Cypress and WIDCOMM Partner to Develop Next-Generation Bluetooth Solutions; Resulting Products to Target Wireless Personal Connectivity.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)--March 5, 2002 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) and WIDCOMM Inc., today announced that they have signed an agreement to jointly develop next-generation Bluetooth solutions. Cypress will license from WIDCOMM a range of Bluetooth software products, including BTE (Bluetooth Embedded Software Instructions that permanently reside in a ROM or flash memory chip. Embedded software may be immediately available to the CPU or, for faster execution, may be transferred to RAM first and then executed. ) and BTE development tools; WIDCOMM engineers will work with Cypress to develop customized Bluetooth solutions for Cypress customers. This cooperative effort will team Cypress's personal communications and manufacturing expertise with WIDCOMM's expertise in short-range wireless connectivity software. "This alliance will further strengthen Cypress's entry into the Bluetooth market," said Geoff Zawolkow, Managing Director for Cypress's Personal Communications Division. "I'm delighted to be working with the industry's premier Bluetooth software developer. As Bluetooth products evolve to products using a variety of short-range wireless technologies, this collaboration becomes a natural synergy," Zawolkow added. "Combining WIDCOMM's software with Cypress's Bluetooth products will enable customers to produce cost-effective solutions," said Andreas Malzach, WIDCOMM's Vice President of Marketing and GM, Europe. "This partnership is beneficial to both companies. The two complement one another in functional expertise." About WIDCOMM WIDCOMM is the leading worldwide provider of software and systems to enable short-range wireless connectivity, including Bluetooth and 802.11. WIDCOMM makes it easy and cost-effective for semiconductor, communications, computing device, and computing peripheral companies to speed interoperable solutions to market. Founded in 1998, WIDCOMM was the first company to bring certified Bluetooth software to the world. Customers include Acer NeWeb Corporation, Compaq Corporation, CSR (1) (Customer Service Representative) A person who handles a customer's request regarding a bill, account changes or service or merchandise ordered. Agents in call centers are known as CSRs. See call center. , OKI, Philips, TDK TDK Türk Dil Kurumu (Turkish Language Council) TDK The Dark Knights (gaming clan) TDK Tokyo Denkikagaku Kogyo KK (TDK Electronics Co. Ltd. , Texas Instruments See TI. (company) Texas Instruments - (TI) A US electronics company. A TI engineer, Jack Kilby invented the integrated circuit in 1958. Three TI employees left the company in 1982 to start Compaq. , Sony, Plantronics, Murata, Infineon Technologies For the raceway, see . Infineon Technologies AG (ISIN: DE0006231004, FWB: IFX, NYSE: IFX) was founded in April 1999 when the semiconductor operations of parent company, Siemens AG, were spun off to form a separate legal entity. , Psion Digital, Zeevo and many more. For more information, please visit www.widcomm.com. About Cypress Cypress Semiconductor is "Driving the Communications Revolution"(TM) with high-performance integrated circuits for network infrastructure and access equipment. Leveraging its process and system-level expertise, the company designs and manufactures solutions targeted across wireless and wireline communications. Cypress supports a wide range of industry standards, such as SONET (OC-48, OC-192 and OC-768), Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP), InfiniBand(TM) and Gigabit Ethernet. The company's communications product lines include programmable high-speed physical layer devices (PHYs), wirespeed network search engines (NSEs) and network coprocessors (NCPs) and datapath switching elements (DSEs). Cypress is also the industry's leader in communications timing solutions, networking-optimized communications memories and personal connectivity solutions, such as 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. and Bluetooth. Cypress is a leader in pure optical and optoelectronic technologies designed to push network transmissions to higher performance levels and to satisfy the increasing demand for network bandwidth. With a focus on emerging communications applications, Cypress aims to become the preferred silicon supplier for network infrastructure solutions and for every network data stream to pass through at least one Cypress IC. Cypress employs 4,000 people worldwide. Its shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) World's largest marketplace for securities. The exchange began as an informal meeting of 24 men in 1792 on what is now Wall Street in New York City. under the symbol CY. More information about Cypress is accessible on the Web http://www.cypress.com/. "Safe Harbor Safe Harbor 1. A legal provision to reduce or eliminate liability as long as good faith is demonstrated. 2. 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Note to Editors: Cypress is a registered trademark and "Driving the Communications Revolution" and cypress.com are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. BLUETOOTH is a trademark owned by Bluetooth SIG, Inc. and licensed to Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. |
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