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Infineon agrees $10bn deal to buy Cypress Semiconductor

03 June 2019 • 3 min read

Acquisition will make Infineon eighth largest semiconductor company in the world

Infineon has agreed a $10 billion deal to buy Cypress Semiconductor. Cypress is a memory chip maker specialising in NOR flash memories, F-RAM and SRAM Traveo microcontrollers, as well as softwar...

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