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Spansion: History, Products, Art & Technology

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. The company had more than 3,700 employees in 2014 and was headquartered in Sunnyvale, California. It was founded as the joint-venture FASL between AMD and Fujitsu…

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Spansion topic overview

The analysis highlights History, Products, Art and Technology as prominent areas in the source structure around Spansion.

Related topics
35
Source areas
5
Connected nodes
40
Extracted relationships
94
Concept neighborhoods
11
Bridge connections
40

What this topic covers Research coverage

Source areas are shown by the number of related topics found in each part of the analysis. Use smaller areas too: they can reveal specialized angles and content gaps.

Products · 15 topics
Overview · 7 topics
Financial · 6 topics
Manufacturing · 4 topics
History · 3 topics

Smaller areas are not necessarily less important. They contain fewer connections in this analysis and can be useful for finding specialized angles or coverage gaps.

Key facts & relationships

High-confidence facts extracted from structured source data. Use them as anchors for further research.

Founded
2003
Industry
Semiconductors
Headquarters
Sunnyvale, California, United States
Defunct
March 12, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-12)
Fate
Purchased by Cypress Semiconductor
Key people
John Kispert (CEO and Member of Spansion's Board of Directors)

Explore all related topics Closing gaps

Browse the complete topic structure, not only the most central items. Less prominent entities and concepts can reveal missing angles, specialized context and useful research gaps. Each item opens a new analysis centered on that subject.

Overview

History

Products

Manufacturing

Financial

Advanced semantic analysis

Deeper signals for content research, entity SEO and topical coverage. The plain-language headings explain what each technical view is useful for.

How Spansion connects Entity context

The extracted context around Spansion shows recurring relationship patterns in the source. For example, Spansion → After, AMD, CEO, December, FASL LLC, Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Limited, Fujitsu's, In, Japan's Fujitsu, John Kispert, June, Once AMD, Spansion LLC, Spansion's Another extracted example is Spansion → Analog Business, As, August, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, In April, In October, IP, Israel-based Saifun Semiconductors Ltd, March, Microcontroller, MirrorBit, NROM IP, The. Use these groups to spot repeated connection types before inspecting the individual relationships.

Spansion

Top relations

related to history · 14
Spansion → After, AMD, CEO, December, FASL LLC, Fujitsu AMD Semiconductor Limited, Fujitsu's, In, Japan's Fujitsu, John Kispert, June, Once AMD, Spansion LLC, Spansion's
related to Mergers and acquisitions · 13
Spansion → Analog Business, As, August, Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, In April, In October, IP, Israel-based Saifun Semiconductors Ltd, March, Microcontroller, MirrorBit, NROM IP, The
related to Emergence from Chapter 11 · 12
Spansion → After, April, Bankruptcy Court, Chapter, CODE, Delaware, District, Its, June, New York Stock Exchange, On May, The
related to Manufacturing · 11
Spansion → Austin, Bangkok, CAD, California, Fab, In Penang, Malaysia, Sunnyvale, Texas, Thailand, The
related to Executive pay controversy · 10
Spansion → CEO, Chapter, February, It, John Kispert, Kispert, Managers, March, The, With
related to Products · 7
Spansion → It, MirrorBit, NAND, NOR, Spansion's, Spansion's NOR, The Company's
related to External links · 5
Spansion → Companies, Francisco Bay Area, Historical, SEC, Spansion Official Website
related to Financial · 4
Spansion → At, GAAP, On, Q2
Defunct · 1
Spansion → March 12, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-12)
Fate · 1
Spansion → Purchased by Cypress Semiconductor

Important terminology

Use these terms to understand the vocabulary surrounding the topic, not as a checklist for keyword stuffing.

Important terminology

company flash memory products spansion's kispert 2009 employees million 11 semiconductor billion 2013 2014 fujitsu bankruptcy business mirrorbit based analog

Spansion relationships Subject–Predicate–Object triples

TTTA extracted 94 structured relationships around Spansion. Examples in this analysis include Spansion → Defunct → March 12, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-12) and Spansion → Fate → Purchased by Cypress Semiconductor. The table shows each extracted connection, where it came from and its confidence.

