SAN JOSE, Calif., April 18, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its TrueTouch® Gen4 controllers enable the “Magic Touch” feature in the new Ascend Mate smartphone from HUAWEI, which boasts one of the world’s largest smartphone touchscreens at 6.1 inches. Magic Touch lets users accurately navigate the touchscreen even with thick gloves on, solving a persistent problem for customers in cold-weather climates. The Gen4 TrueTouch controller also enables the Ascend Mate to offer outstanding water rejection and unmatched touchscreen performance in the presence of electronic noise sources.

The Magic Touch feature is enabled with patent-pending technology from Cypress available on Gen4 that is unavailable from other suppliers. The Gen4 family delivers an array of technologies the competition cannot match. It is the world’s only controller family with built-in 10V Tx to drive the touch panel at 10V. Because SNR is directly proportional to the voltage at which the panel is driven, this feature allows Cypress to sense smaller signals than the competitors in the presence of high noise sources. The Gen4 family also makes use of Cypress’s patented self plus mutual capacitance sensing technology. TrueTouch is the only solution with the ability to execute both self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance measurements in the same device—and switch dynamically between the two in application. These capabilities enable both the Magic Touch and water rejection features on the Ascend Mate.

The HUAWEI Ascend Mate combines superior performance with a unique set of features, ensuring end customers have an optimal touchscreen user experience. Its screen-to-body ratio is 73%, one of the highest in the industry, maximizing viewing pleasure for emails, video and games. The 6.1-inch HD IPS+ LCD screen has a resolution of 1280 x 720 for unsurpassed clarity and color accuracy. The Ascend Mate is also very slim, with a thickness of just 6.5 mm at its narrowest part.

"We’re excited to team with HUAWEI on this outstanding smartphone," said John Carey, Senior Director of TrueTouch Marketing at Cypress. “The Ascend Mate showcases many of the reasons that TrueTouch is the premier touchscreen solution in the industry.”

Touch Leadership
Cypress’s touch-sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing TrueTouch, CapSense®, and TrackPad solutions. The company’s IP portfolio is unmatched, including true, single-layer sensor solutions for dramatically reduced touchscreen costs and self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip that enables advanced features such as waterproofing, proximity sensing, support for 1-mm stylus, and hover.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, PSoC 4, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families. Cypress is the world leader in capacitive user interface solutions including CapSense touch sensing, TrueTouch touchscreens, and trackpad solutions for notebook PCs and peripherals. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, which enhance connectivity and performance in a wide range of consumer and industrial products. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM and nonvolatile RAM memories. Cypress serves numerous major markets, including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, TrueTouch, PSoC, and CapSense are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Vanzo Communication Inc., a global provider of mobile handset solutions based in China, has selected the TrueTouch® touchscreen solution for its X1 series Android smartphone. The touchscreen uses Cypress’s SLIM® (Single-Layer Independent Multi-touch) sensor to deliver high-performance accuracy and responsiveness with a true single-layer sensor panel. The SLIM sensor enables the phone to track common gestures such as pinch, zoom, flick, drag, swipe, and others requiring more than two fingers.

SLIM is the industry’s first true single-substrate, single-layer Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) touchscreen sensor in production. Unlike competitive solutions, it requires no additional insulation layers or bridges. The elimination of a second sensor layer can save mobile device manufacturers 40 percent or more on sensor costs, which is often the most expensive part of the touchscreen module. A single-layer structure also greatly reduces the thickness of the sensor module. A video on the SLIM sensor technology is featured at www.cypress.com/go/truetouch.

“Many smartphones on the market today in China do not offer capacitive touchscreens because of the cost, or they offer only basic touch features,” said John Carey, Senior Director of TrueTouch Marketing at Cypress. “The SLIM sensor enables outstanding multi-touch and gesture tracking for the Vanzo X1 series, and we believe the top-notch touchscreen interface will serve as a true differentiator for smartphones in high-volume markets.”

“The Cypress single-layer SLIM sensor delivers excellent multi-touch touchscreen performance and contributes to the sleek design of our X1 series phones, while still allowing us to offer them at a competitive price-point for the high-volume smartphone market in China,” said Liu Junming, General Manager of Vanzo.

Traditional capacitive touchscreens use a two-layer sensor to deliver the accuracy and linearity required for today’s user experience. Cypress’s proprietary algorithms interface with the single-layer SLIM sensor to deliver two-layer performance for an unparalleled combination of user experience and cost sensitivity.

The SLIM sensor can be deposited directly on the cover glass to create the thinnest touchscreen phones ever. The sensor pattern for SLIM is even more unique in that it can eliminate the requirement for a side bezel, normally about 2 mm on each side of the end product. This feature enables borderless display modules that allow OEMs to use larger displays without changing the form factor of the phone.

About TrueTouch

Cypress’s TrueTouch solution offers the world’s widest array of features, including true single-layer sensor support, waterproofing, 1-mm passive stylus support, hover capability, and the Charger Armor feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. More information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Vanzo Communication Inc.

Shanghai Vanzo Communication Inc. was established in 2009. The company is committed to providing advanced wireless communication devices, services and total solutions to global users via its solid ID/MD, HW/SW design, PCBA manufacturing, Testing, and QA. For more information on Vanzo, please visit www.vanzotec.com/.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs, and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, TrueTouch, SLIM, PSoC, CapSense, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced its TrueTouch® and CapSense® controllers drive the capacitive touchscreen, buttons and sliders in the new 2013 Toyota Avalon. The TrueTouch-based 7-inch capacitive touchscreen delivers very clear images and highly responsive multi-touch performance for the navigation system and infotainment control. The stylish, simple-to-adjust IntelliTouch™ capacitive buttons and slider controls for the audio and climate control systems are based on CapSense. The touchscreen and CapSense controls replace a resistive touchscreen and mechanical buttons respectively, dramatically improving the look and functionality of the Avalon interior. The control systems were designed by global automotive supplier DENSO for Toyota Motor Corporation.

“DENSO and Toyota are world renown for unmatched quality,” said Hassane El-Khoury, executive vice president of the Programmable Systems Division at Cypress. “We are pleased that they have chosen to implement our leading touch technology inside the interior of the Avalon. We look forward to working on future projects as we establish Cypress as the world leader in capacitive touch solutions for the automotive market.”

“The engineers at DENSO and Toyota have delivered an elegant and innovative touch-based user interface working with our team in Japan,” said Kazuyoshi Yamada, Vice President of Japan Sales. “This is a testament to the excellent quality of Cypress’s automotive offerings.”

In addition to TrueTouch and CapSense solutions, Cypress offers USB and memory products for the automotive market. To learn more about Cypress’s automotive solutions, visit www.cypress.com/go/automotive.

About TrueTouch

Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About CapSense

Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solutions have replaced over 4 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, TrueTouch, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 25, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today introduced its next-generation Gen5 TrueTouch® controller product line that delivers the world’s most noise-immune touchscreen control technology, shattering current standards for performance in noise from all sources. Gen5 offers unprecedented 40 volt peak-to-peak (Vpp) charger noise immunity measured from 1 to 500 kHz with an ultra-thin 0.5-mm cover lens and a finger-size up to 22 mm—the most stringent specifications used to measure any touchscreen controller. No competing controllers deliver noise immunity over 15 Vpp under these conditions.

The Gen5 controllers have been architected with a new analog front-end that drives the touchscreen at 10 V and at high frequency with narrow-band, single-pass scanning and advanced hardware DSP filtering. Gen5’s unmatched noise immunity enables designers of next-generation handsets to implement ultra-thin, display-integrated stackups, including In-Cell, On-Cell, & direct lamination onto a noisy display. The result will be thinner, sleeker end products with no missed or false touches and low jitter (less than 0.5 mm). More information on the new Gen5 controller family is available online at touch.cypress.com.

“Cypress continues to lead the industry in touchscreen innovation and Gen5 now eliminates noise from any charger,” said John Carey, Senior Director of TrueTouch Marketing. “This removes performance issues resulting in product returns, simplifies touchscreen design, and reduces overall product costs while delivering the best touchscreen user experience.”

Cypress brings many other TrueTouch innovations to the Gen5 family. With Cypress’s unique and patented ability to deliver both self- and mutual-capacitance sensing on the same chip, Gen5 offers the industry’s best waterproofing for seamless performance in real-world conditions, including the presence of rain, condensation, or sweat. By combining this powerful architecture with an industry leading ARM M-Core processor that is known for high-efficiency MIPS/mW, Gen5 boasts a 120Hz refresh rates, and a deep-sleep mode that only draws 4.5 uW. The new devices currently offer up to 36 capacitive sensing I/Os for ideal sensor pitch with screens up to 5 inches and support standalone CapSense® touch-sensing buttons.

Touch Leadership

Cypress’s touch-sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing TrueTouch®, CapSense®, and TrackPad solutions. The company’s IP portfolio is unmatched, including true, single-layer sensor solutions for dramatically reduced touchscreen costs and self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip that enables advanced features such as waterproofing, proximity sensing, support for 1-mm stylus, and hover.

Availability

Production samples of the new Gen5 controllers are now available to lead customers. Cypress expects to ship volume production to lead customers in the second quarter of 2013. The family will be available in a 44-pin 5 mm x 5 mm QFN with 28 sense I/Os, a 44-pin 5 mm x 5 mm QFN with 33 sense I/Os, and a 48-pin 6 mm x 6 mm QFN package with 36 sense I/Os.

About TrueTouch

Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, SLIM, and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Tx-Boost is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 24, 2013 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch® Gen4 touchscreen solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreen in the new Arrows V F-04E smartphone available from NTT DOCOMO. The new Fujitsu phone, which uses the Android operating systems and operates on the 4G LTE network, leverages the Gen4 solution’s leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to deliver highly responsive and accurate multitouch performance in any operating environment. Gen4 also provides industry-leading waterproofing capability, enabling accurate touch input and finger tracking in the presence of moisture from rain, condensation, or sweat.

The Fujitsu Arrows V F-04E has a quad-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM to provide the power to process information at 4G LTE speeds of up to 100 Mbps. The phone features a dynamic 4.7-inch HD display that offers precise tracking of up to ten fingers with the Gen4 controller. The TrueTouch solution also provides a Charger Armor™ feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. The Gen4 family also offers features that only TrueTouch can deliver, such as built-in waterproofing functionality that allows the product to meet IP-67 standards without extra sealants or shield layers.

“The combination of Fujitsu’s leading-edge features and Cypress’s robust touchscreen solutions continues to result in best-in-class smartphones,” said Cathal Phelan, Executive Vice President of the Consumer and Computation Division at Cypress. “The solid relationship that Cypress has with Fujitsu is a testament to the industry-leading flexibility, feature set and performance of our TrueTouch touchscreen solution.”

“Fujitsu continues their strong tradition of innovation with this new feature-rich Arrows smartphone,” said Kazuyoshi Yamada, vice president of Japan Sales for Cypress. “Our team of engineers in Japan has worked closely with Fujitsu to help them develop touchscreen interfaces that add outstanding usability to their phones.”

About Cypress Gen4
The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in real-world applications. The Gen4 touchscreen controller delivers 10V Tx along with Cypress’s proprietary Tx-Boost™ multi-phase Tx solution for the highest in-application SNR in the industry. Combined with TrueTouch’s unique Charger Armor noise-mitigating technology and display noise cancellation algorithms, Gen4 leads the field in performance in the presence of noise. Gen4 also offers value-added features such as built-in waterproofing capability and support for display integrated designs.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch solution offers the world’s widest array of features, including true single-layer sensor support, waterproofing, 1-mm passive stylus support, hover capability, and the Charger Armor feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. More information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs, and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Tx-Boost and Charger Armor are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 10, 2012 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today introduced the newest members of the TrueTouch® Gen4 touchscreen controller line. Gen4X controllers offer the industry’s highest noise immunity, and were designed for cost-sensitive platforms including models for the rapidly growing China smartphone market. They deliver unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources - the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs - and support both in-cell and SLIM® single-layer structures to meet system-level price points needed to drive high volumes in emerging markets. Improvements to the family’s analog front-end minimized size and enabled twice the charger noise immunity of previous Gen4 offerings, which have gained popularity with industry leaders around the world due to outstanding performance in noisy environments. More information on the new Gen4X controller family is available online at touch.cypress.com.

“The China smartphone market is exploding, and Cypress’s TrueTouch solutions deliver superior performance for those platforms,” said John Carey, Senior Director of TrueTouch Marketing for Cypress. “Gen4X extends the Gen4 family leadership by offering the world’s first price-sensitive solutions that outperform all competitors in noise immunity.”

Gen4X provides the world’s most robust immunity to charger noise: up to 15V peak-to-peak (Vpp) from 1 - 500 kHz, with a 0.5-mm cover lens and a 22-mm-wide finger. Gen4X takes signal-to-noise ratio to unmatched heights, thanks to Cypress’s unique ability to deliver on-chip 10V Tx and proprietary Tx-Boost™ multi-phase Tx solution.

Gen4X also delivers high-performance, multitouch functionality with customizable advanced features, including Cypress’s industry-leading waterproofing capability. The entire Gen4 family works flawlessly with moisture on the touchscreen and/or with wet fingers. These features are enabled by Cypress’s unique, patent-pending ability to provide both self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip.

Fast, Low-Power System Solutions
Gen4X employs the same 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core that is at the heart of the Gen4 family to deliver the best combination of speed and low-power consumption. The family easily delivers a refresh rate of 150 Hz, and a deep-sleep mode that only draws 4.5 uW with wake-up initiated via address match on the COM port.

Gen4X devices offer up to 36 capacitive sensing I/Os for ideal sensor pitch with screens up to 5 inches, support standalone CapSense® touch-sensing buttons, and drive both in-cell structures and SLIM single-layer sensors. Gen4X is the first toucschreen controller family to bring Superphone performance to emerging markets.

Touch Leadership
Cypress’s touch-sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing TrueTouch®, CapSense®, and TrackPad solutions. The company’s IP portfolio is unmatched, including true, single-layer sensor solutions for dramatically reduced touchscreen costs and self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip that enables advanced features such as waterproofing, proximity sensing, support for 1-mm stylus, and hover.

Availability
Samples of the new Gen4X controllers are now available to lead customers. Cypress expects to deliver volume production to lead customers in the first quarter of 2013. The family will be available in a 44-pin 5 mm x 5 mm QFN with 28 sense I/Os, a 44-pin 5 mm x 5 mm QFN with 33 sense I/Os, and a 48-pin 6 mm x 6 mm QFN package with 36 sense I/Os..

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, SLIM, and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Tx-Boost is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 18, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) has selected its TrueTouch® automotive touchscreen solution for the infotainment system in Model S, the world’s first premium electric sedan. The 17-inch touchscreen in Model S is the largest in a production vehicle to date, and is the first to integrate all functional controls into a touchscreen. To Model S, the TrueTouch solution brings design flexibility and a multi-touch experience that users expect even in challenging conditions.

