Cypress plans $10 million campus

BANGALORE: Cypress Semiconductor Corp. today marked its tenth anniversary in India, announcing plans to develop a US$10 million campus locally for strategic product design.

The company expects to triple its India workforce to support this initiative.

"We're looking for a two- to three-acre site to build a Cypress campus," said Paul Keswick, vice president of new product development. "We expect the site will contain multiple buildings of 70,000 square feet each. Our vision is to grow our India staff from more than 200 employees today to 600 or more by the end of 2007, depending on industry growth cycles."

According to Keswick, Cypress's India design centers will continue supporting all of the company's business units, including its most-important and leading edge products. "As we develop new products in such areas as memories and image sensors, these design centers will be a big part of that growth as well," Keswick said.

Cypress opened its first India design center in Bangalore in 1995, specializing on USB chips, SRAMs, framers and clocks. Its contributions have included the design of Cypress's enCoRe low-speed USB microcontrollers; the 3.3V Neuron chips for building automation and industrial control networks; a 2.5-Gbps GFP (Generic Framing Procedure) SONET/SDH framer; the industry's fastest 16-Mbit asynchronous SRAM; the industry's lowest power, high-speed USB controllers; and the industry's first field-programmable spread-spectrum clock generators for electromagnetic interference reduction.

Over the past 10 years, Cypress's India design teams have acquired more than 40 U.S. patents and published multiple technical papers.