Cypress To Offer 100 Percent Lead-Free Products; Two-Million Lead-Free Packages Shipped First Quarter 2004 In Nickel-Palladium-Gold Frame Technology.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 8, 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 will offer lead-free packages for all new integrated circuit integrated circuit (IC), electronic circuit built on a semiconductor substrate, usually one of single-crystal silicon. The circuit, often called a chip, is packaged in a hermetically sealed case or a nonhermetic plastic capsule, with leads extending from it for (IC) products by the end of the third quarter 2004. This initiative will be a major milestone in the company's efforts to make its product packaging more environmentally friendly Environmentally friendly, also referred to as nature friendly, is a term used to refer to goods and services considered to inflict minimal harm on the environment.[1] by using nickel-palladium-gold frame technology -- an innovative technology that has been accepted by the market -- to shift lead-based products to lead-free. Shipping lead-free semiconductor products has been an industry initiative -- driven by Europe and Japan -- for many years. Since 2001, Cypress has been working with customers and the European Union's Restriction of Hazardous Substances (RoHS) legislation on a multi-step, banned substance banned substance n (SPORT) → sustancia prohibida banned substance n → sostanza al bando (nello sport) elimination program. In addition to eliminating lead, Cypress plans to meet the RoHS legislation requiring the elimination of many hazardous substances from its packaging in 2005. Cadmium cadmium (kăd`mēəm) [from cadmia, Lat. for calamine, with which cadmium is found associated], metallic chemical element; symbol Cd; at. no. 48; at. wt. 112.41; m.p. 321°C;; b.p. 765°C;; sp. gr. 8. , mercury and chromium are samples of banned substances on the RoHS produced list. After removing all of the RoHS banned substances, Cypress products will meet the RoHS definition of "Green." Cypress also received a "Green Partner" award from Sony in 2003, a program recognizing suppliers that have successfully implemented systems to reduce or eliminate harmful substances in its processes and products. "Cypress shipped two-million lead-free products in the first quarter of 2004," said Bob Blazer, vice president of assembly and test operations. "We strive to be one of the first companies in the semiconductor industry to offer 100 percent lead-free products. Also, in order to prevent the continued use of lead in the frame material, all new products in development are required to have lead-free availability." Blazer added, "Our goal is threefold: to create a solution that is environmentally friendly; fulfill our end-customer demands; and to create lead-free products that can be transitioned into our customer systems, easily. Our nickel-palladium-gold technology does all three." In order to help customers switch to lead-free devices, Cypress offers backwards-compatible packages that enable customers to make a simple transition from a lead-based to a lead-free product. Cypress is changing its internal process and materials from lead-based to nickel-palladium-gold based frames. Customers -- whose future end-products must also be lead-free -- have been qualifying Cypress products. For more information on Cypress's lead-free initiative, please visit the Cypress website at www.cypress.com/support/package/pbfree.cfm. 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 An Ethernet standard that transmits at 1 Gbps. Used mostly to connect high-end workstations and servers as well as for network backbones, Gigabit Ethernet transmits full duplex from point to point using switches and half duplex in a shared environment (CSMA/CD) using a hub. 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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