target price 35p three months and to double end of 2006 and treble end of 2007
only floated dec 05

cannot post full article for obvious reasons but good news flow expected in
next few weeks/months

got in today they have good recent record of 20-30% in few months and give regular updates and exposure

certianly one to watch and plenty of buyers today

Have a look through the history of the management here. Nice story but is this at the third attempt ? What is so different this time ?

dont know you tell me I'm new to this company and got in on the basis of the whatshot tip no more no less

What does it do Gordon?.

cheers GF. NB, big support for this one on the finfoex site.

microchip technology tools

From

http://www.cyantechnology.com/

eCOGCOGToolsEnvironmental PolicyTCP⁄IP NetworksMultiple UARTsOperating SystemAsset TrackerCamera and JPEGShare Price & RNSInvestor AlertRegistrar & FAQSImportant DatesAdvisersInvestor ContactsPress PackEurope MapAsia MapNorth AmericaCorporate NewsCyan in the NewsEventsEnglish Press ReleasesFrench Press ReleasesGerman Press ReleasesItalian Press ReleasesSpanish Press ReleasesWelcomeCompany HistoryBoardTechnologyStrategyGovernanceDocumentationApplication NotesTechnical NotesSoftware DownloadsFAQForumContact SupportProduct RegistrationApplications EngineerField Applications Sales Applications Finding CyanMailing CyanE-MailWebsite CommentsSite MapPrivacy PolicyCyanIDEDevelopment KitEvaluation KitParallel Port DongleUSB DongleAsix Programming SolutionProduction Programming SoftwareuIP StackCMX TCP⁄IP StackPicOSChronOSEuropean DistributorsAsia DistributorsArchives HomeNewsCorporate NewsCyan in the NewsEventsEnglish Press ReleasesFrench Press ReleasesGerman Press ReleasesItalian Press ReleasesSpanish Press ReleasesArchives Cyan announces Intention to Float on AIM - 14th November, 2005
Cyan Holdings plc, the fabless semiconductor company specialising in the development of low powered, configurable microcontroller chips, today announces its intention to seek admission of its ordinary shares to trading on the Alternative Investment Market ("AIM") of the London Stock Exchange. Collins Stewart is acting as Nominated Adviser and Broker to Cyan. Dealings are expected to commence on AIM on 5th December 2005.

Cyan is an electronics company which specialises in the design, sale and support of a range of 16-bit and 32-bit general-purpose low power microcontroller chips ("MCUs"). These chips are integral components used in nearly all electronic products, ranging from mobile phones and washing machines to toys, televisions and motorcars. Consumer entertainment markets require more powerful processors and are usually based on 32-bit chips which Cyan is developing to serve this market segment. Cyan is based in Cambridge, UK and, since it operates in a worldwide market for microcontrollers, has identified Europe and South East Asia as the largest markets for its products. As such, Cyan opened a sales and technical support office in Hong Kong in May 2005.

Originally Cyan was a spin out from Cambridge Consultants Limited to use its 16-bit core, the same core used in CSRs first Bluetooth chips. Since Cyan was founded in 2002, it has achieved 75 design wins for its initial eCOG1k product and is expanding the range of the patent-protected eCOG1 family.


The Company has introduced design integration support software, CyanIDE, to support the Companys entire range of current and future microcontrollers. The software makes chip integration into customers products vastly more simple, quick, reliable and hence less expensive while dramatically reducing development time. Although the Directors believe Cyans range of MCUs to be competitive, they especially regard the Companys proprietary design integration software, CyanIDE, to be a key factor in the Companys success. Cyan created CyanIDE to avoid relying on standard tools from third party suppliers.

Paul Johnson, CEO of Cyan, said: "Cyan has pioneered the idea of an integrated development of software support tools with the design of the microprocessor unit. We have developed a software development tool, CyanIDE that automatically writes the difficult but necessary configuration software, perfectly matched to the product range it supports.

