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News Release from: Cypress Semiconductor
Edited by the Electronicstalk Editorial
Team on 03 May 2006
Quality system meets automotive
standards
Cypress Semiconductor has received ISO/TS16949:2002 certification for the automotive industry.
Cypress Semiconductor has received ISO/TS16949:2002 certification for the automotive industry In order to achieve certification, an extensive and demanding third party audit was performed across all shifts at Cypress facilities verifying robust business and quality systems
This article was originally published on Electronicstalk on 9 Jul 2008 at 8.00am (UK)
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Cypress adds this all-production site ISO/TS16949 certification to the all-production site ISO14001:2004 certification.
"The ISO/TS16949 certification attests our commitment to Cypress's zero defect quality principle, and reinforces our philosophy of establishing enduring business processes that link directly to customer requirements", said Sabbas Daniel, Executive Vice President of Quality.
"With its focus on process and quality planning, TS provides us with a framework to drive toward the ever higher standards of performance that our customers have come to expect from us".
"The ISO/TS16949 certification demonstrates the stringent process interactions Cypress has in place in order to drive zero-defect and on-time delivery performance to the automotive industry, as well as other customers", said David Zimpfer, Managing Director of Cypress's Automotive Business.
"Cypress automotive solutions, such as CapSense capacitive sensing interfaces, USB host/peripheral controllers, memory products, and image sensors, are designed to outperform the already high standards of the automotive industry".
"This certification confirms our commitment to the automotive market".
Cypress's assembly and test facility in Cavite, Philippines and its US wafer fabrication facilities in Bloomington, Minnesota, Round Rock, Texas, and San Jose are ISO/TS16949 certified.
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