Ownership Submission
FORM 4
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UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549

STATEMENT OF CHANGES IN BENEFICIAL OWNERSHIP OF SECURITIES

Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Section 17(a) of the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935 or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
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(Print or Type Responses)
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person *
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP /DE/
  2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
RAMTRON INTERNATIONAL CORP [RMTR]
5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
__X__ Director __X__ 10% Owner
_____ Officer (give title below) _____ Other (specify below)
(Last)
(First)
(Middle)
198 CHAMPION COURT
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
10/10/2012
(Street)

SAN JOSE, CA 95134-1599
4. If Amendment, Date Original Filed(Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing(Check Applicable Line)
_X_ Form filed by One Reporting Person
___ Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
(City)
(State)
(Zip)
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1.Title of Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 3. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V Amount (A) or (D) Price
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share 10/10/2012   P   748 (1) A $ 3.1 24,958,998 I See Explanation of Responses (4) (5) (6)
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share 10/11/2012   P   361,354 (2) A $ 3.1 25,320,352 I See Explanation of Responses (4) (5) (6)
Common Stock, par value $0.01 per share 10/12/2012   P   284,899 (3) A $ 3.1 25,605,251 I See Explanation of Responses (4) (5) (6)

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Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security
(Instr. 3)
2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security 3. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year) 3A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year) 4. Transaction Code
(Instr. 8)
5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D)
(Instr. 3, 4, and 5)
6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date
(Month/Day/Year)
7. Title and Amount of Underlying Securities
(Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price of Derivative Security
(Instr. 5)
9. Number of Derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s)
(Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form of Derivative Security: Direct (D) or Indirect (I)
(Instr. 4)
11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership
(Instr. 4)
Code V (A) (D) Date Exercisable Expiration Date Title Amount or Number of Shares

Reporting Owners

Reporting Owner Name / Address Relationships
 Director  10% Owner  Officer  Other
CYPRESS SEMICONDUCTOR CORP /DE/
198 CHAMPION COURT
SAN JOSE, CA 95134-1599
  X   X    

Signatures

 /s/ Neil Weiss, Senior Vice President, Cypress Semiconductor Corporation   10/12/2012
**Signature of Reporting Person Date

Explanation of Responses:

* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4(b)(v).
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations. See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
(1) Reflects the shares of common stock of Ramtron International Corporation ("Ramtron") acquired during the subsequent offering period of the tender offer effected pursuant to the Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of September 18, 2012 (the "Merger Agreement"), entered into by and among the Reporting Person, Rain Acquisition Corp. ("Rain") and Ramtron, which commenced on October 10, 2012, including 748 shares acquired pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures.
(2) Reflects the shares of common stock of Ramtron acquired during the subsequent offering period of the tender offer effected pursuant to the Merger Agreement, which commenced on October 10, 2012, including 203,954 shares acquired pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures
(3) Reflects the shares of common stock of Ramtron acquired during the subsequent offering period of the tender offer effected pursuant to the Merger Agreement, which commenced on October 10, 2012, including 273,448 shares acquired pursuant to guaranteed delivery procedures.
(4) The Reporting Person is filing this Form 4 on behalf of itself and Rain, a Delaware corporation and a wholly owned subsidiary of the Reporting Person, with principal executive offices located at 198 Champion Court, San Jose, California 95134-1599. Of the shares of common stock of Ramtron to which this Form 4 relates, 1,667,584 were previously owned by the Reporting Person and the remainder were acquired by Rain in a tender offer for all outstanding shares of common stock of Ramtron upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Offer to Purchase dated June 21, 2012, which was annexed to and filed with the Schedule TO filed by the Reporting Person with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 21, 2012, as amended and supplemented from time to time (the "Offer").
(5) Pursuant to the Merger Agreement, Rain was entitled, after consummation of the Offer, to designate such number of directors of Ramtron, rounded up to the next whole number, as would give Rain representation on the board of directors of Ramtron equal to the product of the total number of Ramtron's directors (after giving effect to any increase in the number of directors pursuant to the Merger Agreement) multiplied by the percentage that the aggregate number of shares of common stock of Ramtron purchased by Rain in the Offer bears to the total number of shares of common stock outstanding. (Continued in Footnote 6)
(6) On October 10, 2012, immediately following the closing of the Offer, all of the directors of Ramtron resigned from the board of directors of Ramtron, other than Theodore J. Coburn, William G. Howard, Jr. and William L. George, and such remaining directors of Ramtron appointed T.J. Rodgers, Brad W. Buss, Dana C. Nazarian, Neil Weiss, Cathal Phelan and Thomas Surrette, each of whom was designated by Rain, to the board of directors of Ramtron.

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