Cypress Rockets Past Half a Billion USB Controllers Shipped; USB Market Leader Delivers a Record 130 Million Units in 2005 to Eclipse 500 Million Mark; Already Approaching 600 Million.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. -- 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), the market leader in 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. , today announced that it has shipped over 500 million USB controllers. The controllers, which began shipping in 1997, are used in a wide array of USB host and peripheral consumer devices. Cypress offers the industry's most complete portfolio of USB devices, including low-, full-, and high-speed controllers, hosts, hubs, bridges and wireless solutions. Fueled by growing consumer demand in USB-enabled applications such as mice, keyboards, hubs, media and video players, mobile phones, mass storage (external hard disk drives & enclosures), set top boxes, photo printers and video capture peripherals, Cypress shipped over 130 million USB controllers in 2005, the most in its history, and is already approaching 600 million units shipped. "Cypress has earned its market leadership position in USB by offering an ever-expanding portfolio of controllers and working with customers to help adapt the products to new, innovative applications," said Steven Larky lark·y adj. lark·i·er, lark·i·est 1. High-spirited; zestful: "It's a very larky Nureyev whom we see  a buoyant imp who . . . , managing director for Cypress Semiconductor's USB product line. "In the past six months alone we have introduced the first MoBL-USB(TM) product for mobile phones, an automotive infotainment controller, and a device optimized for industrial applications, a clear demonstration of the universal reach of USB." Cypress recently announced that it has shipped over twenty million units of its new EZ-USB(TM) LP family of low-cost, high-speed USB controllers. The new controllers, introduced in April of 2005, take advantage of Cypress's 0.13-micron C8(TM) process technology to reduce dynamic and standby power Standby power, also called Vampire power, refers to the electric power consumed by electronic appliances in a standby mode. A very common "electricity vampire" is a power adaptor built on a plug with no power switch. consumption by nearly 50 percent versus leading competitors. EZ-USB LP controllers have been rapidly accepted by applications such as mass storage, docking stations, video capture, mobile phones, media and video players, PC-TV (enabling Digital Video Broadcast TV on PCs) cards and USB "thumb drives." About Cypress Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications data communications, application of telecommunications technology to the problem of transmitting data, especially to, from, or between computers. In popular usage, it is said that data communications make it possible for one computer to "talk" with another. , automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol Ticker Symbol An arrangement of characters (usually letters) representing a particular security listed on an exchange or otherwise traded publicly. When a company issues securities to the public marketplace, it selects an available ticker symbol for its securities which investors CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com. Cypress and the Cypress logo are registered trademarks and EZ-USB, MoBL-USB and C8 are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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