Cypress ships 1 billionth PSoC chip!

- 1 billionth unit delivered for GE medical application

Cypress Korea (Branch Manager Lim Young-do www.cypress.com) announced the shipment of its 1 billionth PSoC programmable system-on-chip product, which has been experiencing rapid growth.

The 1 billionth unit was shipped to GE (General Electric) for medical applications that utilize PSoC's programmable analog and digital resources for various functions.

PSoC is the world's unique programmable analog and digital embedded design platform that combines analog and digital peripheral controllers with memory on a single piece of silicon while maximizing designer flexibility.

PSoC's rapid growth ranks among the fastest in embedded systems history and continues to accelerate. Cypress began commercial product shipment in 2002 and shipped its 100 millionth unit in 2006. Additionally, the company surpassed 250 million units in 2007, 500 million units in 2009, and 750 million units in Q4 2010. The 1 billionth unit was scheduled to ship on July 19 at 11:22 AM Pacific Time.

"PSoC represents one of the greatest successes in Cypress history, driving productive change across all aspects of Cypress. This announcement is an important example of how our startup strategy works, demonstrating how superior ideas become increasingly concrete through small but highly motivated startup teams supported by Cypress's well-established infrastructure. Cypress has delivered a new paradigm in embedded design that provides flexibility and integration unlike anything else. This announcement is very exciting because we are only just getting started. The PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 product families are currently experiencing rapid growth and opening new markets and applications. Beyond this, we are already developing new PSoC product families," said T.J. Rodgers, President and CEO of Cypress.

PSoC's unique programmable analog and digital resources integrated with microcontrollers provide system designers with many significant advantages including faster time-to-market, ability to respond to changes, integration, power savings, reduced component count due to inventory reduction, and supplier consolidation. All these advantages are important factors in PSoC's growth story. The PSoC architecture also forms the core of other products offered by Cypress, such as TrueTouch™ touch screen solutions, CapSense™ touch-sensing, and PowerPSoC™ controllers for LED lighting.

PSoC 3 and PSoC 5 product families, which are based on 32-bit ARM Cortex™-M3, provide superior integration and flexibility in 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit applications, dramatically expanding the applications and markets that PSoC products can address, such as industrial products, automotive, and medical.

Among numerous PSoC customers worldwide are market-leading companies such as Samsung, LG, HP, Cisco, Motorola, IBM, Honeywell, Lenovo, Haier, Acer, HTC, Fujitsu, Hitachi, Nintendo, Sharp, Suzuki, Philips, BMW, and Gaggia.

PSoC devices are at the core of a very wide range of applications including home appliances, mobile phones/smartphones, set-top box platforms, electric toothbrushes, air purifiers, electric bicycles, high-definition televisions, digital cameras, hobby remote-control helicopters, computer mice, printers and other PC peripherals, health and fitness equipment, automotive audio systems, satellite radio, engine control units, medical devices, lighting, electric baby carriages, oscilloscopes, and MP3 players.