Strong demand from the wireless sector has led Cypress Semiconductor Corp to forecast that first-quarter revenue will be higher than expected by analysts.
The San Jose, California-based company now predicts that revenue in its first quarter to March 28 will be about $250m, 39% up on the level a year earlier, and above analysts’ expectations of $243m.
Cypress said bookings remained strong in the first month of the quarter and positive momentum in the WAN market is continuing, driven by increased demand for network search engines, SRAMs, clocks and speciality memories.
It said wireless sales continue to be robust with a shift to higher-density SRAMs in the handset business. It also said rapid adoption of USB 2.0 products is helping to offset seasonal weakness in the computational and consumer segments.
In other news, NAI has released software set to check Microsoft patches.
Network Associates Inc said yesterday it has added a component to its McAfee ePolicy Orchestrator software that enables security administrators to check whether their Windows boxes are compliant with the latest security patches.
The new feature, System Compliance Profiler, scans computers running Microsoft software to look for files, registry keys and patch numbers. Scanning rules can be written by either the user or downloaded as templates from NAI.
An NAI spokesperson said that the company is now evaluating whether to add other components to ePO in future. She could not say whether these updates would address compliance in non-Microsoft platforms however.
The company said patch fingerprinting is also available to ensure that patches have not been spoofed or tampered with. The software can also output graphical compliance reports. It will start shipping February 16.
This article is based on material originally published by ComputerWire