"Cyan is a fabless semiconductor company meaning that chip manufacture, assembly, testing and shipping is completely outsourced, eliminating the need for manufacturing capital costs. Therefore we can enjoy very low capital intensity."

Paul Johnson, the founding director and CEO of Cyan, gained a Ph.D in Electronics from Bradford University. His industrial career started at Cambridge Consultants Limited where he primarily worked on high-speed analogue to digital converters, sonar and imaging systems. Paul went on to found one of the first Cambridge companies involved in personal computing in the early 1980s.

Dr John Read will join Cyan Technology as non-executive upon admission to AIM. John brings a wealth of experience to Cyan, with a career spanning 30 years in the semiconductor industry. He began as Director of Engineering in 1973 with US-based Honeywell Solid State Centre and has since held senior positions at Texas Instruments, STC Telecommunications, Marconi and latterly as Joint President at GPS Plessey Semiconductors.

Professor Mike Hughes, Chairman of Cyan, previously of GEC and CEO of Midlands Electricity PLC, commented on Johns appointment: "I am extremely pleased to welcome Dr John Read to the Board. He has considerable experience in the semiconductor industry, start-ups and PLCs which will be invaluable to our strategy. When I joined I was very impressed in general with the expertise and capability of Paul Johnsons team."

Commenting on the decision to float on AIM, Paul Johnson, added: "This is an extremely exciting opportunity for the Company. Having achieved a number of design wins for the first product, the flotation on AIM should provide Cyan with the opportunity to expand its product range and exploit the high-growth semiconductor market in which it operates. We believe our combination of ultra low power flexible microcontrollers and software development toolkit sets Cyan apart."



For further information:

Cyan Holdings plc

Paul Johnson, Chief Executive Officer
Tel: +44 (0) 1954 234 400

www.cyantechnology.com

Collins Stewart Limited

Stephen Keys, Corporate Finance
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7523 8312

www.collins-stewart.com


Media enquiries business and finance press:

Abchurch Communications

Heather Salmond / Tania Wild
heather.salmond@abchurch-group.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 7398 7700
www.abchurch-group.com


Media enquiries technology and trade:

EML

Andrew Shephard
cyan@eml.com
Tel: +44 (0) 20 8408 8000
www.eml.com



Photography
Photographs of Paul Johnson (Chief Executive Officer) are available from cyan@eml.com.

Thanks for that Gordon.

cheers GF.

i hear some news due 14/2 ? but some good volume today
expect the tip to be recycled via uk analyst soon??

some momentume now has it had a metion anywhere ????

some momentume now has it had a mention anywhere ????

some momentume now has it had a mention anywhere ????

from uk-analyst.com plenty of buyers today but not much price movement?

Buy Cyan Holdings at 25.25p
Says Luke Heron of Watshot.com
Based near Cambridge, Cyan was established 3 years ago by CEO Dr Paul Johnson to snap up the intellectual property, licences and agreements necessary to go ahead with the manufacture, distribution, sale and support of the company's eCOG1 product. In January 2004, Cyan raised circa 1 million pounds of new funding, which was later followed by a fundraising netting a further 2.2 million pounds in May of this year and a further 3.25 million pounds last month at 22p. Concurrently, the company appointed various distributors, began product evaluation sales and won its first design wins. What lies ahead now is a potentially massive ramp up in sales and revenues.

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So what, prey tell....

Cyan is a fabless semiconductor company that designs, sells and supports a range of 16-bit and 32-bit microcontroller chips. Alongside these chips, the company has developed a revolutionary software tool for chip integration into customer's products, which itself allows a vastly more simple, quick and reliable alternative to existing systems, preventing the need for weeks in development time & cost. On a conservative basis, a well-informed brokers note prepared by Collins Stewart for institutional investors has forecast that Cyan could capture 1% of the microcontroller market by 2010.

