Cypress announced the addition of UMC as one of its primary foundry partners. According to the letter of intent, Cypress will use UMC's advanced processes for its next-generation SRAM products. This is the first time that Cypress has chosen an external foundry for manufacturing its flagship SRAM products. Cypress expects to tape out its first 65-nm SRAM product at UMC later this year. In addition to SRAMs, Cypress intends to use UMC for the foundry manufacturing of its S8TM 0.13-micron embedded flash technology and two future generations of embedded flash technology to produce an array of Cypress products, including its PSoC programmable mixed-signal array and USB devices.