The touchscreen in Model S seamlessly integrates multimedia apps and content, sound system, communication and HVAC controls, navigation, and vehicle data into one central location. Cypress’s automotive TrueTouch solution provides unmatched flexibility providing the ability to track ten fingers at once. To learn more about Cypress’s automotive solutions, visit www.cypress.com/go/automotive. 

“To power the 17-inch touchscreen we needed a partner who could handle the challenge of supporting the largest touchscreen in the automotive industry with flexible, reliable and durable architecture,” said Craig Carlson, vice president of software and electrical integration at Tesla. “Cypress has shown tremendous leadership in the touch market and has worked diligently to meet our design requirements. From the beginning, Cypress’s TrueTouch solution has delivered great accuracy, speed and linearity.”

“Tesla’s Model S is a truly revolutionary vehicle, and we’re excited to have our automotive TrueTouch solution power the centerpiece of its interior,” said Hassane El-Khoury, executive vice president of the Programmable Systems Division at Cypress. “The Model S touchscreen provides an outstanding showcase for what TrueTouch can do. It demonstrates the solution’s flexibility in creating the world’s first fully-integrated and largest infotainment system touchscreen, while highlighting its best-in-class user experience.”

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Tesla
Tesla’s goal is to accelerate the world’s transition to electric mobility. Palo Alto, California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs and EV power train components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler. Tesla has delivered more than 2,350 Roadsters to customers worldwide. Model S, the first premium sedan to be built from the ground up as an electric vehicle, began deliveries in June 2012. For more information visit www.teslamotors.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, TrueTouch, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 17, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced that Pantech Co., Ltd. has selected the Gen4 TrueTouch® touchscreen controller for its flagship Vega R3 smartphone. The Gen4 solution brings dynamic multi-finger tracking to Vega R3’s vibrant screen, with leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) to deliver highly responsive and accurate touch performance in any operating environment.

Pantech’s Vega R3 features a large 5.3-inch LCD display that presents bright, clear images with natural colors. The TrueTouch solution enables an ultra-thin bezel around the screen on the Vega R3, allowing the phone to fit comfortably in one hand. The phone’s quad-core CPU and 2 GB of RAM provide users with a complete multitasking environment to execute multiple applications simultaneously.

“Pantech timed the debut of the Vega R3 to go head-to-head against new smartphones from larger competitors, which is a reflection of the confidence we have in the features of this model,” said Yeonsu Lee, Senior MTS, R&D Center, at Pantech. “The Cypress TrueTouch solution provided the design flexibility and multi-finger tracking performance we required to make the Vega R3 touchscreen a differentiating feature of the phone.”

"The Pantech Vega R3 is a world-class smartphone, and we are pleased that TrueTouch technology powers the touchscreen," said Cathal Phelan, Executive Vice President of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. "The Gen4 TrueTouch solution contributes to the sleek design of the phone while delivering top multitouch performance even in the noisiest of operating conditions."

About Cypress Gen4
The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver leading signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) in real-world applications. The Gen4 touchscreen controller delivers 10V Tx along with Cypress’s proprietary Tx-Boost™ solution for the highest in-application SNR in the industry. Combined with TrueTouch’s unique Charger Armor™ noise-mitigating technology and display noise cancellation algorithms, Gen4 leads the field in performance in the presence of noise. Gen4 also offers value-added features such as built-in waterproofing capability and support for display integrated designs.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch solution offers the world’s widest array of features, including true single-layer sensor support, waterproofing, 1-mm passive stylus support, hover capability, and the Charger Armor feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. More information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Pantech
Pantech Co., Ltd., is one of Korea's top three mobile handset makers. Pantech has received wide-ranging industry recognition for its innovative handset designs, and has also introduced a significant number of breakthrough technologies in the mobile phone industry. Established in 1991, Pantech collectively has approximately 3,000 employees and 4 regional sales offices worldwide. For more information on Pantech, please visit www.pantech.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs, and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Tx-Boost and Charger Armor are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 05, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY), the world leader in touch-sensing solutions, today announced that it has shipped over 1 billion capacitive touch units. Included in the billion units are Cypress’s TrueTouch® touchscreen controllers; CapSense® controllers for mechanical button, slider and switch replacement; and trackpad units for cursor navigation in laptop computers.

Cypress shipped its first touch-sensing solutions in 2005 with a CapSense mechanical button and slider replacement for a popular portable music player. Cypress introduced its first TrueTouch touchscreen solutions in 2007. The company added trackpads to its offerings in 2010.  The rapid ramp of these solutions is attributable to numerous technical innovations, which have yielded 50 touch-centric patents granted and well over 200 in process. Cypress’s market penetration has included a wide variety of end-products, including high-volume mobile handsets, tablets, automotive applications, consumer electronics, white goods, industrial products and many more.

“Our touch-sensing business is a prime example of the success of our programmable product strategy, and Cypress’s ability to scale successful technologies,” said Cathal Phelan, Executive Vice President of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “Leveraging our PSoC® platform, we were able to quickly enter, and then dominate, multiple, fast-growing touch-sensing markets. As a result, we now have a strong leadership position in these markets with a deep IP portfolio.”

About TrueTouch
TrueTouch controllers deliver full-featured, highly accurate touchscreens from the world leader in touch technology. With the best touch performance and strongest portfolio of proprietary touch technology, TrueTouch opens the door to a new era in touch interfaces for the world’s leading manufacturers of mobile phones, tablets and other touchscreen-enabled products. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About CapSense
CapSense is the industry’s leading solution for capacitive-touch buttons, sliders and switches. CapSense devices have replaced over 4 billion mechanical buttons in consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and any system that has a button or switch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC 1, PSoC 3, and PSoC 5 programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives, CapSense touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets, PCs and tablets. Cypress is also the world leader in SRAM memories. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 19, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its TrueTouch® controllers drive the “floating touch™” navigation feature for magic web browsing on the hot new Xperia™ sola smartphone from Sony Mobile Communications.

The Xperia sola’s floating touch is the world’s first smartphone to allow users to navigate by hovering a finger above the screen so it acts like a moving cursor without actually touching the screen. Once the desired link is found it can be highlighted and a simple tap will load the page. This alleviates the common problem of tiny links on a phone screen that are very difficult to access. This technology also enables users to operate the Xperia sola flawlessly while wearing even thick gloves, a very convenient feature for users in cold climates. More information about the Xperia sola, including a video showing the unique floating touch navigation feature, is available at http://pressreleases.sonymobile.com/2012/0313/english.

Cypress’s TrueTouch controllers enable this striking new feature with patent-pending technology that is unavailable from other suppliers. TrueTouch is the only solution with the ability to execute both self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance measurements in the same device—and switch dynamically between the two in application. This capability enables the hover and glove touch functionality.

"We're excited to offer the world's first smartphone with hover capability," said Erik Hellman, Master Engineer at Sony Mobile Communications. "We think this technology will change the way people interact with their phones, offering new capabilities and functionality that will dramatically enhance the mobile experience. Cypress's TrueTouch technology was instrumental in enabling this feature, and the Cypress team partnered with us to bring it out on schedule."

"The Xperia sola is a tremendous showcase for TrueTouch technology," said Dhwani Vyas, Vice President of Cypress's User Interface Business Unit. "TrueTouch is unique in its ability to support hover functionality, and we're excited to see the outstanding implementation of this technology within the Xperia sola."

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch solution offers the world’s widest array of features, including 1-mm passive stylus support, proximity detection, waterproofing and the Charger Armor™ feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. More information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 26, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today introduced the TMA140 TrueTouch® controllers for lower-cost mobile phones. The new family offers high-performance touchscreen control, including multi-finger support and best-in-class Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) for screens of up to five inches. The new controllers also support Cypress’s patent-pending Charger Armor™ feature, which uses adaptive frequency hopping and other techniques to prevent false touches due to excessive noise from a charger.

The new TMA140 family delivers high performance multi-touch capabilities on a feature phone budget. The low power family offers better than 0.5-mm accuracy, delivers gesture capability, works flawlessly with Android and is now in mass production.

TMA140 was designed to work with SLIM®, Cypress’s Single Layer Independent Multi-touch sensor. SLIM is a true single-substrate, single layer ITO touchscreen sensor.  Unlike competitive solutions, it requires no additional insulation layers or bridges. This reduces the cost of traditional multi-touch sensors by roughly 40%, and also greatly reduces the thickness of the sensor module. TMA140 and SLIM create the world’s lowest cost multi-touch solution in the market, making multi-touch affordable for feature phones.

“By delivering a high-performance solution for the lower-cost phone market, Cypress is offering our customers a chance to shine versus their competition in very high volume markets,” said John Carey, Director of TrueTouch Marketing at Cypress. “We also have announced the SLIM sensor that enables true multi-touch into lower-cost phones via a single-layer sensor. TrueTouch now offers the industry’s best solution for the hottest new smartphones (our Gen4™ controllers) as well as lower cost features phones, and everything in between.”

Availability
The TMA140 sensor family is available today from Cypress. Customers can select from either 36-pin or 48-pin QFN packages.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 27, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled the industry’s first single-layer touchscreen sensor solution with multitouch capability. The new SLIM® (Single-Layer Independent Multitouch) sensor delivers high-performance touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness with a true single-layer sensor panel, drastically reducing the cost of the most expensive component of the touchscreen. It enables low-cost touchscreen phones to offer users the ability to perform gestures such as pinch, zoom, flick, drag, swipe and other gestures requiring more than two fingers.

Increasingly, capacitive touchscreens are viewed as a differentiator for mobile devices. Many lower-priced “feature phones” do not offer capacitive touchscreens today because of the cost, or offer only rudimentary touch features. The Slim sensor opens up new “feature phones” and lower-cost smartphones to capacitive touchscreens that include popular multi-finger gesture interfaces.

SLIM is a true single-substrate, single layer ITO touchscreen sensor.  Unlike competitive solutions, it requires no additional insulation layers or bridges. This reduces the cost versus multi-touch sensors by roughly 40%, and also greatly reduces the thickness of the sensor module. SLIM can be deposited directly on the cover glass to create the thinnest touchscreen phones ever.

The SLIM sensor pattern is even more unique in that it can eliminate the requirement for a side-bezel, normally about 2 mm on each side of the end product. This feature enables borderless display modules that allow OEMs to use larger displays without changing the form-factor of the phone.

“The ability to offer thinner, less expensive phones with true multitouch capability is a tremendous advantage for our customers,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “We are making the SLIM sensor available with our Gen4 controllers, among others, to enable truly outstanding performance. Feature phones with top-notch touchscreen interfaces will be a true differentiator in many high-volume markets.”

The combination of the SLIM sensor and the Gen4 controller will allow the world’s slimmest touchscreen devices, as Gen4’s industry-leading noise immunity enables sensor-on-lens configurations that are directly laminated to the display with no shielding or air gaps.

Traditional capacitive touchscreens use a two-layer sensor to deliver the accuracy and linearity required for today’s user experience. Cypress has developed proprietary algorithms that interface with a true single-layer sensor with no bridges to deliver two-layer performance for an unparalleled combination of user experience and cost sensitivity. The removal of this second sensor layer can save mobile device manufacturers 40 percent or more on sensor costs, which is often the most expensive part of the touchscreen module.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 24, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that NVIDIA and Cypress are collaborating on next-generation touchscreen solutions for Android-based mobile devices based on Cypress’s Gen 4  True Touch Solution and NVIDIA’s DirectTouch™ architecture. The new architecture utilizes the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 processor, the world’s only 4-PLUS-1™ quad-core processor with a fifth battery saver core.

DirectTouch is a new Tegra 3 technology that offloads some of the touch panel processing to one of the Tegra 3’s four CPU cores for faster touch processing and an improved end-user experience, while also reducing power. Combining this high speed processing with the advanced analog of the Gen4 family will enable very thin displays with excellent responsiveness. 

Glenn Schuster, Director of Technical Marketing, at NVIDIA, added, “It’s great to be working with Cypress to improve the customer touchscreen experience. Teaming DirectTouch with Cypress’ touch technology helps our partners create quad-core mobile devices with an even better mobile touch experience and longer battery life.” 

“It’s exciting to work on new ways to deliver higher performance touchscreen solutions,” said John Carey, Director of TrueTouch Marketing for Cypress. “As the touchscreen leader, we’re pleased to partner with NVIDIA in making the DirectTouch architecture successful.”

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Tegra 3
NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 is the world’s only 4-PLUS-1 quad-core processor with a fifth battery saver core for tablets and super phones – delivering up to 5x the performance of the first dual-core processor, Tegra 2. Tegra 3 combines an extremely power-efficient PC-class multi-core CPU and a 12-core GeForce GPU with stereo 3D support to deliver high performance and low power consumption.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. NVIDIA, Tegra and GeForce are registered trademarks of NVIDIA. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 7, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that its single-chip Gen4 TrueTouch® controllers support the new Windows 8 operating system from Microsoft® Corp. Windows 8 is designed to provide a rich, touch-centric experience for users of tablets, laptops and desktop PCs. The TrueTouch Controllers offer the industry’s best noise immunity, fastest refresh rate, lowest power and highest accuracy. Cypress has worked with Microsoft to ensure compatibility with Windows 8, and is now part of Microsoft’s on-boarding program to prepare for the official release of Windows 8.

The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver the world’s highest SNR in real world applications. It is the first and only touchscreen IC that delivers built-in 10V Tx to drive the touch panel at 10V.  Because SNR is directly proportional to the voltage at which the panel is driven, this feature allows Cypress to offer nearly four times the SNR of the next closest competitor. 

In addition to unmatched noise performance, the Gen4 product family offers the industry’s fastest refresh rate of 400Hz, and has the unique ability to scan a capacitive touch panel at 1,000 Hz – both industry-best metrics. This level of performance is enabled by the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core at the heart of the Gen4 products. The Gen4 family enables unlimited touch performance, while providing the industry’s best accuracy and linearity of 0.2 mm. Gen4 offers these features while boasting the world’s lowest active power consumption of 2 mW, and a deep sleep mode that only draws 1.8 uW with wake-up via address match on the COM port.

“We’re pleased to offer the Gen4 TrueTouch advantages to designers of Windows 8 systems,” said John Carey, Cypress’s Director of TrueTouch Marketing. “TrueTouch is the perfect vehicle to bring out all the capabilities of the touch-centric Windows 8 platform.”

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 26, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled a breakthrough feature for its Gen4 TrueTouch® touchscreen controllers that dramatically improves system performance without added cost. Cypress has developed a new proprietary technology based on Gen4’s patent-pending high-voltage Tx drivers.  Tx-Boost™ extends Gen4’s performance leadership by delivering three times higher signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) than previously possible. This is accomplished without the use of performance-robbing digital filters or external components, enabling manufacturer’s to produce the industry’s thinnest handsets and tablets with low material costs.