Before we all get lost in the myriad of technological detail in my latest pearls, some basics are required. Microcontroller chips are general-purpose digital semiconductors used in almost all electronic products. A microcontroller is essentially a computeron-a-chip used to control electronic devices and contains all the memory and I/O interfaces it needs on board. They are the vast majority of all processor chips sold.




The group's first product, the 16-bit eCOG1k microcontroller, has already been successfully completed, has a patented core and has a number of customers in production. Crucially, and this is where it begins to get really interesting, an independent report produced by Innotec found that eCOG chips offered more memory, processed faster and offered better real-world power consumption than the market-leading Texas Instruments range. Now make no mistake, just because Cyan has a kick-arse product, doesn't necessarily mean it is going to kick Texas Instrument's butt, however it is a great start. The seductive power that Cyan has over its potential customer base is its revolutionary CyanIDE development software, which ingeniously, is offered free of charge with their chips. The CyanIDE product essentially allows the customer's software engineer the ability to configure the microcontroller graphically by drag and drop and click in as little as a few hours. This is an attractive option for a process that with any other product would take several weeks of programming and development time.

You can obviously understand that with a product of this nature, distribution is key. Thankfully, whilst the buffoons on the management team may be useless when it comes to conversing with top tipsters; it pains me to admit that these chaps know their market and their product. Furthermore, I am pleased to say that Cyan is currently focussing its efforts on technical distributors to market their products. This gives the company a scalable cost base whilst also allowing it access to a very wide range of potential customers, reducing time to market and a broader spread of risk.

Cyan is a business that has secured a remarkable 75 design wins, a level of success which is simply unmatched by any other company at its stage of development. In short, it is virtually unprecedented for a semiconductor company at such an early stage of development. You don't need to take it from your resident tipster however, the Innotec Experts Report also states "At this stage of development of the company, this is a very good order book."

As the manufacturing, assembly, testing and shipping of the chips are each completely outsourced, the requirement for manufacturing fixed assets and stock is virtually eliminated. This allows Cyan to enjoy very low capital insensity. As the route to market is via technical distributors, as is the case in the electronic devices market, Cyan does not have to develop its own extensive sales network, but yet it still gains access to the world's key electronic-product design & manufacturing companies.

Management

Indeed, the company clearly benefits from a team with extensive knowledge and experience of the entire electronics value chain. Both CEO Paul Johnson and the sales director, Paul Barwick have been involved for many years with research, development, manufacture, sales, marketing and distribution in this sector. Having founded one of the initial Cambridge companies involved in personal computing in the early 1980s, Johnson is a man that is used to moving ahead of the pack. He is very highly regarded indeed in his industry and is widely regarded as a prolific innovator with commercial awareness. Paul Berwick, is the perfect choice for sales director at Cyan, having worked in the electronics sector all his working life. Berwick has considerable experience in building up sales having led teams at both Jermyn Electronics and latterly at Hawke Components. Former GEC technical and managing director, Prof Michael Hughes heads the board as chairman.

Numbers and a conclusion......

By 2008, and on conservative assumptions, I have been presented with a highly plausible case that would see EBIT of 6.5 million pounds, producing earnings of 7.4p per share. For a company that has netted the number of design wins as this one, this shouldn't prove a problem. Neither Collins Stewart nor Innotec seems to think so in any case. Anyway, in the meantime, we can expect losses somewhere of the order of 2.588 million pounds on sales of 1.856 million pounds. Collins Stewart is going for a profit in 2007 of 613,000 pounds at the pre-tax level on revenues of 10.58 million pounds. Quite some jump, but at this stage of the company's growth story, it is eminently achievable.

The numbers are not solely what will take this share higher however. Indeed, if they were, I fear it might be quite some time until we got some action. Neither is the scoop published a few weeks ago regarding the major product launch next month, though that will clearly help in my opinion. It is a combination of its technologically advanced status, its high quality product that cuts weeks of development time down to hours, it is the inevitable design wins that will make their way onto the newswire, it is the potential for new products in the pipeline and also the very potential that lies in an undiscovered and undervalued situation in a sexy sector that I believe will explode in interest over the coming months. The total microcontroller market in 2005 is thought to have been worth some $13.7 billion, up 12% on 2004. Indeed, the market has a long history of growth having grown at a compound rate of 9% a year since 1990!.

