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SAN JOSE - Cypress Semiconductor Corp. has unveiled plans for a new state-of-the-art chip design center in Hyderabad, India. The new site will complement Cypress's current Indian design center in Bangalore.
 
The new facility is expected to be operational by year-end.
 
Cypress currently operates 18 design centers in the US and in countries such as England, Ireland, Turkey and India. "The Hyderabad center will enable Cypress to tap into the city's enormous engineering talent pool," said Paul Keswick, senior vice president of Cypress's New Product Development (NPD) group. "We have successfully used that approach at international locations, such as India and Ireland, and at locations in proximity to major US universities."
 
Referring to a recent feature article in National Geographic magazine that described Hyderabad as the next Silicon Valley, Keswick said, "The Hyderabad site offers us the benefits of proximity to our Bangalore facility and to other, major, India-based hardware design and manufacturing companies, along with a fully developed utilities, transportation and communications infrastructure."
 
In addition to its design facilities, Cypress has two chip fabrication facilities in the US in Minnesota and Texas, and a state-of-the-art assembly and test plant near Cavite City in the Philippines.
 
Cypress' design facility in Bangalore currently has 116 employees working on designs for static random access memory (SRAM) chips, framers, clocks and control-communications devices.

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