The key to excellent touchscreen performance in noisy environments is high SNR. Gen4 already delivers up to four times the raw SNR of the competition through its internally generated 10V Tx circuitry; whereas competitive offerings require customers to use large, expensive, and noisy external switching regulators to generate high-voltage Tx signaling. The Tx-Boost feature, now available on all TrueTouch Gen4 devices, uses specialized hardware acceleration to triple the already best-in-class SNR of the Gen4 family. This high SNR enables manufacturers to employ sensor-on-lens with direct lamination to displays and in-cell architectures with flawless performance for the thinnest products in the market.

In addition, Tx-Boost efficiently parallelizes multiple operations in hardware, without burdening the CPU with costly digital filtering. This significantly increases Gen4’s scan speed, making the world’s fastest touchscreen controller even faster. These parallel operations also further improve Gen4’s industry-leading power consumption by increasing the amount of idle time during each scan period.

“We understand that touchscreen customers are in highly competitive markets and need constantly improving technology to stay ahead,” said Dhwani Vyas, Vice President of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “We’re pleased to provide Tx-Boost to enable the industry’s best controller family to extend its leadership against competitive offerings. Customers who have seen this technology in action have been universally impressed.”

Availability
The Tx-Boost solution is now available on all Gen4 TrueTouch devices.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch® solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 10, 2012 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today introduced a new Gen4 TrueTouch® controller targeted at the rapidly growing tablet and ultrabook market. The new CY8CTMA1036 device has 65 sense-I/Os, enabling it to deliver flawless touchscreen performance for screens up to 12 inches. Like the smaller-screen Gen4 devices, it offers industry-best performance in all categories, including the world’s best signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources—the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs. Gen4 also has the lowest active power consumption, unparalleled tracking accuracy and the fastest refresh rates. It provides full support for major mobile operating systems including Win8 and Android.

The new CY8CTMA1036 uses a 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core, and offers 65 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 1036 nodes on the screen, 35 percent more than any other single-chip solution. Additional sensing channels are essential for greater accuracy, linearity, support for smaller sized fingers and the ability to resolve multiple fingers close together.

“We’re getting the same positive reaction from tablet manufacturers as we did from the handset sector,” said Dhwani Vyas, Vice President of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “Customers are excited to apply the benefits of Gen4’s noise immunity, low power and superior performance in a single-chip package to their tablet designs. We’re sampling multiple customers now and expect to start production shipments by the end of this quarter.”

Breakthrough Noise Elimination
The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver the world’s highest SNR in real world applications. It is the first and only touchscreen IC that delivers built-in 10V Tx to drive the touch panel at 10V.  Because SNR is directly proportional to the voltage at which the panel is driven, this feature allows Cypress to offer nearly four times the SNR of the next closest competitor.

The Gen4 family further raises the SNR bar as the first touchscreen device family to completely eliminate display noise in hardware. Gen4’s patent-pending Display Armor™ offers unprecedented immunity to noise from every type of display, even noisy low-cost displays such as ACVCOM LCDs. This allows touchscreen designers to make their products thinner by removing the air gap between the display and the sensor, and also less expensive by removing the shield layer in the sensor. Display Armor allows Gen4 to operate seamlessly with direct lamination, on-cell and in-cell stackups, regardless of the display chemistry.

World’s Fastest and Lowest Power Touchscreen Controller
In addition to unmatched noise performance, the Gen4 platform offers the world’s lowest active power consumption of 2 mW, and a deep sleep mode that only draws 1.8 uW with wake-up via address match on the COM port. Shortened battery life is a common issue for smartphones and other portable touchscreen devices. Gen4 gives OEMs another tool to help solve this problem. The Gen4 product family also boasts the industry’s fastest refresh rate of 400Hz, and has the unique ability to scan a capacitive touch panel at 1,000 Hz – both industry-best metrics. This level of performance is enabled by the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core at the heart of the Gen4 products. The Gen4 family enables unlimited touch performance, while providing the industry’s best accuracy and linearity of 0.2 mm.

The Gen4 family also offers features that only TrueTouch can deliver, including waterproofing functionality that allows products to meet IP-67 standards; 1-mm stylus support for Asian character sets and accurate handwriting capture; and hover sensing to provide mouseover-like features and true fingernail or thick-glove support in mobile devices. Cypress’s unique, patent-pending ability to switch dynamically between self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods in application enables these differentiating features. Cypress now has over 250 issued and pending patents pertaining to touchscreens. More information, including multiple videos, is available at touch.cypress.com.

Touchscreen Leadership
Cypress’s touch sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing both TrueTouch and CapSense® solutions. The Gen4 family is the latest in a string of touchscreen firsts from Cypress, the acknowledged industry leader in touch sensing. Examples include:

• Cypress was the first to deliver tracking of unlimited touches.
• Cypress was the first to deliver a true single-layer sensor solution for capacitive performance at resistive prices.
• The new Gen4 family, as well as prior generations, is offered in the world’s smallest CSP packages for important space savings in handsets.
• Cypress is still the only company to offer the patent-pending self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip, enabling the development of advanced features like waterproofing, support for 1mm stylus, and hover without increased material or spatial costs.
• TrueTouch is designed to work with major mobile platforms, including Android and Windows® 8.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 29, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that its recently introduced Gen4 family of TrueTouch® touchscreen controllers is now in production ahead of schedule. Gen4 delivers industry-best performance in all categories, including the world’s best signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) and unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources—the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs. Gen4 also has the lowest active power consumption, assisting manufacturers in solving the ever increasing battery life issues common to handheld touchscreen devices.

“Customer reaction to the Gen 4 products has exceeded our high expectations and is expected to set new design win records for our True Touch products,” said Dhwani Vyas, Vice President of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “The ability to build thinner phones with flawless touchscreen performance without additional cost is proving to be extremely attractive to manufacturers. In addition, initial customer production shipments will begin in the first quarter of 2012, ahead of our previous estimates.”

Breakthrough Noise Elimination

The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver the world’s highest SNR in real world applications. It is the first and only touchscreen IC that delivers built-in 10V Tx to drive the touch panel at 10V. Because SNR is directly proportional to the voltage at which the panel is driven, this feature allows Cypress to offer nearly four times the SNR of the next closest competitor.

The Gen4 family further raises the SNR bar as the first touchscreen device family to completely eliminate display noise in hardware. Gen4’s patent-pending Display Armor™ offers unprecedented immunity to noise from every type of display, even noisy low-cost displays such as ACVCOM LCDs. This allows touchscreen designers to make their products thinner by removing the air gap between the display and the sensor, and also less expensive by removing the shield layer in the sensor. Display Armor allows Gen4 to operate seamlessly with direct lamination, on-cell and in-cell stackups, regardless of the display chemistry.

World’s Fastest and Lowest Power Touchscreen Controller

In addition to unmatched noise performance, Gen4 offers the world’s lowest active power consumption of 2 mW, and a deep sleep mode that only draws 1.8 uW with wake-up via address match on the COM port. Shortened battery life is a common issue for smartphones and other portable touchscreen devices. Gen4 gives OEMs another tool to help solve this problem. The Gen4 product family also boasts the industry’s fastest refresh rate of 400Hz, and has the unique ability to scan a capacitive touch panel at 1,000 Hz – both industry-best metrics. This level of performance is enabled by the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core at the heart of the Gen4 products. The Gen4 family enables unlimited touch performance, while providing the industry’s best accuracy and linearity of 0.2 mm.

Gen4 also offers more capacitive sensing I/O than the competition, while still fitting into the world’s smallest touchscreen packages. With up to 40 I/O for mobile phone applications, Gen4 can support up to four standalone CapSense® buttons while still delivering ideal sensor pitch for up to 5-inch screens.

The Gen4 family also offers features that only TrueTouch can deliver, including waterproofing functionality that allows products to meet IP-67 standards; 1-mm stylus support for Asian character sets and accurate handwriting capture; and hover sensing to provide mouseover-like features and true fingernail or thick-glove support in mobile devices. Cypress’s unique, patent-pending ability to switch dynamically between self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods in application enables these differentiating features. Cypress now has over 250 issued and pending patents pertaining to touchscreens. More information, including multiple videos, is available at touch.cypress.com.

Touchscreen Leadership

Cypress’s touch sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing both TrueTouch and CapSense® solutions. The Gen4 family is the latest in a string of touchscreen firsts from Cypress, the acknowledged industry leader in touch sensing. Examples include:

• Cypress was the first to deliver tracking of unlimited touches.
• Cypress was the first to deliver a true single-layer sensor solution for capacitive performance at resistive prices.
• The new Gen4 family, as well as prior generations, is offered in the world’s smallest CSP packages for important space savings in handsets.
• Cypress is still the only company to offer the patent-pending self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip, enabling the development of advanced features like waterproofing, support for 1mm stylus, and hover without increased material or spatial costs.
• TrueTouch is designed to work with major mobile platforms, including Android and Windows ® 8.

About TrueTouch

Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., June 24, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced a free, online seminar that shows designers how to create highly-integrated capacitive touch-sensing designs with programmable systems. The 60-minute webinar, entitled “Simplify Your Capacitive Touch-Sensing Designs,” will be presented in conjunction with EE Times on Thursday, July 1 at 9:00 a.m. PDT. Registration is available at www.techonline.com/learning/livewebinar/225600343.

Typical touch-sensing designs require multiple discrete components, each of which adds cost and occupies board space. The presenter will demonstrate how Cypress's CapSense® Plus™ family gives engineers more design flexibility through greater configurability and better performance of digital and analog resources for implementing PWMs, timers, communication interfaces such as I2C and SPI, ADCs and more. Leveraging a dedicated dual-channel interface allows a single device to implement multiple buttons and slider interfaces while managing functions such as motor control, intelligent sensing, LED control and more.

The CapSense family is based on Cypress’s PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, allowing for dynamic reprogramming of analog and digital components in minutes. This enables designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. With fixed-function components, making changes can be time consuming and cause project delays. By contrast, a programmable approach enables designers to implement system changes with no new silicon and without having to redesign circuit boards. The webinar will teach designers how to leverage these programmable systems to accelerate time to market and lower overall system cost.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry-leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost. More information about PSoC products is available at www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and CapSense Plus, PSoC Designer and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 9, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that NVIDIA has certified Cypress’s new single-chip TrueTouch™ solution for its large touchscreens on the reference design for the NVIDIA® Tegra® 3 quad-core mobile processor. The reference design is a tablet form-factor device with a 10.1-inch screen targeted at upcoming high-performance Android 4.0 (Ice Cream Sandwich)-based tablets.

The world’s first quad-core mobile processor for tablets and super phones, Tegra 3 delivers up to 5x the performance of the first dual-core processor, Tegra 2. Tegra 3 features a new patent-pending Variable SMP (vSMP) architecture with a fifth lower-power “companion” core, a PC-class CPU and 3X faster GPU with stereo 3D support to deliver the best combination of high performance and extended battery life.

The new, high-performance CY8CTMA884 TrueTouch™ solution is the first single-chip controller for large multitouch touchscreens up to 11.6 inches. The CY8CTMA884 family offers 60 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 884 nodes on the screen, more than any other single-chip solution. Additional sensing channels are essential for greater accuracy, linearity, support for smaller sized fingers and the ability to resolve multiple fingers close together. It provides 10-finger touch support, low power consumption, grip and palm rejection, high accuracy, and fast scan times. 

“NVIDIA’s Tegra 3 processor brings tablet performance to a new level,” said Derek Richardson, Sr. Director of Cypress’s Large Touchscreen Business Unit. “We’re pleased that our TrueTouch single-chip solution has been certified for the Tegra 3 reference design, to help customers bring their new tablets to market quickly.”
 
Bill Henry, Director of Tegra Platform Management at NVIDIA, added, “Touchscreen performance is a critical aspect of the user experience. The TrueTouch solution has the power and flexibility to complement Tegra 3’s quad-core capabilities.”

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. NVIDIA, Tegra and GeForce are registered trademarks of NVIDIA. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 8, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that its single-chip TrueTouch® controllers for large touchscreens, the CY8CTMA884 family, enables large-screen sensor-on-lens technology with direct lamination to the LCD. With this technology, manufacturers can deposit the conductive Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) sensor lines directly onto the cover glass. It only requires one panel, so tablets can be made much thinner, with less material costs and fewer manufacturing steps.

The CY8CTMA884 enables the cover glass to be directly laminated to the LCD with a very thin adhesive layer and no added shield layer. Many other solutions fail in this configuration because the increased electrical noise from proximity to the screen interferes with the ability to correctly interpret touches. Cypress’s proprietary noise immunity technology and high signal-to-noise ratio enable flawless performance in this configuration.

“We’re pleased to enable our customers to enjoy the benefits of sensor-on-lens technology, including thinner devices and lower costs,” said Derek Richardson, Senior Director of Cypress’s Large Touchscreen Business Unit. “TrueTouch led the industry by providing the first single-chip solution for large touchscreens, and we are doing so again with superior noise immunity and signal-to-noise ratio enabling economical and sleek new tablets.”

The high-performance, single-chip CY8CTMA884 TrueTouch solution for large multitouch touchscreens up to 11.6 inches offers 60 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 884 nodes on the screen, more than any other single-chip solution. Additional sensing channels are essential for greater accuracy, linearity, support for smaller sized fingers and the ability to resolve multiple fingers close together. The CY8CTMA884 offers all the benefits users have come to expect from TrueTouch devices, including 10-finger touch support, low power consumption, grip and palm rejection, high accuracy, and fast scan times.  Cypress’s large-screen TrueTouch platform expands its leadership position in small-screen portable electronics – such as handsets and portable navigation devices – into large-screen portable PC products and tablets. The devices are in full production today.

Touchscreen Leadership
Cypress’s touch sensing portfolio is the industry’s broadest and most well adopted, encompassing both TrueTouch and CapSense® solutions. Cypress is the acknowledged industry leader in touch sensing. Examples include:

* Cypress was the first to deliver tracking of unlimited touches.
* Cypress was the first to deliver a true single-layer sensor solution for capacitive performance at resistive prices.
* Cypress offers the world’s smallest CSP packages for important space savings.
* Cypress is still the only company to offer the patent-pending self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip, enabling the development of advanced features like waterproofing, support for 1mm stylus, and hover without increased material or spatial costs.

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world’s best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 20, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that its TrueTouch® controllers drive the touchscreens in the upcoming DragonBoard development platform based on Qualcomm Incorporated’s dual-core Snapdragon™ APQ8060 processor.  DragonBoard is available for purchase at www.bsquare.com.