I concede that the marketplace for microcontrollers is very competitive and that Cyan's products will compete directly with some of Texas Instruments, as well as those of the other major players' products. However, Cyan's product offers more flash memory, processes faster and has lower real power consumption versus competing microcontrollers so are likely to be able to compete successfully in market niches where high performance and high-specification are critical. It is Cyan's technological advantage and the very fact that this cannot remain hidden from investors indefinitely that will excite the punters. Ultimately, in the very long term, whether Cyan becomes a true, big player is irrelevant as it is the dream of it in the months that follow that will dictate the direction. At this moment in time, there is no risk of this dream dying with a kick-arse set of technologies, cash of some 4.6 million pounds and an unrivalled number of design wins for a company of its size.

At 25.25p, the stance is "buy".

Key Data

EPIC: CYAN
Price: 24.5 - 26p
Market : AIM

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still not reacting to the split of buys/sells fell as though talking to myself ??

results out 21st fingers crossed

The Business

SEMICONDUCTOR designer Cyan Holdings is an undiscovered and undervalued gem at 16p as it looks to replicate the success of giants such as Texas Instruments, CSR and Wolfson with its market-leading microcontroller chips.

KD.

AIM Investor: Buy Cyan Holdings at 17p

KD.

This stock received much excitement when launched and for some there was a peak to 30p. However, if you ignore this, the trend has been gently south from launch.
So I think "Confident" may be right..."What's different this time...?" - and it seems, not a lot.
A couple of points mentioned here should not go unnoticed:
1) -"...They are fabless therefore less capital..." .is perfectly true....that's why Semiconductor firms use specialists...it is the Norn to be Fabless, IMHO.
Even die-testing equipment is very specialised.
2) "Market-leading" - well, blow me! So the whole Market is trying to catch Cyan in England? I don't think so, it's true that CYAN is specialising in "high-end" devices......but I doubt that Intel, Motorola, or AMD will lose much sleep.....and in the (small) controller market, Microchip is still making a good living,,,,,,,so this has to be seen as a bit of ramping/Advertising Puff.....
I'm not aying they aren't good devices, Oh No! - they are quite good enough to meet the requirements of their customers - but that's the problem - there are too few customers and this means turnover is likely to be "lumpy"....perfectly OK in boom times but slightly risky about now...er, IMHO.
Their "Tools idea" is great, but in reality no-one will invest in designing a chip-product that is different from software they use - hence CYAN "has to" offer some cross-development aides......good idea sure.....but one from necescity.
The CYAN sp says it all.......I wait for the bottom to be declared.......who thinks it will not reach 10p (in a steady Market)? .... I guess that below that figure there will be plenty of interest.......but this is not Wolfson, who were particularly lucky to be at the start of iPods (for example)....good businesses make their "luck" - don't they? Is CYAN into a potential Boom-Time consumer product - someone here may know......but it's unlikely I guess.
Feeling a bit blue?

Oh Dear, oh dear...has my comment resulted in a c.20% fall in just two days.....?
I doubt the Market gives a stuff what I think esp as I have no CYAN stock. My comments were IMHO having considered the investment a few weeks ago. Certainly "now" at 11p(buy) it looks a lot less risky - BUT and this is a big BUT - the Trades show more Sells - but not enough to cause -20% (So is there some Stock News comming? OR has one of their customers begun a cut-back which may filter through......however, that may be the case CYAN strike me as being straight and would have made an Ann already.
Time will Tell.
But don't think I caused it; if my timing looks a tad suspicious....er, sorry guys.

they are in the high volume no margin game with a 16 bit Harvard architecture that some of the big boys have had for years...looks like a good short on any strenght to me

;-0

bag a poo