Cypress To Improve Manufacturing Yield Using WaferYield Technology; Expanded Use of WAMA Technology Expected to Improve Yield, Throughput, and Profitability of Wafer Fab Operations.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)--Aug. 20, 2002 Cypress Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE NYSE See: New York Stock Exchange :CY) and WaferYield, Inc. today announced that Cypress has expanded its non-exclusive commercial license agreement to use WaferYield's WAMA WAMA Washington Area Music Association WAMA Washington Association of Military Attachés (Washington, DC) (TM) technology. WAMA technology is expected to improve the yield, throughput, and profitability of Cypress's wafer fabrication operations, which support its manufacture of integrated circuits. "In this challenging economic climate, all capital expenditures are highly scrutinized and need to be strongly justified," said Christopher Seams, Cypress EVP EVP Executive Vice President EVP EGR (Exhaust Gas Recirculation) Valve Position Sensor EVP Electronic Voice Phenomenon EVP Europäische Volkspartei (Germany) EVP Employee Value Proposition of technology and worldwide manufacturing. "It makes much better sense to find ways to improve the yield of existing equipment. By expanding the use of WAMA technology and implementing it in all of our fabs, we look forward to seeing greater manufacturing efficiencies." WAMA tools are based on WaferYield's patented, proprietary wafer-mapping WAMA technology. Each module targets a different aspect of the wafer fabrication process. WAMA modules are designed to increase gross dice, maximize good dice, maximize fab throughput, and maximize return on investment. "We view Cypress's multiyear corporate license agreement as a vote of confidence for WAMA technology," said Eitan Cadouri, WaferYield CTO (Chief Technical Officer) The executive responsible for the technical direction of an organization. See CIO and salary survey. . "We're looking forward to exhibiting how WAMA tools deliver their benefits without requiring Cypress to change its processes or redesign its products." About WaferYield WaferYield is a semiconductor industry company that aims to maximize fab productivity, yield, and profitability without changing the customer's processes or masks, or increasing manufacturing costs. Using its patented WAMA(TM) technology, WaferYield offers products that individually aim to improve different aspects of the wafer fabrication process. WAMA benefits are immediate, providing significant returns. WaferYield is a privately held company privately held company A firm whose shares are held within a relatively small circle of owners and are not traded publicly. based in Santa Clara, Calif. More information is available at http://www.waferyield.com. 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 Bluetooth, 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. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. A form of shark repellent implemented by a target company acquiring a business that is so poorly regulated that the target itself is less attractive. " Statement under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act The Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 (PSLRA) implemented several significant substantive changes affecting certain cases brought under the federal securities laws, including changes related to pleading, discovery, liability, class representation and awards fees and of 1995: Statements herein that are not historical facts are "forward-looking statements" involving risks and uncertainties, including but not limited to: the effect of global economic conditions, shifts in supply and demand, market acceptance, the impact of competitive products and pricing, product development, commercialization and technological difficulties, and capacity and supply constraints. Please refer to Cypress's Securities and Exchange Commission filings for a discussion of such risks. Note to Editors: 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. WAMA is a trademark of WaferYield, Inc. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. |
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