DragonBoard gives both software and hardware developers a powerful, flexible platform to access Qualcomm‘s dual-core Snapdragon APQ8060 processor.  The open board is an easy-to-use platform for application development, testing and optimization.  Running on the Android™ platform, it allows designers to develop both smartphones and tablets, and its modular approach enables integration of a variety of features and functions such as compass, gyroscopic sensors and accelerometers.

The new, high-performance CY8CTMA884 TrueTouch solution is the first single-chip controller for large multi-touch touchscreens up to 11.6 inches.  The CY8CTMA884 family offers 60 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 884 nodes on the screen, more than any other single-chip solution.  Additional sensing channels are essential for greater accuracy, linearity, support for smaller sized fingers and the ability to resolve multiple fingers close together.  It provides 10-finger touch support, low power consumption, grip and palm rejection, high accuracy, and fast scan times.

“The DragonBoard is a powerful platform for mobile developers,” said Derek Richardson, Sr. Director of Cypress’s Large Touchscreen Business Unit..  “We’re excited to continue our collaboration with Qualcomm to make designing hot new phones and tablets fast and easy.”

“Cypress has proved to be a leading innovator in the touchscreen landscape,” said Tia Cassett, Senior Director of Business Development at Qualcomm.  “TrueTouch solutions in the DragonBoard enable flexible, high-performance touchscreen implementations with our next-generation processors.”

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules.  They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness.  In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multi-finger touch and very high signal-to-noise ratio of more than 80:1 RMS, low power consumption (less that 1.3 mA low-power state current), best-in-class water rejection and wet-finger tracking, and more.  Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. 

Qualcomm is a registered trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated.  Snapdragon is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated, registered in the United States and may be registered in other countries.  DragonBoard is a trademark of Qualcomm Incorporated.  All other products and company names may be trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 13, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) the market leader in touch-sensing, today introduced the PSoC® 3 CapSense® Plus capacitive touch-sensing solution for buttons, sliders, touchpads, and proximity sensing. It’s the industry’s best capacitive-sensing solution that can also perform general system control functions. To accomplish this task, the new product combines two premier Cypress product offerings, the PSoC 3 programmable system-on-chip and the industry-leading CapSense capacitive touch control technology.

PSoC 3 CapSense Plus lowers system design cost and eases the design process with Cypress’s revolutionary, patent-pending SmartSense™ auto-tuning algorithm, which eliminates the requirement for system tuning. SmartSense enables automatic tuning of more than 10 parameters to achieve optimal touch sensing performance. The graphical CapSense software module in Cypress’s PSoC Creator™ IDE makes it easy for designers to define combinations of buttons, sliders, touch pads and proximity-sensing capacitive sensors, and offers real-time feedback of parameters such as signal-to-noise ratio (SNR), finger threshold, noise threshold, and more.

The new PSoC 3 CapSense Plus devices offer up to 62 General Purpose I/O (GPIO) pins—all of which can handle CapSense signals—enabling the industry’s largest number of capacitive sensing elements in a single chip.  In addition, the new solution provides Cypress’s legendary noise immunity that ensures robust operation in the presence of noise from a variety of sources. More information on the new solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/psocpluscapsense.

In addition, an informative web-based module entitled “Upgrade your Capacitive Touch-Sensing Designs” is available at http://www.eetimes.com/electrical-engineers/education-training/courses/4229293/Upgrade-your-Capacitive-Touch-Sensing-Designs-.

Cypress is offering the CY8CKIT-031 PSoC CapSense Expansion Board Kit to speed designs with the new solution. The CY8CKIT-031 includes both button and slider modules, three separate overlays for prototyping, and a resource CD with example projects and application notes. The new kit’s adapter board allows engineers to plug in existing CapSense modules into the CY8CKIT-001 PSoC Development Kit or the CY8CKIT-030 PSoC 3 Development Kit, giving engineers access to the complete PSoC 3 ecosystem to create powerful, customized designs, and ease customers’ ability to re-use CapSense designs within the PSoC 3 environment.  The CapSense modules kits include the CY3280-BSM Simple Button Module Kit, the CY3280-SRM Radial Slider Module Kit, the CY3280-SLM Linear Slider Module Kit, and the CY3280-BMM Matrix Button Module Kit. For customer who already have these module kits, they are eligible for a 50 percent discount when purchasing the new CY8CKIT-031kit.  Designers can get more information and order the new kit at www.cypress.com/go/cy8ckit-031.

Today, engineers design capacitive touch user interfaces separately from the central system control function. In most cases, a ribbon cable runs from the user interface controller to the system controller to convey user inputs. This design method requires multiple components, uses more power, and complicates the system design. Cypress has solved this problem with PSoC 3 CapSense Plus. Designers now have the ability to integrate both the system and user interface control in one chip, with the added benefit of SmartSense auto-tuning that speeds both system design and prototyping/production by optimizing parameters automatically during the design process.

“Designers recognize Cypress as the leader in capacitive touch solutions and also appreciate the power and flexibility of the PSoC 3 architecture,” said Gahan Richardson, vice president of PSoC platform products for Cypress. “We’ve made it easy for designers to combine these two marquis technologies to simplify the system design process in many applications.”

The Cypress PSoC 3 architecture, based on a high-performance 8-bit 8051 processor, has unique programmable analog and digital peripherals that enable capabilities such as motor control, intelligent power supply and battery management, LCD segment display, graphics control, as well as audio/voice processing, communication protocols, and much more. Its integrated 20-bit Delta Sigma ADC delivers better than 18-bit effective number of bits (ENOB) performance.

Cypress’s CapSense technology is the industry’s leading solution for capacitive buttons, sliders and switches. CapSense touch-sensing solutions have replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. More information is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

Availability and Photo
The PSoC 3 CapSense Plus solution is available today on any of Cypress’s PSoC 3 devices. The CY8CKIT-031 kit is also available now from Cypress’s web site and from its authorized distributors priced at US$115. A high-resolution photo of the new solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/PsoC3CapSensePlusPhoto.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and CapSense Express, SmartSense, CapSense Plus and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., October 6, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced the new CY8CMBR2016 device that enables designers to implement capacitive matrix button systems of up to 4 x 4 buttons without having to write firmware or learn new software tools. A matrix system is a row and column array of buttons typically found in keypad applications in a variety of industrial applications. This is the latest addition to the popular CapSense® Express™ capacitive touch-sensing controller line from Cypress that leverages Cypress’s revolutionary SmartSense™ Auto-tuning algorithm, which completely eliminates the requirement for system tuning and is the only solution that offers run-time environmental compensation.

The CY8CMBR2016 supports industry standard “keypad scan” and “truth table” host interface protocols, enabling customers to leverage their existing host processor firmware. The device also features multi-touch, perfect for matrix applications that require simultaneous button presses to enter various user interface modes. The CY8CMBR2016 operates over a 1.71 V to 5.5 V range making it ideal for a wide range of regulated and unregulated battery applications, and a supply current in run mode as low as 15 uA/button. It is targeted for applications such as security panels, card reader keypads, biometric scanner keypads, fire alarm control panels, thermostats, home appliances as well as any system requiring up to 16 individual CapSense buttons. More information is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

SmartSense Auto-tuning dynamically optimizes the capacitive baseline and detection threshold for each button. It adjusts for the optimal capacitance sensing range at power-up and during runtime as environmental conditions change, including temperature, humidity, and noise. Eliminating the need to tune is a significant advantage for large and small manufacturers alike, as it saves engineering time and yield loss that can occur with even slight variations in manufacturing tolerances. This savings is greatly multiplied for customers with a global factory footprint and supply chain. SmartSense Auto-tuning can eliminate the need for additional test steps required by competing solutions to address variations in PCBs and overlays.

“This new CapSense Express controller with SmartSense Auto-tuning technology extends the world’s easiest mechanical button replacement portfolio to matrix keypad applications,” said Dirk Franklin, business unit director for Cypress’s CapSense solutions. “The CY8CMBR2016 Matrix Keypad solution enables firmware, hardware, and mechanical engineers to implement capacitive sensing quickly and easily in their application.”

The device offers reliable operation in the harshest sensing conditions and ensures superior immunity to conducted and radiated noise. It also integrates a voltage regulator to address power supply noise as well as filters for any spurious noise.

Cypress’s accompanying design toolbox provides detailed resources to ensure optimal CapSense performance, and advanced system debug features allow customers to take designs directly to production for significantly shorter time-to-market.

Availability and Photo
The CY8CMBR2016 CapSense Express controller is currently in production in a 48-pad QFN package. For a high-resolution photo of a CY8CMBR2016 device, visit www.cypress.com/go/PR/photos/CY8CMBR2016.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solutions have replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. The portfolio ranges from the fixed-function CapSense Express controllers that streamline the transition to a robust touch-sensing interface, to the sophisticated CapSense Plus™ controllers based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture that can integrate a wide variety of Analog and Digital system blocks to reduce total chip count and system BOM cost. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and CapSense Express, SmartSense, CapSense Plus and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., September 26, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today introduced its new Gen4 family of TrueTouch® touchscreen controllers. Gen4 delivers industry-best performance in all categories, including the world's best Signal-to-Noise Ratio (SNR) and unparalleled performance in the presence of all noise sources—the biggest challenge faced by touchscreen designs.

Breakthrough Noise Elimination
The Gen4 family was designed from the ground up to deliver the world's highest SNR in real world applications. It is the first and only touchscreen IC that delivers built-in 10V Tx to drive the touch panel at 10V.  Because SNR is directly proportional to the voltage at which the panel is driven, this feature allows Cypress to offer nearly four times the SNR of the next closest competitor.  

The Gen4 family further raises the SNR bar as the first touchscreen device family to completely eliminate display noise in hardware. Gen4's patent-pending Display Armor™ offers unprecedented immunity to noise from every type of display, even low cost noisy displays such as ACVCOM LCDs. This allows touchscreen designers to make their products thinner by removing the air gap between the display and the sensor, and also less expensive by removing the shield layer in the sensor. Display Armor allows Gen4 to operate seamlessly with direct lamination, on-cell and in-cell stackups, regardless of the display chemistry.

“Customers have told us again and again that delivering flawless performance in the presence of noise is the biggest design hurdle they face," said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of Cypress's User Interface Business Unit. “Our Gen4 family with 10V Tx offers a quantum leap in performance in noise, including display noise that is often the most difficult to overcome. We are confident that competitive offerings will have a hard time meeting this performance."

“We forecast that the touchscreen module market will grow over 200% in the next several years, reaching $23 billion in 2017," said Dr. Jennifer Colegrove, Vice President, Emerging Display Technologies at DisplaySearch. "From our market research, it's apparent that projected capacitive touchscreen performance in the presence of electric noise is an important consideration. The controller ICs that could support add-on touch sensors as well as both on-cell and in-cell technologies with LCD displays will be very attractive."

World's Fastest and Lowest Power Touchscreen Controller
In addition to unmatched noise performance, the Gen4 product family offers the industry's fastest refresh rate of 400Hz, and has the unique ability to scan a capacitive touch panel at 1,000 Hz – both industry-best metrics. This level of performance is enabled by the 32-bit ARM® Cortex™ core at the heart of the Gen4 products. The Gen4 family enables unlimited touch performance, while providing the industry's best accuracy and linearity of 0.2 mm. Gen4 offers these features while boasting the world's lowest active power consumption of 2 mW, and a deep sleep mode that only draws 1.8 uW with wake-up via address match on the COM port.

Gen4 also offers more capacitive sensing IO than the competition, while still fitting into the world's smallest touchscreen packages. With up to 40 IO for mobile phone applications, Gen4 can support up to four standalone CapSense® buttons while still delivering ideal sensor pitch for up to 5-inch screens.

The Gen4 family also offers features that only TrueTouch can deliver, including waterproofing functionality that allows products to meet IP-67 standards; 1-mm stylus support for Asian character sets and accurate handwriting capture; and hover sensing to provide mouseover-like features and true fingernail or thick-glove support in mobile devices. Cypress's unique, patent-pending ability to switch dynamically between self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods in application enables these differentiating features. Cypress now has over 250 issued and pending patents pertaining to touchscreens. More information, including multiple videos, is available at touch.cypress.com.

“Our TrueTouch solution has been extremely successful based on its advanced feature set and ability to combat the multiple sources of noise in touch design," said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of Cypress's Consumer and Computation Division. “The Gen4 family extends our leadership in these areas and adds unmatched performance that our customers around the world have asked for. These customers are excited to develop the next generation of touchscreens using this technology."

Touchscreen Leadership
Cypress's touch sensing portfolio is the industry's broadest and most well adopted, encompassing both TrueTouch and CapSense® solutions. The Gen4 family is the latest in a string of touchscreen firsts from Cypress, the acknowledged industry leader in touch sensing. Examples include:

• Cypress was the first to deliver tracking of unlimited touches.
• Cypress was the first to deliver a true single-layer sensor solution for capacitive performance at resistive prices.
• The new Gen4 family, as well as prior generations, is offered in the world's smallest CSP packages for important space savings in handsets.
• Cypress is still the only company to offer the patent-pending self and mutual capacitance sensing on the same chip, enabling the development of advanced features like waterproofing, support for 1mm stylus, and hover without increased material or spatial costs.
• Designed to work with major mobile platforms, including Android and Windows® 8.

Availability
Samples of the new Gen4 controllers are now available to lead customers. Cypress expects to deliver volume production to lead customers by the end of 2011. The family will be available in a 44-pin 5x5 QFN with 31 sense I/Os, a 48-lead 6x6 QFN package with 35 sense I/Os, a 49-ball WLCSP package with 36 sense I/Os, and a 60-ball WLCSP package with 40 sense I/Os. The WLCSP (Wafer-Level Chip-Scale Packages) devices have a footprint of only 3.8 mm x 3.8 mm, the smallest touchscreen controllers available. More information, including multiple videos, is available at touch.cypress.com.

About TrueTouch
Cypress's TrueTouch technology provides the industry's best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), fastest refresh rates, lowest power consumption, and world's best accuracy and linearity. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress's legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at touch.cypress.com.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense, TrueTouch, and West Bridge are registered trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., August 3, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that it has posted five new videos about its industry-leading TrueTouch® touchscreen controller line on its website at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch. The videos showcase many of the unique touchscreen features available only from Cypress, including waterproofing, 1 mm stylus support, hover detection, and the Charger Armor™ feature that allows normal touchscreen performance in the presence of extremely noisy battery chargers.

Cypress is unique in its ability to dynamically switch between self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods. This capability enables TrueTouch controllers to deliver unparalleled multi-finger tracking capability and offer one-of-a-kind differentiating features such as hover, waterproofing and 1-mm stylus support on capacitive touchscreens.

