Cypress to roll out next gen chips in '06

HYDERABAD: US-based Cypress Semiconductor would roll out its next generation networking chips for easy and faster packet processing over the Internet in the second quarter of the next year. Cypress provides advanced solutions for various requirements of Internet infrastructure.






Design center manager of Cypress's Hyderabad design center Narayana L Pidugu said, "We have chips running on 200 Giga Htz and that can support up to four mega bytes of data. The next generation chips would be much more reliable, support high-performance and speed, besides enhancing many things internally."





He further added that the present chips are pretty powerful networks, that primarily see if they should let the traffic in and once they find that the traffic is genuine the next step is to forward these packets to the right destination. "More and more applications are coming in with speed. Necessary hardware like these chips will enable easier packet processing rather than thousands of lines of software code. We are also planning to start doing various application development, chips for various consumer electronics, etc., from the Indian centers," informed Pidugu.





Cypress has two autonomous development centers in India, one in Bangalore and one in Hyderabad. Explaining about the high-end engineering work being done from the Indian centers, Pidugu said, "Majority of the design work is being done from the centers in India, while the manufacturing work is done from outside India. Even for the next generation networking chips that are to be rolled out sometime next year, I would say so that 90 percent of the product development is done from India, while a small piece of it is being done from the US office."





The company's Bangalore center has 175-employees and specializes in USB chips, SRAMs, framers and clocks. While in Hyderabad Cypress presently has around 25 engineers, the company aims at increasing the headcount to 200 by 2007. The Hyderabad center primarily focuses on next generation Network Search Engines (NSE), 90 nm-scale logic devices and systems engineering capabilities.