. 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. More information regarding ISO is available at www.iso.org. Photo A high-resolution scan of the ISO 9001:2000 certificate can be downloaded from the following link: http://www.cypress.com/support/iso_cert.cfm. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (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 programmable microcontrollers. More information about Cypress is accessible online at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. "Connectivity 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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