The five new videos are:

• TrueTouch Overview – showcases the many different TrueTouch solutions and features.
• Charger Armor – shows how TrueTouch can deliver flawless performance in the presence of severe noise generated by low-cost, third-party chargers.
• Waterproofing – demonstrates normal touchscreen performance in the presence of wet fingers, water droplets and high humidity—conditions that can severely impede the performance of other touchscreen controllers.
• 1-mm Stylus Support – demonstrates highly responsive and accurate performance of a TrueTouch capacitive touchscreen with a 1-mm stylus, enabling manufacturers to replace resistive touchscreens with more attractive and durable capacitive screens.
• Hover Detection – shows how TrueTouch can sense a finger approaching, but not yet touching the screen. This capability allows the area near the finger to be magnified, making it easier for users to select their desired target. It can also be used for mouseover and highlighting functions.

“These videos are an excellent way to clearly show the differentiating features and superior performance of our TrueTouch solution,” said John Carey, director of TrueTouch marketing for Cypress. “Customers have told us that these features are important to them, and we intend to continue to develop new innovations that will change the touch landscape.”

About TrueTouch
Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), lowest power consumption and more. The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional TrueTouch information is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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SAN JOSE, Calif., July 20, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreens in the new F-07C, F-09C, and F-12C mobile phones, available from NTT DOCOMO. The hot new Fujitsu phones are each based on different operating systems and offer different features, but all rely on TrueTouch to implement brilliant, responsive touchscreens.

The F-07C is the world’s smallest Windows 7 handset.  It offers a 4-inch, 1024 x 600 display; enhanced security and a practical mobile-wallet function preinstalled. The F-09C takes advantage of Cypress’s unique waterproofing functionality to offer a waterproof body with a responsive, rotating 3.5 touchscreen that offers vibrant 3D experiences. It boasts a 16.3-megapixel camera capable of capturing full HD movies. The F-12C Android smartphone features a 3.7-inch bright color liquid display and voice-enhancement capability for extra-clear audio.

Cypress’s TrueTouch solution offers the world’s widest array of features, including 1-mm passive stylus support, proximity detection, waterproofing and the Charger Armor™ feature that enables mobile phones to operate in the presence of very noisy chargers. These features are made possible by the unique, patent-pending TrueTouch ability to execute both self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance measurements in the same device—and switch dynamically between the two in application.

“This announcement offers a clear example of why TrueTouch is the best touchscreen solution on the market,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “Fujitsu is one of the world’s leading innovators of mobile phone technologies, and TrueTouch has the flexibility, feature set and performance to deliver outstanding touchscreens for all of their needs. We’re pleased and proud to continue our strong relationship with Fujitsu.”

“Fujitsu is committed to providing ‘human-centric’ phones with exceptional visibility, usability, listenability, and user interfaces,” said Hitoshi Yoshizowa, vice president of Japan Sales for Cypress. “Our team of engineers in Japan is committed to working closely with Fujitsu to help them achieve these objectives.”

About TrueTouch

The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multifinger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most demanding touchscreen applications. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 6, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced that its leading TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers now offer the industry’s best waterproofing performance. Because water is conductive (like a finger touching the screen), capacitive touchscreens often suffer from false touches reported from water droplets, a thin film of water, or wet or sweaty fingers. Additionally, some of the leading smartphones today tend to “lock up” after water has been wiped off the screen. Manufacturers have worked around these problems with water repellant coatings and sensing technologies that can only operate accurately in the presence of small water droplets. Cypress has now enabled the next generation of technology improvements that allow TrueTouch customers to design high-performance touchscreens without expensive hydrophobic film or unintentional lock-ups inherent with other controllers.

Cypress’s TrueTouch devices deliver superior waterproofing due to their unique, patent-pending ability to execute both self-capacitance and mutual-capacitance measurements in the same device—and switch dynamically between the two in application. This capability, enabled by the flexible PSoC® architecture, is also at the heart of many of the other unique industry-leading features enabled by TrueTouch, including 1-mm stylus support and hover-sensing capability. .

“Waterproofing, stylus support and hover sensing are all examples of a real advantage of TrueTouch—the ability to enable advanced functions that help our customers to differentiate their products,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “Performance in the presence of water is very important, especially in humid climates with the active lifestyle of users of mobile phone, tablets, e-readers, digital cameras and other consumer applications. TrueTouch delivers a far superior waterproofing solution, which our customers are eager to implement.”

In addition to its unique features, Cypress’s TrueTouch technology provides the industry’s best noise immunity, highest signal to noise ratio (SNR), lowest power consumption and more. In addition, TrueTouch provides highly accurate 1mm stylus tracking accuracy better than 0.7 mm, along with 120Hz refresh rates for full handwriting recognition.

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multi-finger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most demanding touchscreen applications. Additional TrueTouch information is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.
 

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

The standard-sized capacitive touch panel is the center unit in the Suzuki MR Wagon. The panel provides 22 separate control functions and delivers smooth, easy-to-operate touch sensing operation along with sleek aesthetics. It contains Cypress’s CY8C21534 CapSense chip, an AEC-Q100 qualified device. AEC-Q100 specifications ensure that components meet rigorous Automotive Quality Systems standards. To learn more about CapSense, visit www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

“We’re excited to work with Clarion to deliver the stylish and functional touch panel in the Suzuki MR Wagon,” said Hassane El Khoury, automotive business unit director. “It’s indicative of the trend of leading automotive companies moving into the touch age.”

Cypress’s automotive-qualified CapSense devices are available in A grade (-40C to 85C), as well as E grade (-40C to 125C) which is not available in most competitive products. Automotive CapSense enables attractive, highly functional interfaces with improved durability over mechanical buttons and sliders. In addition, their industry-leading reliability, noise-immunity and water-resistance deliver superior performance in the harsh automotive operating environment. CapSense proximity sensing offers a detection range up to 25 cm, saving power by activating an interface only when needed. The devices are ideal for interior automotive applications such as audio, navigation, AC control and lighting control, as well as exterior applications such as trunk release and passive keyless-entry buttons. For more information on Cypress’s automotive portfolio, visit www.cypress.com/go/automotive or view a brochure at www.cypress.com/go/autobrochure. 

“Adding capacitive sensing improves both the form and function of automotive interiors,” said a Clarion spokesperson. “Cypress’s CapSense makes the process quick, easy and cost-effective.”

“The Japanese automotive industry is world-renown for its quality standards, and Cypress’s automotive grade CapSense offerings are well-suited for this market,” said Hitoshi Yoshizawa, vice president of Sales for Cypress in Japan. “We’re pleased to work with leaders such as Clarion and Suzuki in bringing new levels of user interface technology to car owners.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced more than 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, industrial, medical, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry-leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and Cypress Developer Community, PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 16, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled a breakthrough feature for its TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers that enables manufacturers of handsets, cameras, GPS systems and other mobile systems to offer the benefits of capacitive touchscreens at resistive touchscreen costs. The new feature available for Cypress’s CY8CTST241 (single-touch with one-finger gestures) and CY8CTST242 (adds limited two-finger gestures such as “pinch” and “zoom”) delivers high performance touchscreen accuracy and responsiveness with a true single-layer sensor panel, drastically reducing the cost of the most expensive component of the touchscreen.

Increasingly, capacitive touchscreens are viewed as a differentiator by buyers of new mobile devices. Capacitive advantages over resistive touchscreens include a more intuitive user experience, better transmissivity, lower power, increased reliability and better durability. Many lower-priced “feature phones” do not offer capacitive touchscreens today because of the cost. The new TrueTouch single-layer sensor opens up new “feature phones” and lower-cost smartphones to capacitive touchscreens, especially in major markets such as China and India.

Traditional capacitive touchscreens use a two-layer sensor to deliver the accuracy and linearity required for today’s user experience. Cypress has developed proprietary algorithms that interface with a true single-layer sensor with no bridges to deliver two-layer performance for an unparalleled combination of user experience and cost sensitivity. The removal of this second sensor layer can save mobile device manufacturers 30 percent or more on sensor costs, and is available today for glass and film. Even with only one sensor layer, the TrueTouch solution delivers accuracy better than 1.25 mm, excellent signal-to-noise ratios, fast response times (80Hz), and best-in-class active power of 3.6mW.

“This is a significant advancement in that it opens up a very large part of the market to capacitive touchscreens,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “All manufacturers realize the attractiveness of touchscreens, and Cypress is delivering the performance, durability and attractiveness of capacitive touchscreens at a significantly lower price. In fact, leading manufacturers are already beginning high-volume production with this solution.”

Availability
The CY8CTST241 and CY8CTST242 are available today for lead customers. More information is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch. A high-resolution photo is available at www.cypress.com/go/SingleLayerPhoto. 

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

Cypress’s CY8CTMA884 is the industry’s first single-chip tablet solution for touchscreens up to 11.6 inches. The high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family for smaller screens provides best-in-class scan times for true multi-finger touch and very high signal-to-noise ratio of more than 80:1 RMS. It also offers low power consumption (less than 1.3 mA low-power state current), best-in-class water rejection and wet-finger tracking, and more. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch and Charger Armor are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and PSoC Creator and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. Android and Open Handset Alliance are trademarks of Google Inc. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 23, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced that Acer Inc. has selected the TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution from Cypress to implement the multitouch touchscreen in the Acer Liquid MT smartphone. The flexible TrueTouch solution, based on the PSoC^® programmable system-on-chip architecture, delivered the most responsive and accurate touchscreen solution for the new phone. Acer also used TrueTouch controllers for its recently announced ICONIA tablet.

The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multifinger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most demanding touchscreen applications.

“Liquid MT sets a new standard for style and elegance in a smartphone, while delivering world-class performance and features” said Hawk Wu, Director of Product Management, Smart Handheld BU, Acer Inc. “The display is a critical part of the aesthetics and performance of the phone, and the Cypress TrueTouch solution delivered the accuracy and speed of touch sensing that users expect in a high performance product like Liquid MT.”

“We’re very pleased to continue our collaboration with Acer in the Liquid MT phone,” said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “Liquid MT, along with the ICONIA tablet, form an excellent showcase of the breadth and diversity of the Cypress TrueTouch portfolio. Being able to support our customers entire touch portfolio is a key part of our value to the market.”

Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., March 7, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that Fujitsu Limited has selected the TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution from Cypress to implement the touchscreen in the new docomo PRIME series F-01C mobile phone. The flexible TrueTouch solution, based on the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, delivered the most responsive and accurate touchscreen solution for Fujitsu, which docomo PRIME series users rated as very important in a recent customer satisfaction survey.

The docomo PRIME series F-01C is one of the world’s most advanced phones. It offers an impressive list of features, including 3.4-inch TFT color VGA display, a 13.2 megapixel camera with face detection and full HD video capability, and touchscreen writing technology, which allows users to write difficult-to-read Kanji characters simply by using their fingers directly on the screen. 

“We listened to our customers and focused on the performance of the touchscreen as a very important feature in the F-01C,” said a spokesperson for Fujitsu Limited. “The Cypress TrueTouch solution demonstrated the best response and tracking accuracy of any touchscreen solution we tested.”

“Touchscreen performance is becoming a key differentiator for consumers looking to select their next phone,” said Norm Taffe, executive vice president of Cypress’s Consumer and Computation Division. “We’re pleased to see TrueTouch selected by a leader such as Fujitsu based on its performance advantage.”

“The docomo PRIME series F-01C is an amazing phone with a range of outstanding features,” said Hitoshi Yoshizowa, vice president of Japan Sales for Cypress. “We are pleased to work with Fujitsu to implement this leading-edge product.”

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multifinger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most demanding touchscreen applications. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners. docomo PRIME series is a trademark or registered trademark of NTT DOCOMO, INC. in Japan and/or other countries.

SAN JOSE, Calif., February 14, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today unveiled a breakthrough feature for its TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers that enables touchscreens in handsets, cameras, GPS systems and other mobile systems to function seamlessly while connected to noisy chargers. Low-cost, third-party and after-market battery chargers emit large levels of common-mode noise that adversely affects touchscreen performance, often resulting in inaccurate touch readings or phantom touches. Cypress’s new Charger Armor™ feature allows TrueTouch touchscreens to operate normally in the presence of extreme AC noise.

The new feature, which is available in Cypress’s CY8CTMA3XX TrueTouch family, is unique in the industry, and solves a common problem that mobile device manufacturers are struggling to overcome. Low cost chargers lack critical noise suppression components, and can generate tens of volts (peak to peak) across the frequency spectrum of 1Hz to 1MHz. These voltage spikes can go directly into the touch panel during the presence of touch, severely impacting touch performance. As such, many of the mobile phone vendors have worked together to create EN 62684 and EN301489, standards which regulate the noise spectrum for battery chargers. While Cypress’s TrueTouch technology alone can suppress noise at the levels of these standards, Charger Armor allows Cypress to go beyond the standards to deliver truly revolutionary charger noise immunity to the market, enabling mobile devices to operate with the lowest-cost chargers.

“Many of our customers struggle to overcome charger noise,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “They are pleased to see an easy-to-implement, cost-effective solution to this problem. The flexibility of the PSoC-based TrueTouch architecture enables us to goes beyond simple frequency hopping and hardware filtering to address a wider range of noise issues than other touchscreen controllers. This is yet another example of Cypress’s leadership in providing innovative touchscreen solutions to problems such as LCD noise rejection, stylus support, water rejection, hover detection and others.”

Availability

The Charger Armor feature is available today, and Cypress expects customers to introduce systems with Charger Armor in the first half of 2011. A high-resolution photo depicting the feature is available at http://www.cypress.com/go/ChargerArmorPhoto.

About TrueTouch

The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multifinger touch and very high signal-to-noise ratio of more than 80:1 RMS, low power consumption (less that 1.3 mA low-power state current), best-in-class water rejection and wet-finger tracking, and more. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress

Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch and Charger Armor are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 27, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced availability of a new, high-performance single-chip TrueTouch™ solution for large multitouch touchscreens up to 11.6 inches. The new CY8CTMA884 family offers 60 sensing I/O channels with support for up to 884 nodes on the screen, more than any other single-chip solution. Additional sensing channels are essential for greater accuracy, linearity, support for smaller sized fingers and the ability to resolve multiple fingers close together.

The CY8CTMA884 offers all the benefits users have come to expect from TrueTouch devices, including 10-finger touch support, low power consumption, grip and palm rejection, high accuracy, and fast scan times.  All major tablet operating systems will be supported in this family of devices, and Cypress works closely with all the leading ITO sensor vendors, providing designers with flexibility, optimal performance and quality. Cypress’s large-screen TrueTouch platform expands its leadership position in small-screen portable electronics – such as handsets and portable navigation devices – into large-screen portable PC products and tablets. The devices are available today, with full production to lead customers expected by the end of the first quarter.

“The market for tablets continues to expand rapidly, and touchscreen performance is a critical differentiator for these products,” said Derek Richardson, Sr. Director of Cypress’s Large Touchscreen Business Unit. “Cypress is the first to offer a single-chip device to support this market.  This continues our leadership in both small and large form-factor touchscreen solutions, as multiple tier-one customer engagements bear out.”

