Infineon will acquire Cypress Semiconductors for nearly $10 Billion dollars. This is the latest merger or acquisition in the semiconductor industry, and these mergers and acquisitions show no sign of stopping anytime soon.
Infineon’s market currently consists mostly of products aimed at the automotive market and power management and control. Cypress, likewise, has a wide portfolio of automotive electronics, from the guts of instrument clusters to the brains of infotainment systems. The automotive electronics industry is going gangbusters right now, and companies in the market are flush with cash; Infineon acquiring Cypress allows both companies to focus their R&D to develop products for the same market.
As with all mergers and acquisitions, there is the question of what may be lost, or what may go out of production. Cypress is most famous for their PSOC microcontrollers, but for now those uCs, and their CapSense capability, seem safe. Cypress is also noteworthy for manufacturing old-school memories, but again it looks like you’ll still be able to buy these years down the line; in any event, Alliance memory is still around stuffing DRAMs in DIPs.
This acquisition of Cypress by Infineon is one of the largest in recent memory. Apple recently bought a $600 Million stake in Dialog, and Microchip acquired Microsemi for $8.35 Billion. Tesla bought Maxwell Technologies for a mere $218 Million. This deal between Infineon and Cypress puts the company in the upper echelon of recent mergers and acquisitions.
YAY …. Big lover of Infineum products and tech support here. Main MCU used in my agrirobot project here: https://hackaday.io/project/90057-autonomous-agri-robot-control-system. Nobody seems to know about their 3 core MCU based on Arduino Mega footprint?
“microcontroller based on Arduino mega footprint”
What does that mean?
I guess an Ifx microcontroller dev board (tricore), which has the same footprint of the Mega board
I am working with TC275/TC387 every day and I don’t stop wondering how powerful these MCUs are.
Arg. They don’t seem all that keen on selling a bunch of them:
https://www.mouser.co.uk/ProductDetail/Infineon-Technologies/KITAURIXTC275ARDSBTOBO1?qs=%2Fha2pyFaduijxefh3xJkkpKFz8RxSZyuzSkdmGJ9nw5JnTXvxqeu4Og81MZer25p&utm_source=octopart&utm_medium=aggregator&utm_campaign=726-KITAURIXTC275ARD&utm_content=Infineon
That’s because they’ve not been popular, so there’s not much stock floating around. Robot projecteers tend to prefer ROS, for some reason that escapes me. They were not even been featured on Hackaday, as far as I know. But they are an amazing piece of kit, specially for robotics. I managed to drive 4+ motor sets simultaneously without any dedicated library.
$172.25 I can see why.
Don’t forget to divide that by 3 (3 cores) !!!
Quickly, buy all the $10 PSoC 5 development kits and download their documentation.
Is Infineon aware that Cypress has abandoned all of its 8 to 32 bit devices still being sold.
Try to download a simple assembler or IDE………………Nothing.
The Cypress response. Was
……….”befor we can help what is an IDE?”
Cypress claims only the following companies can provide the software assistance.
Arrow Electronics
Digi-Key Corporation
Future Electronics
Newark/element14
Mouser Electronics
Verical
RS Components
Is that insane or what?
This is where Psoc is going to end.
Nooooooooooo ! Why ?????????????
By the year 2050, which company will be the only Semiconductor Company ?