SubjectPredicateObjectConfidenceSrc
SpansionDefunctMarch 12, 2015; 11 years ago (2015-03-12)1.00infobox
SpansionFatePurchased by Cypress Semiconductor1.00infobox
SpansionFounded20031.00infobox
SpansionHeadquartersSunnyvale, California, United States1.00infobox
SpansionIndustrySemiconductors1.00infobox
SpansionKey peopleJohn Kispert (CEO and Member of Spansion's Board of Directors)1.00infobox
SpansionNumber of employees~3,700 (2014)1.00infobox
SpansionProductsFlash memory-based embedded systems1.00infobox
SpansionRevenue~$1.3 billion USD (Annual 2013)1.00infobox
SpansionSuccessorCypress Semiconductor, later acquired by Infineon1.00infobox
SpansionWebsitewww.spansion.com1.00infobox
automotiveinstance ofand utilize either traditional floating gate technology or its MirrorBit technology.Spansion's NOR and NAND offering was targeted at embedded applications0.80text

Related concept clusters Concept neighborhoods

The concept neighborhoods around Spansion bring nearby vocabulary together. In this analysis, examples include Business, Microcontroller and Bankruptcy. Use the clusters to find adjacent concepts and terminology that may deserve separate research.

  • flash memory
    • Memory
    • Based
    • Products
    • Spi
    • Mirrorbit
    • Spansion's
    • Amd
    • Spansion
    • Product
    • Technology
    • Founded
    • California
  • products
    • Company's
    • Technology
    • Based
    • Mirrorbit
    • Founded
    • Amd
    • California
    • Sunnyvale
    • Ceo
    • Chapter
    • Cypress
    • Fujitsu
  • sunnyvale, california
    • California
    • Sunnyvale
    • Employees
    • Founded
    • Amd
    • Ceo
    • Cypress
    • Fujitsu
    • Semiconductor
    • Billion
    • Kispert
    • Products
  • amd
    • Founded
    • Fujitsu
    • California
    • Sunnyvale
    • Ceo
    • Cypress
    • Flash
    • Semiconductor
    • Billion
    • Employees
    • Company
    • Kispert
  • cypress semiconductor
    • Semiconductor
    • Billion
    • Ceo
    • Founded
    • Sunnyvale
    • Fujitsu
    • Microcontroller
    • New
    • Business
    • Employees
    • Million
    • Kispert
  • Spansion
    • Business
    • Microcontroller
    • Bankruptcy
    • Million
    • Sunnyvale
    • Design
    • First
    • Product
    • Spi
    • Based
    • Spansion's
    • Technology
  • spansion
    • Business
    • Microcontroller
    • Bankruptcy
    • Million
    • Sunnyvale
    • Design
    • First
    • Product
    • Spi
    • Based
    • Spansion's
    • Technology
  • fujitsu
    • Microcontroller
    • Semiconductor
    • Business
    • Sunnyvale
    • Ceo
    • Cypress
    • Spansion
    • Billion
    • Million
    • Kispert
    • Products
    • Spansion's

Connections between topic areas Semantic bridges

For Spansion, one of the stronger structural bridges in this analysis connects Spansion with Products. Bridges highlight paths between different parts of the map and can reveal research angles that are easy to miss in a flat list.

Min side: 3
Spansion — Products · splits 25 ⟂ 16
Spansion — Overview · splits 33 ⟂ 8
Spansion — Financial · splits 34 ⟂ 7
Spansion — Manufacturing · splits 36 ⟂ 5
Spansion — History · splits 37 ⟂ 4

Map overview Semantic statistics

Spansion

Nodes41
Edges40
Triples94
Avg. degree1.95
Density0.04878
Components1

Source & methodology

TTTA analyzes the structure around Spansion to surface related topics, entities, relationships, concept neighborhoods and bridge connections. Use the map to explore areas such as History, Products, Art & Technology, including less central topics that may reveal useful research gaps. Automatically extracted connections are research leads rather than rewritten encyclopedia content.

Source: Wikipedia — Spansion · EN edition · Analysis: TopicsToTalkAbout

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