Cyan Technology was formed in 2002 as a spin-off from Cambridge Consultants Ltd (CCL). Its 16-bit microcontroller technology is the result of ten years of high performance low power semiconductor research within CCL and, as such, the company enjoys a competitive advantage as a result of its advanced product development. Cyan's multi-purpose flash microcontrollers offer significant advantages in ease-of-use, price, performance and low power consumption. Cyan's modern 16-bit product fills a very significant gap in the market, offering similar capability to 32-bit microcontrollers for embedded communications, but with considerably less development time and significantly less power consumption, thereby reducing system cost, increasing reliability and extending battery life. Use of Cyan's chips enables developers of internet-enabled devices and handheld instrumentation to produce goods with highly sophisticated functionality in much less development time.