Cypress Semiconductor
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Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor company known for its memory, microcontroller, and connectivity solutions used in consumer, automotive, and industrial electronics.
All labels observed (1)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Cypress Semiconductor canonical | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T9250030 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
NED1
Entity disambiguation (via context triple)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cypress Semiconductor Context triple: [Infineon Technologies, acquired, Cypress Semiconductor]
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A.
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was a major American semiconductor company known for its analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, later acquired by Texas Instruments.
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B.
Xicor
Xicor was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing non-volatile memory and analog integrated circuits.
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C.
Microsemi
Microsemi was a semiconductor company known for providing high-reliability, defense, aerospace, and communications solutions before being acquired by Microchip Technology.
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D.
Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is a leading American semiconductor company known for its microcontrollers, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits used in a wide range of embedded control applications.
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E.
ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor is a leading global supplier of power and analog semiconductor solutions used in automotive, industrial, and other high-performance electronic applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
NED2
Entity disambiguation (via description)
gpt-5-mini-2025-08-07
Target entity: Cypress Semiconductor Target entity description: Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor company known for its memory, microcontroller, and connectivity solutions used in consumer, automotive, and industrial electronics.
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A.
National Semiconductor
National Semiconductor was a major American semiconductor company known for its analog and mixed-signal integrated circuits, later acquired by Texas Instruments.
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B.
Xicor
Xicor was a semiconductor company best known for designing and manufacturing non-volatile memory and analog integrated circuits.
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C.
Microsemi
Microsemi was a semiconductor company known for providing high-reliability, defense, aerospace, and communications solutions before being acquired by Microchip Technology.
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D.
Microchip Technology
Microchip Technology is a leading American semiconductor company known for its microcontrollers, mixed-signal, analog, and Flash-IP integrated circuits used in a wide range of embedded control applications.
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E.
ON Semiconductor
ON Semiconductor is a leading global supplier of power and analog semiconductor solutions used in automotive, industrial, and other high-performance electronic applications.
- F. None of above. chosen
Statements (47)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf | semiconductor company ⓘ |
| acquiredBy | Infineon Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| acquisitionAnnouncementDate | 2019-06 ⓘ |
| acquisitionCompletionDate | 2020-04 ⓘ |
| CEO |
Hassane El-Khoury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
T. J. Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| country |
United States of America
ⓘ
surface form:
United States
|
| foundedBy | T. J. Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundedIn | California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| foundingDate | 1982 ⓘ |
| hasSubsidiary | Spansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| headquartersLocation | San Jose, California NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| industry | semiconductors ⓘ |
| keyPerson |
Hassane El-Khoury
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
T. J. Rodgers NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| locatedInTimeZone | Pacific Time Zone ⓘ |
| mergedWith | Spansion NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| mergerCompletionDate | 2015 ⓘ |
| notableBrand |
EZ-USB
NERFINISHED
ⓘ
HyperBus NERFINISHED ⓘ HyperFlash NERFINISHED ⓘ PSoC NERFINISHED ⓘ TrueTouch NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| parentCompany | Infineon Technologies NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| product |
Bluetooth chips
ⓘ
NOR flash memory ⓘ PSoC microcontrollers NERFINISHED ⓘ SRAM ⓘ USB controllers ⓘ Wi-Fi chips ⓘ automotive semiconductors ⓘ embedded system solutions ⓘ microcontrollers ⓘ static random-access memory ⓘ touchscreen controllers ⓘ wireless connectivity solutions ⓘ |
| servesIndustry |
automotive
ⓘ
consumer electronics ⓘ industrial electronics ⓘ |
| specializesIn |
connectivity solutions
ⓘ
embedded systems ⓘ memory products ⓘ microcontrollers ⓘ |
| status | acquired ⓘ |
| stockExchange | NASDAQ ⓘ |
| tickerSymbol | CY NERFINISHED ⓘ |
| website | https://www.cypress.com/ ⓘ |
How these facts were elicited
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Instruction
You are a knowledge base construction expert. Given a subject entity and a description of it, return factual statements that you know for the subject as a JSON list of dictionaries(triples), where keys must be "subject", "predicate" and "object". The number of facts may be very high, between 25 to 50 or more, for very popular subjects. For less popular subjects, the number of facts can be very low, like 5 or 10. # Requirements - If you don't know the subject at all, return an empty list. - If the subject is not a named entity, return an empty list. - Include at least one triple where predicate is "instanceOf". - Do not get too wordy. - Separate several objects into multiple triples with one object.
Input
Subject: Cypress Semiconductor Description of subject: Cypress Semiconductor was an American semiconductor company known for its memory, microcontroller, and connectivity solutions used in consumer, automotive, and industrial electronics.
Referenced by (1)
Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.