Industry | Semiconductors |
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Founded | 2003 |
Defunct | March 12, 2015 |
Fate | Purchased by Cypress Semiconductor |
Successor | Cypress Semiconductor, later acquired by Infineon |
Headquarters | Sunnyvale, California, United States |
Key people | John Kispert (CEO and Member of Spansion's Board of Directors) |
Products | Flash memory-based embedded systems |
Revenue | ~$1.3 billion USD (Annual 2013) |
Number of employees | ~3,700 (2014) |
Website | www |
Spansion Inc. was an American-based company that designed, developed, and manufactured flash memory, microcontrollers, mixed-signal and analog products, and system-on-chip (SoC) solutions.[1][2] The company had more than 3,700 employees in 2014 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. Spansion was a joint-venture between AMD and Fujitsu.[3]
In August 2013, Spansion closed the acquisition of the Microcontroller and Analog Business of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited.[4]
Spansion had more than 10,000 customers worldwide. Its products were used in the following markets: automotive electronics, home appliances, peripheral computing equipment, consumer equipment, industrial, and networking.[1]