Cypress offers the industry’s broadest portfolio of capacitive touchscreen solutions including single-touch, multitouch gesture and multitouch all-point offerings. Cypress was the first company to introduce multitouch all-point functionality, which can track 10 or more touches simultaneously. This multitouch all-point solution has been in mass production since 2008. TrueTouch is the industry’s most flexible touchscreen architecture, which allows designers to implement differentiated features and make last-minute design iterations without board changes. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s world-class noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 6, 2011 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NASDAQ: CY) today announced two new families of its leading TrueTouch™ touchscreen controllers that are targeted at stylus-enabled capacitive touchscreen devices. The CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11 families deliver the industry’s only solution for thin (as small as 1 mm) stylus use on capacitive touchscreens.

The traditional benefit of resistive touchscreens until now has been superior stylus support. Many Asian languages require enhanced character recognition for reliable text input, and therefore resistive technology continues to be used despite its poor durability and display quality. Cypress’s new TrueTouch controllers deliver a true “Resistive Stylus Replacement” (RSR) solution that matches the size and performance of resistive stylus implementations while providing the additional benefits of the capacitive touch solution.  No other touch suppliers are currently able to provide this functionality, which enables lower cost feature phones as well as smart phones in Asia to shift to superior capacitive touchscreens from resistive technology.

“Cypress is unique in our ability to dynamically switch between self-capacitive and mutual-capacitive sensing methods,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “This advantage allows us to be the only touchscreen controller supplier that can deliver Resistive Stylus Replacement, and positions us to introduce new, unique features going forward that our customers can use to differentiate their end products, especially for the Asian market. The touchscreen revolution is just getting started, and Cypress technology such as RSR will help to drive it forward.”

The new families provides all the traditional benefits of Cypress’s TrueTouch technology, including very high signal-to-noise ratio of more than 80:1 RMS, low power consumption (less that 1.3 mA low-power state current), best-in-class water rejection and wet-finger tracking, and more. In addition, they provide highly accurate stylus tracking accuracy better than 0.7 mm, along with 120Hz refresh rates for full handwriting recognition.

Availability
The CY8CTMA340-XXX-03 (two-finger support) and CY8CTMA340-XXX-11 (four-finger support) device families are both available today from Cypress. Qualified customers can contact Cypress for more information and to obtain samples.

About TrueTouch
The flexible TrueTouch solution allows customers to rapidly develop leading-edge solutions without having to buy turnkey modules. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments.

The next-generation high performance TMA300 multi-touch all-point family provides best-in-class scan times for true multifinger touch and superior signal-to-noise ratio for the most demanding touchscreen applications. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NASDAQ Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, PowerPSoC, CapSense and West Bridge are registered trademarks and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., August 11, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that the European Union’s trademark registry, the Office for Harmonization in the Internal Market (OHIM), ruled that Quantum Research Group acted “contrary to honest practices in commercial matters” by trying to “impede” Cypress’s attempt to register its CapSense® trademark in the EU. The OHIM declared Quantum’s registration of the CapSense mark in the EU invalid and ordered the company to bear the costs incurred by Cypress in its application to cancel Quantum’s trademark.

Until it was acquired last year by San Jose, Calif.-based Atmel Corp., Quantum was one of Cypress’s competitors in the market for capacitive touch-sensing products. CapSense is the brand name and trademark of Cypress’s industry-leading touch solution.

The OHIM further ruled that Quantum had prior knowledge of Cypress’s use of the CapSense product name in the UK and other countries when Quantum registered the mark in 2007. The OHIM described the Quantum tactic as a “blocking” registration.

“What Quantum/Atmel couldn’t win with their technology in the marketplace, they tried to obtain by unscrupulous means, manipulating the trademark system to prevent Cypress from using its own well-established commercial brand and superior intellectual property,” said Cypress President and CEO T.J. Rodgers. “We applaud the court for its decision, enforcing standards of common sense and fairness in the resolution of this case.”

Cypress is the industry’s touch-sensing leader; its CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch. The latest addition to Cypress’s touch-sensing portfolio, its TrueTouch™ solution, allows customers to design end products with LCD displays that incorporate gesture-based functions, including multi-touch gesture and multi-touch all-point solutions (the ability to track up to 10 touches simultaneously). TrueTouch works with industrial materials such as glass and plastics, giving customers maximum flexibility to create stylish, innovative industrial designs.

CapSense and TrueTouch are based on Cypress’s PSoC® programmable system-on-chip solution, a highly configurable architecture for embedded control design, integrating configurable analog and digital circuits with memory and an on-chip microcontroller. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks, and TrueTouch and CyFi are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

The HP Photosmart C4600 All-in-One Series is a versatile, intuitive printing system that makes at-home scanning, copying and printing simple and convenient. It prints up to 29 pages per minute, scans at up to 1200 x 2400 dpi and can deliver up to nine copies per minute. Its 1.45-inch LCD color graphics display is surrounded by the CapSense-enabled TouchSmart buttons.

“HP is the world leader in printing, and we’re very excited to be included in a great product such as the HP Photosmart C4600,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “CapSense offers superior specifications in a number of areas, including robust line noise immunity. That technical superiority is making CapSense the solution of choice for all types of systems, from mobile handsets and consumer electronics to white goods, PCs and printers.”

“As we move to make printing more intuitive, the Cypress CapSense solution helped us achieve some important goals with the HP C4600 All-in-One,” said Tuan Tran, vice president for Inkjet Consumer Solutions in the Imaging and Printing Group at HP. “The TouchSmart control panel provides our customers with an easy-to-use, stylish interface that allows them to browse, edit and print photos with the touch of a finger.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost.

The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. More information about PSoC products is available at www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks and CyFi and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 27, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that LG Electronics has selected Cypress’s CapSense™ touch-sensing solution to implement the stylish user interface in the new W53 and W54 LCD monitors. Using CapSense proximity-sensing, the monitors feature a clean, black bezel with control buttons that only illuminate when a user’s finger approaches. LG designers leveraged the flexibility of the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture to implement LED animation control, I2C sensitivity control and other functions beyond touch sensing - a capability called CapSense Plus™ - in the W53, W54 and other LCD monitors, as well as in the Scarlet II LCD TV line.

Cypress is the industry touch-sensing leader, with over 3 billion mechanical buttons replaced in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications and more. LG has selected the CapSense solution for mobile handsets, air cleaners and other products in addition to LCD monitors and televisions.

LG’s W53 and W54 SMART Monitor Series offer top picture quality while greatly reducing eyestrain during extended use. These monitors include an Auto Brightness feature that allows them to automatically optimize their brightness and other picture settings based on the ambient light in the room and the content being viewed. The W53 and W54 monitors are available in sizes from 18.5 to 27 inches.

“CapSense enables compelling touch-sensing interfaces, and the integration of proximity sensing contributes to the unique design of our LCD Monitors,” said JunHo Shin, engineer for Business Solutions R&D at LG. “Equally as important, CapSense delivers well-established quality from the industry leader in touch-sensing technology.”

“Winning an initial design with a leading provider of elegant consumer electronics such as LG points to the innovative touch-sensing interfaces the CapSense solution enables,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “Having LG select CapSense across multiple product lines is excellent validation of its flexibility, ease-of-use and reliability.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 3 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About LG Electronics, Inc.
LG Electronics, Inc. (KSE: 066570.KS) is a global leader and technology innovator in consumer electronics, home appliances and mobile communications, employing more than 82,000 people working in 114 operations including 82 subsidiaries around the world. With annual worldwide revenues exceeding $40 billion, LG is comprised of five business units - Home Entertainment, Home Appliance, Air Conditioning, Business Solutions and Mobile Communications. LG is the world’s leading producer of mobile handsets, flat panel TVs, air conditioners, front-loading washing machines, optical storage products, DVD players and home theater systems. For more information, please visit www.lge.com.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks and CapSense, CapSense Plus and CyFi are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 21, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that Acer has selected its PSoC® CapSense™ touch sensing solution for its striking new Aspire 4935G/4937G notebook computers in Asia and Aspire 8935/5935 notebooks in the Americas. Acer was able to use a single CapSense device in a tiny 32-QFN package to control the complete suite of media functions available on the new laptops. No competitive solutions were able to accommodate all the necessary functions in a single chip.

The programmable CapSense architecture enabled Acer to create the innovative media consoles and then customize them for separate markets and models using the same CapSense device. This saved design time and reduced inventory requirements. The single device manages seven buttons, a five-segment slider and 14 LEDs, all in a tiny 32-QFN package, allowing Acer to optimize board-space usage. The CapSense solution also allows designers to make last-minute changes, add features and control additional functions beyond the capacitive touch interface— capabilities that are not available from other capacitive sensing products.

“This is another important design win with a premier notebook provider,” said Dhwani Vyas, vice president of Cypress’s User Interface Business Unit. “Acer selected CapSense last year, and with this year’s more aggressive design objectives, CapSense again was the best solution. We continue to gain momentum as the user interface of choice for new computer models.”

“We are pleased that Cypress was able to integrate our aggressive feature list in a single chip with a very small package,” said Johnny Shyy, Director of Notebook Product Management, for Acer. “One of the factors that differentiate the Aspire notebooks from the competition is the intuitive and stylish user interface. Cypress’s CapSense solution is a major part of this success.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. They include up to 32 Kbytes of Flash memory, 2 Kbytes of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost.

The flexible PSoC resources allow designers to future-proof their products by enabling firmware-based changes during design, validation, production, and in the field. The unique PSoC flexibility shortens design cycle time and allows for late-breaking feature enhancements. All PSoC devices are also dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to morph internal resources on-the-fly, utilizing fewer components to perform a given task. More information about PSoC products is available at www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

About Acer
Since its founding in 1976, Acer has constantly pursued the goal of breaking the barriers between people and technology. Focused on marketing its brand-name IT products around the globe, Acer ranks as the world's No. 3 vendor for total PCs and No. 2 for notebooks, with the fastest growth among the top-five players. A profitable and sustainable Channel Business Model is instrumental to Acer's continued growth, while the successful mergers of Gateway and Packard Bell complete the company's global footprint by strengthening its presence in the U.S., and enhancing its strong position in Europe. The Acer Group employs more than 6,000 people worldwide. 2008 revenues reached US$16.65 billion.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks and CapSense, PSoC Designer and CyFi are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 18, 2010 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (Nasdaq: CY) today announced automotive qualification of its market-leading TrueTouch™ touchscreen and LIN capable CapSense® touch-sensing controllers. The devices, based on Cypress’s flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, meet AEC-Q100 standards, giving Cypress the industry’s broadest portfolio of automotive-qualified capacitive touch-sensing technology. The TrueTouch controllers mark the industry’s first automotive-qualified capacitive touchscreen solution. The CY8C2x345 CapSense controllers pair analog resources with automotive industry standard LIN communication support, making the devices the ideal system controllers to interface with analog and capacitive touch-sensor inputs, and to control backlight LEDs and haptic actuators while communicating over the LIN bus.

Cypress also announced that Grace Semiconductor in Shanghai, China has been qualified to fabricate automotive-grade CY8C2x345 CapSense controllers that adhere to the AEC-Q100 standard, ISO/TS 16949 quality management standard and Cypress’s Zero Defect manufacturing system.

“Grace has been an excellent partner for our Flex Fab strategy and has a proven track record in supplying automotive grade wafers to the industry at large,” said Sabbas Daniel, Executive Vice President of Quality at Cypress. “Cypress can now offer automotive devices with an additional wafer fabrication source to our Fab 4 facility in Minnesota, and both fabs adhere to our Zero Defect quality controls.”

The new automotive-qualified TrueTouch controllers – which are available in single-touch, multi-touch gesture and multi-touch all-point offerings – provide the ability to track multiple fingers simultaneously. The TrueTouch solutions are able to control screen sizes up to nine inches. They are designed for use in control panels, GPS and infotainment displays.

Cypress’s automotive-qualified CapSense devices enable attractive, highly functional interfaces with improved durability over mechanical buttons and sliders. In addition, their industry-leading reliability, noise-immunity and water-resistance deliver superior performance in the harsh automotive operating environment. CapSense proximity sensing offers a detection range up to 25 cm, saving power by activating an interface only when needed. The devices are ideal for interior automotive applications such as audio, navigation, AC control and lighting control, as well as exterior applications such as trunk release and passive keyless-entry buttons. For more information on Cypress’s automotive portfolio, visit www.cypress.com/go/automotive or view a brochure at www.cypress.com/go/autobrochure. 

“We are excited to bring Cypress’s market-leading capacitive touch interface portfolio to the automotive market with AEC-Q100 qualification of our devices,” said Hassane El-Khoury, Automotive Business Unit Manager at Cypress. “This is a result of our focus and investment in the automotive segment which has created a dedicated business unit and a quality organization with a zero defect mindset. Our CY8C21X34 CapSense devices are already in production with some of the world’s top automobile manufacturers. We are building upon this proven success with our newly qualified TrueTouch and LIN-capable CapSense devices that bring sleek human machine interfaces into next-generation vehicles.”

Cypress’s newly automotive qualified CapSense devices offer dual-channel scanning, delivering faster scan times for multiple IOs. These devices offer automotive industry standard LIN 2.0 and 2.1 communication support. Cypress offers two types of the automotive devices: A grade (-40C to 85C) and E grade (-40C to 125C). Available on-chip analog resources include a SAR ADC. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

Cypress’s TrueTouch solution is the industry’s most flexible touchscreen architecture, allowing designers to implement differentiated features and make last-minute design iterations without board changes. They have a choice of using touch sensors (glass or film) and LCDs from preferred partners, and can develop innovative mechanical designs ranging from flat to curved surfaces of varying thickness. In addition, TrueTouch devices offer Cypress’s legendary noise immunity with patented capacitive sensing technology that enables flawless operation in noisy RF and LCD environments. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/TrueTouch.

In addition to PSoC programmable system-on-chip devices, Cypress’s automotive portfolio also includes parallel and serial non-volatile SRAMs, asynchronous fast SRAMs, asynchronous micropower SRAMs, synchronous SRAMs, timing solutions, and USB hosts, hubs and peripherals.

Availability and Photo
The newly qualified CY8CTMG120 multi-touch gesture and CY8CTMA120 multi-touch all-point controllers are available for sampling in 56-pin QFN packages. The newly qualified CapSense products include the LIN-capable CY8C2x345 devices, available for sampling in A grade (-40C to 85C) in 28-pin SSOP packages with the 48-pin SSOP packages planned in Q3 2010. All products are expected to be in full production in Q3 2010. A high-resolution photo of automotive-qualified TrueTouch and CapSense devices is available at www.cypress.com/go/pr/AutoQualHMIphoto.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the Nasdaq Global Select Market under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PowerPSoC, PSoC, CapSense, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks, and TrueTouch is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., January 27, 2009 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its CapSense Express™ capacitive touch sensing solution for mechanical button and slider replacement has been recognized with an ECN Readers Choice Tech Award. The awards are selected by the readers of ECN Magazine for the best new products of the year. The CapSense Express solution, which was selected in the sensor category, enables designers to implement up to 10 buttons and/or sliders in as little as five minutes - with no coding. The PSoC Designer™ visual embedded system design tool and CapSense Express configuration tool allow designers to monitor and tune the performance of the buttons and sliders in real time using a graphical user interface, saving significant cycle time on designs. The ECN product review of the CapSense Express solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/pr/ecnaward."

Cypress is the worldwide leader in capacitive touch-sensing with the industry's broadest portfolio. Its PSoC®-based CapSense™ devices have implemented over 2.5 billion buttons, sliders and other touch sensing interfaces in systems worldwide. The CapSense portfolio offers unmatched flexibility and integration, addressing a broad range of designs from complex, feature-rich applications to simple button replacement. More information about the CapSense Express solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

"We are honored that the engineering community has selected CapSense Express for this award," said Babak Hedayati, senior vice president of worldwide marketing and applications for Cypress." "This is further validation of our position as the market leader in touch-sensing solutions." In a related release, Cypress announced that a recent report from industry analyst firm IMS Research cited Cypress as the industry leader for touch-sensing.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value." Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and CapSense Express, CapSense and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced an automatic tuning solution for its CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing devices. While existing solutions require engineers to perform time-consuming calibrations for up to 15 capacitive-sensing parameters, the new patent-pending SmartSense™ solution sets these automatically during the design process, significantly reducing development time. The solution dynamically optimizes the baseline and detection threshold and adjusts for the optimal capacitance range. The SmartSense capability greatly simplifies the replacement of mechanical buttons and sliders, allowing designers to create a single platform for multiple industrial designs without having to manually optimize performance for each design.

Engineers can simply incorporate the SmartSense firmware using the PSoC Designer™ embedded design tool and instantly develop touch-sensing interfaces that provide reliable operation over a wide range of capacitance values. This eliminates the need to retune a design each time the thickness or material used for the interface overlay changes, reducing time to market and saving development costs for customers. Furthermore, the solution ensures that manufacturing variations in PCBs, overlays and changes in noise environment are automatically calibrated out. For more information on the SmartSense CapSense solution visit www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

The firmware for the SmartSense capability is supported in Cypress’s new CY8C20xx6A CapSense devices with low-power 1.8V operation, which the company announced today in a related release (see “New Cypress CapSense® Device is Industry’s Lowest-Power, Configurable Touch-Sensing Controller”). Existing CY8C20xx6A customers can upgrade current projects to the SmartSense firmware module today in PSoC Designer 5.0 software with Service Pack 6 at www.cypress.com/go/designerpack6.

“The popularity of capacitive-sensing for user interfaces continues to rise rapidly,” said Bill Morelli, Director of the Mobile Technologies Group at technology analyst firm IMS Research. “The combination of Cypress’s easy-to-use solution with the new low-power CapSense offering will appeal to mobile handset makers as well as customers in a broad range of other markets.”

“Cypress has built a leadership position in touch-sensing by continually pushing the envelope of innovation, and our new SmartSense capability makes Cypress CapSense by far the market’s simplest solution for developing touch-sensing interfaces,” said Gokul Krishnan, director of marketing for CapSense User Interfaces at Cypress. “The SmartSense auto-tuning solution allows Cypress to address new segments, catering to new customers who may not be very familiar with capacitive sensing. At the same time, the solution helps existing customers respond to changes in market requirements and/or industrial design much more rapidly.”

The new CY8C20xx6A devices have up to 36 CapSense I/Os and 6 sliders, along with I2C, SPI and USB interfaces. The low-power devices provide best-in-class immunity to conducted and radiated noise and extended battery life in applications such as mobile handsets, Bluetooth headsets, multimedia buttons, LCD TVs and monitors, printers and more. CapSense devices also provide robust waterproofing and proximity sensing with industry-leading range. Leveraging the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, a single CapSense device can also manage functions such as haptics, intelligent sensing, LED control and more – a capability called CapSense Plus™.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

Availability
The SmartSense CapSense firmware module is available today with PSoC Designer 5.0 Service Pack 6 for use with the CY3280-20X66 CapSense Development Kit. Visit the Cypress eShop at www.cypress.com to order the kit.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY.* Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

* Beginning November 12, Cypress will trade on the NASDAQ under the same ticker symbol.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, PowerPSoC and West Bridge are registered trademarks and SmartSense, CapSense Plus, PSoC Designer and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 3, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY), the market leader in touch-sensing, today announced a new line of CapSense® capacitive touch-sensing devices with low-power 1.8V operation to extend battery life in handheld mobile consumer applications. The CY8C20xx6A devices replace mechanical buttons and sliders, offering attractive, functional interface options for designers. The new family also offers exceptional response time with the most precise scanning of any CapSense devices. With superior immunity to conducted and radiated noise, as well as robust waterproofing, the new devices also enable reliable touch-sensing operation in applications such as white goods, home appliances, printers, computers and TVs/monitors.

Additionally, the CY8C20xx6A family offers the new patent-pending SmartSense™ solution, which automatically calibrates capacitive-sensing parameters during the design process, cutting days of development time. Cypress announced the SmartSense solution today in a related release (Cypress’s New Auto-Tuning Smart Sense™ CapSense® Solution Revolutionizes Touch-Sensing Design). For more information on the CY8C20xx6A CapSense family visit www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

The CY8C20xx6A devices have up to 36 general-purpose I/Os (GPIOs) to implement multiple CapSense interfaces. Leveraging the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, a single new CapSense device can also manage functions such as motor control, intelligent sensing, LED control and more – a capability called CapSense Plus™. Additionally, the new devices include a full-speed USB interface. The easy-to-use CapSense devices allow customers to bring products to market quickly. The CY8C20xx6A device line is available in multiple configurations and packages, including a small form factor 3x3x0.6-mm 16-pin QFN.

“Robust immunity to noise and water has helped the CapSense solution build a strong leadership position in mobile consumer and wall-plugged applications,” said Gokul Krishnan, director of marketing for the User Interface Business Unit at Cypress. “The 1.8V operation of the new CY8C20xx6A devices significantly boosts the CapSense advantage for battery-powered electronics as we extend our leadership position in the touch-sensing market.”

The new CY8C20xx6A CapSense devices are supported by the CY3280-20X66 CapSense Development Kit, which includes a development board with ports for the following Plug-in Modules:
• CY3280-SLM – Linear Slider Module
• CY3280-SRM – Radial Slider Module
• CY3280-TPM – Trackpad Module
• CY3280-BSM – Simple Button Module
• CY3280-BMM – Matrixed Button Module
• CY3280-BBM – Breadboard Module.
Each package option of the new low-power devices is also supported by a CY3250-20xx6 ICE Pod Kit that includes emulator pods and feet, enabling a designer to perform system-level debugging.

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced 3.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

PSoC -- Because Change Happens
PSoC devices employ a highly configurable system-on-chip architecture for embedded control design, offering a flash-based equivalent of a field-programmable ASIC without lead-time or NRE penalties. PSoC devices integrate configurable analog and digital circuits, controlled by an on-chip microcontroller, providing both enhanced design revision capability and component count savings. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions saving customers design time, board space and power consumption while improving system quality and reducing system cost. More information about PSoC products is available at www.cypress.com/psoc and free online training is at www.cypress.com/psoctraining.

Availability and Photo
The CY8C20xx6A CapSense devices are currently in production. They are available in multiple configurations, and come in 16-, 24- 32- and 48-pin QFN packages and a 48-pin SSOP package. The CY3280-20X66 CapSense Development Kit, the CY3280-XXX Plug-in Modules, and the CY3250-20xx6 ICE Pod Kits are all currently available from the Cypress eShop at www.cypress.com. For a high-resolution photo of a CY8C20xx6A PSoC device, visit www.cypress.com/go/PR/photos/CY8C20xx6.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the flagship PSoC® programmable system-on-chip families and derivatives such as PowerPSoC® solutions for high-voltage and LED lighting applications, CapSense® touch sensing and TrueTouch™ solutions for touchscreens. Cypress is the world leader in USB controllers, including the high-performance West Bridge® solution that enhances connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress is also a leader in high-performance memories and programmable timing devices. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, mobile handsets, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial and military. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY.* Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

* Beginning November 12, Cypress will trade on the NASDAQ under the same ticker symbol.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, CapSense, PSoC, PowerPSoC and West Bridge are registered trademarks and SmartSense, CapSense Plus, S8, PSoC Designer and TrueTouch are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 21, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC® CapSense™ solution was selected to implement the elegant touch-sensing interface in Indesit Company’s Hotpoint-Ariston Aqualtis LCD line of washing machines.

The CapSense solution provides superior water-resistance. It also delivers noise immunity to the interference in white goods caused by large motors, extreme temperatures and other conditions. CapSense is flexible enough to deal with the unique system requirements of various types of white goods. For example, Indesit has also designed the solution into its line of oven products.

Cypress is the industry touch-sensing leader, with over 2.5 billion mechanical buttons replaced in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications and more. A single CapSense device replaces 13 mechanical buttons on the interface in the Aqualtis LCD line.

“We selected CapSense for its flexibility as well as for its durability and performance given the harsh operating environment that washing machines face,” said Davide Aloj, Electronic Development Visual Design Manager at Indesit.  “Having previously designed CapSense into our oven products, we are well aware of the stylish interfaces it enables for home appliances.”

“Indesit’s popular washing machines and ovens demonstrate CapSense’s reliable sensing operation in challenging conditions and the design flexibility of the PSoC architecture,” said Gokul Krishnan, business unit director for Cypress’s CapSense products. “Multiple design wins with a leading customer such as Indesit validate Cypress’s position as the touch-sensing interface leader.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense touch-sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Indesit
Indesit Company is Europe’s second largest manufacturer of household appliances by market share and the world’s fifth. Founded in 1975 by the current chairman Vittorio Merloni and listed on the Milan stock exchange since 1987, the Group posted sales of over €3.4 billion in 2007, having turned out around 16 million appliances. Indesit, Hotpoint-Ariston and Scholtès are the Group’s main brands. Indesit Company operates through 17 production facilities and 24 commercial branches worldwide and employs over 17,000 people.
 
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and CapSense and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 13, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC®-based CapSense Plus™ solution has been selected to control the touch-sensing buttons in the new AWOE Premium Collection line of washing machines from Whirlpool. The flexible solution offers leading noise immunity and water-resistance to deliver uninterrupted operation in the harsh sensing conditions prevalent in household appliances.

Cypress is the industry touch-sensing leader, with over 2.5 billion mechanical buttons replaced in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications and more. Engineers can take advantage of PSoC flexibility to implement functions beyond CapSense - a capability called CapSense Plus.

The Whirlpool AWOE Premium Collection washing machines feature 6th Sense technology, which recognizes the size of a load and automatically adjusts resources to ensure optimal performance, saving up to 30% on time, water and energy. The CapSense Plus capability specifically controls the 6th Sense indicator lighting on the main display.

The durable, user-friendly interface in the Whirlpool line employs one CapSense Plus device to implement 14 buttons and drive LEDs in the rotary dial control. A second device in the control display powers eight buttons, LED backlighting with dimming functionality and a buzzer.

“We wanted an intuitive, durable control panel for the Premium Collection line that was also attractive to end-users,” said Giorgio Zambon, project manager at Whirlpool. “Cypress’s CapSense Plus solution delivered a smart user interface and simplified the design process by controlling multiple functions beyond the touch-sensing interface.”

“Whirlpool is recognized as a worldwide leader in home appliances with diverse products that provide an excellent proving-ground for the flexibility of our CapSense Plus solution,” said Gokul Krishnan, business unit director for Cypress’s CapSense products. “The durability and water resistance of the CapSense solution and the compelling user-interface designs it enables are ideal for white goods, as well as consumer electronics, computation, and automotive applications.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Whirlpool Brand Laundry
With annual sales of approximately $18 billion and more than 73,000 employees, Whirlpool Corporation is the world's leading manufacturer and marketer of major home appliances. Recognizing the average American family does about seven loads of laundry each week, Whirlpool brand is committed to providing forward-thinking laundry appliances that match the lifestyles of all consumers. Brought to United States in 2001, the innovative Duet® Fabric Care system continues to be America’s best-selling front load laundry pair, washing 16 pairs of jeans in a single load* while using half the water and energy of traditional top-loaders. Further continuing its commitment to innovation, the brand introduced the Duet steam dryer; a first-of-its-kind laundry appliance that relaxes wrinkles and removes odors from fabrics in just minutes. No other laundry brand has fewer repairs, according to a leading consumer magazine; and no other brand sells more laundry products worldwide. For additional information regarding Whirlpool brand laundry please visit www.whirlpool.com. Information about the company can be found at www.whirlpoolcorp.com. (* Various sizes.)
 
About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and CapSense, CapSense Plus and PSoC Designer are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., April 7, 2009 – Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC® CapSense™ touch sensing solution drives the control panel of the Wacom Bamboo™ tablet, the exciting new graphical input device. A single CapSense device drives the touch ring control.

The highly rated Bamboo tablet allows users to input handwritten text, drawings and notes into digital documents. It supports widescreen displays and has a textured work surface for a natural pen-on-paper feel. The four Express Keys offer quick access to user-defined shortcuts, and the finger-sensitive touch ring delivers easy scrolling and zooming.

Cypress is the worldwide leader in capacitive touch-sensing with the industry's broadest portfolio. Its PSoC-based CapSense™ devices have implemented over 2.5 billion buttons, sliders and other touch sensing interfaces in systems worldwide. The CapSense portfolio offers unmatched flexibility and integration, addressing a broad range of designs from complex, feature-rich applications to simple button replacement. More information about the CapSense Express solution is available at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

“The Cypress CapSense solution gave us the flexibility to implement a unique and iconic design element into our Bamboo pen tablets.” said Jens Krueger, Global Product Manager at Wacom. “The Touch Ring is an important feature of our product.”

“The Bamboo tablet is a great example of the innovative end products around the world that are employing the CapSense solution,” said Gokul Krishnan, director of Cypress’s CapSense Business Unit. “CapSense offers easy, fast design changes as well as unmatched integration for user interfaces in all types of systems.”

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring. Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/go/capsense.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks, and CapSense, PSoC Designer, and CyFi are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., December 18, 2008 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) announced today that the 2008 report "Touchscreen & Input Technologies for Mobile Handsets" from IMS Research in Austin, Texas cited Cypress as the industry leader for touch-sensing. IMS reports that Cypress has "an estimated 2.5 billion touch sensors in mobile handsets, automobiles, computers, white goods, and consumer electronics." The report goes further, saying "IMS Research believes that Cypress continues to serve as the market leader for touch sensors".

The report also highlighted Cypress's push into multi-touch touchscreen, noting that "[a] variety of factors are driving the evolution of input technologies for mobile handsets. The most significant factor is the increasing need of users to have a better way to navigate with the advanced graphical user interface of newer handsets." Cypress's TrueTouch™ touchscreen solution lets users to make simple, intuitive single and multi-touch gestures like tapping an application to open, panning through photo albums, scrolling down an e-mail, and rotating and pinching pictures. Unlike other solutions, the TrueTouch solution is also capable of multi-touch all-point touchscreen functionality, meaning that up to 10 simultaneous touches on the screen can be tracked independently. This capability provides touchscreen designers with the most freedom to create new and creative interfaces for mobile handsets, portable media players, GPS systems and other products. With the TrueTouch solution, Cypress's "expansion into the touchscreen market," IMS writes, "is expected to help Cypress maintain that presence" as a market leader.

"Cypress is pleased to be the partner of choice for the makers of the world's most advanced devices. These products do more and more-and the CapSense and TrueTouch solutions are helping make the human-device interaction easier as complexity increases," said Chris Seams, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing for Cypress. "And in a time of widespread cost-cutting, we are proud to be offering programmable products that save our customers money and time both during development and production."

About CapSense
Cypress's CapSense™ Touch-Sensing solution has replaced 2.5 billion mechanical buttons in mobile handsets, laptops, consumer electronics, white goods, automotive applications, and virtually any system that has a mechanical button or switch, making Cypress the industry touch-sensing leader. The CapSense portfolio, the industry's broadest and most integrated, enhances industrial design and reliability with the most noise-immune and water tolerant capacitive touch-sensing interfaces, including proximity sensing where direct touch is not required. CapSense proximity sensing, with its industry leading detection range up to 25 cm, provides power savings by activating an interface only when needed while further enhancing industrial designs by only exposing interfaces when necessary. Based on the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture and the PSoC Designer™ Embedded-System Design Tool, users complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" and real-time sensor tuning and monitoring.
Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/capsense.

About TrueTouch
Cypress's TrueTouch touchscreen solution is based on projected capacitive touchscreen technology, offering numerous benefits over touchscreens based on resistive technology." These advantages include optical clarity, durability, reliability and cost-effective implementation of multi-touch features. The TrueTouch family, based on the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip architecture, is the industry's broadest touchscreen offering, including single-touch, multi-touch gesture, and multi-touch all-point solutions. Because of the flexible and programmable PSoC-based TrueTouch architecture, customers can also choose to work with a wide variety of touchscreen vendors and/or LCD module vendors to create their designs. Other touchscreen solutions are not programmable and require designers to implement a fixed solution with limited materials choices. The TrueTouch solution also enables designers to integrate additional functions such as driving LEDs, backlight control and I/O expansion. These functions, in conjunction with flexible communication options (I2C and SPI), allow for unparalleled system integration for touchscreen systems. Additional information about the TrueTouch solution is available at www.cypress.com/TrueTouch.

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value." Cypress offerings include the PSoC® programmable system-on-chip, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity technologies ranging from its CyFi™ Low-Power RF solution, to West Bridge® and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, and industrial. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC, West Bridge and EZ-USB are registered trademarks, and CapSense, CapSense Plus, TrueTouch, PowerPSoC, EZ-Color, PrISM and CyFi are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., November 6, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) announced today that the 2007 report, "The Evolution of Cellular Tactical Input," from IMS Research (Austin, Texas) cited Cypress as the industry leader for capacitive sensing in cellular handsets with more than 70 percent market share. Cypress has shipped over 40 million PSoC® CapSense™ devices into mobile phones from across the globe in less than two years, and continues to be designed into new models.

The CapSense solution offers mobile handset and other handheld device manufacturers advantages that are not available with other capacitive sensing products. The unique, reconfigurable PSoC architecture provides unmatched flexibility, enabling last-minute adjustments for new features and functions without having to do major circuit-board layout adjustments. In addition, Cypress's CapSensePLUS feature lets designers perform additional functions, such as LED control, motor control, power management and more with the same device used for capacitive sensing. This integration saves board space, manufacturing resources, power consumption and inventory requirements. These benefits also apply to end-products in all other markets.

"The CapSense solution has been a major part of the success of the PSoC family, and handsets are particularly well-suited to capacitive sensing," said Chris Seams, executive vice president of Sales and Marketing for Cypress. "It's also gratifying to note that we are seeing significant traction in areas outside of handsets as well."

"Cypress was one of the first companies to recognize and target mobile handsets for capacitive sensing," said Bill Morelli, mobile technologies analyst at IMS Research. "In our 2007 report on cellular tactile input, Cypress is noted as the clear leader in capacitive touch solutions for this market."

About CapSense
A single CapSense device can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with a simple, touch-sensitive interface. CapSense-based "button" and "slider" controls are more reliable than their mechanical counterparts because they are not prone to the environmental wear-and-tear that affects exposed buttons and switches. Cypress has garnered hundreds of CapSense design wins worldwide in applications that include mobile handsets, portable media players, white goods, computers, printers and automotive, among others.

Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for front-panel display and media control applications. Increased durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of designs. With Cypress's CapSense interface, a finger on the interface forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors, which work with the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's presence into various system control functions. The sensor itself is only a copper pad on the PCB, not an actual component.  All of the circuitry for controlling the sensor is inside the PSoC device.

Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous advantages over capacitive sensing products built around modules and sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD displays), in addition to capacitive sensing. The PSoC CapSense solution also delivers benefits such as easy communications using either I2C, SPI or USB interfaces, the ability to implement both trackpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the same device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the flash-based PSoC architecture. In addition, users can complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" within Cypress's PSoC Designer™ 4.4 Integrated Design Environment (IDE), and experience real-time sensor tuning and monitoring with PSoC Express™ visual embedded system design tool.  Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/capsense."

About the PSoC Family
PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption. Customers can save as much as $10 in system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements to provide analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.  PSoC devices include up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Designers can achieve far greater than 100 percent utilization of the die, in many cases, by reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at different times.  Learn more about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at www.cypress.com/psoctraining."

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo, PSoC and EZ-USB are registered trademarks, and Programmable System-on-Chip, PSoC Designer, WirelessUSB and West Bridge are trademarks of Cypress Semiconductor Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., May 9, 2007 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that its PSoC® CapSense enables the touch sensing interface inside multiple HP Compaq Notebook PC models. The Cypress CapSense solution not only provides the interface for a smooth, glitch-free user experience, but it also controls LED indicator lights on the notebooks, saving board space and reducing costs.

"We are pleased to provide the CapSense solution to HP, a world leader in notebook computers," said Carl Brasek, business unit director for Cypress's CapSense products. "This usage model highlights one of the CapSense customer benefits - the ability to perform additional functions on top of capacitive sensing."

"Given HP's focus on delivering easy-to-use and reliable notebook PCs to our business customers, HP is pleased to integrate the CapSense solution, which provides an excellent user experience and is less prone to every day wear and tear than exposed buttons," said Carol Hess-Nickels, director of worldwide business notebook marketing in the Personal Systems Group at HP. "In addition, the CapSense solution enhances the sleek design and superb functionality we're providing to customers."

About CapSense
A single CapSense device can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with a simple, touch-sensitive interface. CapSense-based "button" and "slider" controls are more reliable than their mechanical counterparts because they are not prone to the environmental wear-and-tear that affects exposed buttons and switches. Cypress has garnered well over 100 CapSense design wins worldwide in applications that include mobile handsets, portable media players, white goods, computers, printers and automotive, among others.

Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for front-panel display and media control applications. Increased durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of designs. With Cypress's CapSense interface, a finger on the interface forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors, which work with the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's presence into various system control functions. The sensor itself is only a copper pad on the PCB, not an actual component.  All of the circuitry for controlling the sensor is inside the PSoC device.

Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous advantages over capacitive sensing products built around modules and sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD displays), in addition to capacitive sensing. The PSoC CapSense solution also delivers benefits such as easy communications using either I2C, SPI or USB interfaces, the ability to implement both trackpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the same device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the flash-based PSoC architecture. In addition, users can complete CapSense designs quickly and easily using pre-configured and verified "user modules" within Cypress's PSoC Designer™ 4.4 Integrated Design Environment (IDE). Learn more about CapSense online at www.cypress.com/capsense."

About the PSoC Family
PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements to provide analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs. The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.  PSoC devices include up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Designers can achieve far greater than 100 percent utilization of the die, in many cases, by reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at different times.  Learn more about PSoC products at www.cypress.com/psoc and receive free online training at www.cypress.com/psoctraining."

About Cypress
Cypress delivers high-performance, mixed-signal, programmable solutions that provide customers with rapid time-to-market and exceptional system value. Cypress offerings include the PSoC® Programmable System-on-Chip™, USB controllers, general-purpose programmable clocks and memories. Cypress also offers wired and wireless connectivity solutions ranging from its WirelessUSB™ radio system-on-chip, to West Bridge™ and EZ-USB® FX2LP controllers that enhance connectivity and performance in multimedia handsets. Cypress serves numerous markets including consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar power. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit Cypress online at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and PSoC Designer is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., July 19, 2006 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) today announced that it has been awarded its 100th design win for the CapSense capacitive touch sensing interface, based on the popular PSoC® (Programmable System-on-Chip™) architecture. A single CapSense device can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with simple, touch-sensitive controls. CapSense-based "button" and slider controls are more reliable than their mechanical counterparts because they are not prone to the environmental wear-and-tear that affects exposed buttons and switches.

The 100 design wins have been achieved since Cypress introduced the CapSense solution in May 2005. CapSense designs have been secured across the globe in a variety of applications, including:

· Consumer segment - mobile handsets, portable media players, digital still cameras, personal GPS units, cordless phones, set-top boxes, and Digital Video Broadcast (DVB)
· Computation segment - notebook computers, peripheral devices and monitors
· White goods segment - microwave and conventional ovens, cook-tops, washing machines and air cleaners
· Automotive segment - front dashboard control

"CapSense is a high impact solution for our customers," said George Saul, vice president of Cypress's PSoC Business Unit. "Our customers report faster design cycles with fewer components, more flexibility, and market-differentiating styling options, all for an economical price."

About CapSense
Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for front-panel display and media control applications. Increased durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of designs. With Cypress's CapSense capacitive touch sensor interface, a finger on the interface forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors, which work with the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's position into various system control functions.

Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous advantages over capacitive touch sensor products built around modules and sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD displays), in addition to touch sensing. The PSoC CapSense solution also delivers benefits such as easy serial communications using either I2C or SPI interfaces, the ability to implement both trackpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the same device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the flash-based PSoC architecture.

About the PSoC Family
PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements to provide analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs.  The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.  PSoC devices include up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications.

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Designers can achieve far greater than 100 percent utilization of the die, in many cases, by reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at different times.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and "Programmable System-on-Chip" is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.

SAN JOSE, Calif., June 1, 2006 - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. (NYSE: CY) has launched a new website for its CapSense capacitive sensing solutions based on the popular Programmable System-on-Chip™ (PSoC®) mixed-signal array. The new site offers detailed information about the PSoC products that support the CapSense solution, design tools and demonstration kits. It also provides a plethora of design support materials, such as downloadable software, application notes, technical articles, example projects, and seminar and training dates.  The CapSense website can be viewed at www.cypress.com/CapSense.

PSoC CapSense replaces mechanical buttons, switches, sliders, and proximity detectors in systems from cell phones and cars to notebooks, PCs, white goods and industrial applications." A single chip can enable reliable CapSense-based interfaces with a smart appearance and robust operation while resulting in fast time to market as well as BOM and cost reduction.

"Cypress's PSoC CapSense website is an ideal resource for a designer looking to upgrade the interface for almost any product with a sleek, sturdy capacitive touch sensing solution," said Steve Gerber, marketing director of Cypress's PSoC Business Unit. "Consumer demand for products with capacitive sensing interfaces is growing tremendously and this website can help put designers on the fast track to getting their differentiated products to market."

About CapSense
Capacitive sensing is fast becoming the solution of choice for front-panel display and media control applications. Increased durability, decreased bill of materials (BOM) and a clean, minimalist appearance make this elegant interface attractive to a wide range of designs. With Cypress's CapSense capacitive sensor interface, a finger on the interface forms an electrical connection with embedded sensors, which work with the PSoC device to translate data about the finger's position into various system control functions. A single PSoC device can replace dozens of mechanical switches and controls with simple, touch-sensitive controls.

Cypress's CapSense solution offers system designers numerous advantages in capacitive sensor products built around modules and sub-assemblies, including increased flexibility, reduced board space and lower cost. Because of the unique PSoC architecture, designers can easily integrate multiple functions (e.g., LED drivers and LCD displays), in addition to capacitive sensing. The PSoC CapSense solution also delivers benefits such as easy serial communications using either I2C, SPI, or USB interfaces, the ability to implement both touchpad (x-y matrix) and linear slider applications with the same device, and the ability to make quick design changes using the flash-based PSoC architecture.

About the PSoC Family
PSoC devices are configurable mixed signal arrays that integrate a fast 8-bit microcontroller with many peripheral functions typically found in an embedded design. PSoC devices provide the advantages of an ASIC without the ASIC NRE or turn-around time. A single PSoC device can integrate as many as 100 peripheral functions with a microcontroller, saving customers design time, board space and power consumption. Customers can save from 5 cents to as much as $10 in system costs. Easy to use development tools enable designers to select configurable library elements to provide analog functions such as amplifiers, ADCs, DACs, filters and comparators and digital functions such as timers, counters, PWMs, SPI and UARTs.  The PSoC family's analog features include rail-to-rail inputs, programmable gain amplifiers and up to 14-bit ADCs with exceptionally low noise, input leakage and voltage offset.  PSoC devices include up to 32KB of Flash memory, 2KB of SRAM, an 8x8 multiplier with 32-bit accumulator, power and sleep monitoring circuits, and hardware I2C communications. 

All PSoC devices are dynamically reconfigurable, enabling designers to create new system functions on-the-fly. Designers can achieve more than 120 percent utilization of the die in many cases, by reconfiguring the same silicon for different functions at different times.

About Cypress
Cypress solutions perform: consumer, computation, data communications, automotive, industrial, and solar. Leveraging proprietary silicon processes, Cypress's product portfolio includes a broad selection of wired and wireless USB devices, CMOS image sensors, timing solutions, specialty memories, high-bandwidth synchronous and micropower memory products, optical solutions and reconfigurable mixed-signal arrays. Cypress trades on the NYSE under the ticker symbol CY. Visit us at www.cypress.com.

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Cypress, the Cypress logo and PSoC are registered trademarks and Programmable System-on-Chip, is a trademark of Cypress Semiconductor Corp. All other trademarks are property of their respective owners.