In 1957 the Fairchild Semiconductor division was started with plans on making silicon transistors at a time when germanium was still the most common material for semiconductor use.

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material structures

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material structures

Category: Semiconductor material types

Category: Semiconductor material types

The first international Bluetooth Innovation World Cup 2009 drew more than 250 international entries, including Nokia, Freescale Semiconductor, Texas Instruments, Nordic Semiconductor, STMicroelectronics and Brunel.

And in September 2011 Dialog Semiconductor announced the first commercially available DECT ULE devices.

The standard was first discussed in January 2011 and the first commercial products were launched later that year by Dialog Semiconductor.

Fairchild Semiconductor was also home of the first silicon gate IC technology with self-aligned gates, which stands as the basis of all modern CMOS computer chips.

The original DEC StrongARM team eventually split into two MIPS-based start-ups: SiByte which produced the SB-1250, one of the first high-performance MIPS-based systems-on-a-chip ( SOC ); while Alchemy Semiconductor ( later acquired by AMD ) produced the Au-1000 SoC for low-power applications.

National Semiconductor had been first with its IMP-16 and PACE processors in 1973-1975, but these had issues with speed.

In 1963, the first monolithic IC op-amp, the μA702 designed by Bob Widlar at Fairchild Semiconductor, was released.

It became available in the late 1970s, and may have been the first 32-bit chip to reach mass production and sale ( at least according to National Semiconductor marketing ).

* 1973 – Fairchild Semiconductor releases the first large image forming CCD chip ; 100 rows and 100 columns.

His first book on semiconductors, Physics and Technology of Semiconductor Devices ( 1971 ), has been used by leading universities.

It is commonly noted that the first venture-backed startup is Fairchild Semiconductor ( which produced the first commercially practicable integrated circuit ), funded in 1959 by what would later become Venrock Associates.

It is commonly noted that the first venture-backed startup is Fairchild Semiconductor ( which produced the first commercially practical integrated circuit ), funded in 1959 by what would later become Venrock Associates.

It was first to employ medium-scale integration ( MSI ) circuits from Fairchild Semiconductor, with subsequent models using large-scale integrated ( LSI ) circuits.

In 1974, the group expanded into the semiconductor business by acquiring Korea Semiconductor, one of the first chip-making facilities in the country at the time.

He moved to Fairchild Semiconductor in 1971, where he led the development of the first commercial CCD image sensors in the early 1970s, and in 1977 became head of the MOS division.

Although the 7400 series was the first de facto industry standard TTL logic family to be second-sourced by several semiconductor companies, there were earlier TTL logic families such as the Sylvania SUHL ( Sylvania Universal High-level Logic ) family, Motorola MC4000 MTTL family ( not to be confused with RCA CD4000 CMOS ), the National Semiconductor DM8000 family, Fairchild 9300 series, and the Signetics 8200 family.

* The silicon-gate MOS technology, created at the Palo Alto, CA, R & D Laboratories of Fairchild Semiconductor in 1968, was the world ’ s first practical method to manufacture MOS ( metal – oxide – semiconductor ) integrated circuits with self-aligned gates.

In 1956, he was among the first to accept an offer from William Shockley to come to California to help form what became Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory.

In 1957, he and seven colleagues ( the " Fairchild eight ", whom Shockley dubbed the " traitorous eight ") left to found Fairchild Semiconductor, which most historians mark as the first major spin-off of what later was called Silicon Valley.

Semiconductor detectors for high-energy particles are used in large numbers.

Fairchild Semiconductor provided the medium-scale integration ( MSI ) chips used throughout the system.

* The MESFET ( Metal – Semiconductor Field-Effect Transistor ) substitutes the p-n junction of the JFET with a Schottky barrier ; used in GaAs and other III-V semiconductor materials.

Semiconductor lasers are typically very small, and can be pumped with a simple electric current, enabling them to be used in consumer devices such as compact disc players.

:* Semiconductor materials and semiconductor devices, for a specialized understanding of the advanced processes used in industry ( e. g. crystal growth techniques, thin-film deposition, ion implantation, photolithography ), their properties, and their integration in electronic devices

Semiconductor device fabrication is the process used to create the integrated circuits that are present in everyday electrical and electronic devices.

** Semiconductor used in volatile random-access memory

Semiconductor rectifiers were familiar devices by the end of World War II, and Shockley hoped to produce a new device that would have a variable resistance and hence could be used as an amplifier.

Semiconductor optical amplifiers are typically made from group III-V compound semiconductors such as GaAs / AlGaAs, InP / InGaAs, InP / InGaAsP and InP / InAlGaAs, though any direct band gap semiconductors such as II-VI could conceivably be used.

** Semiconductor used in volatile RAM microchips

One of the ways they hoped to improve the CDC 1604 was to use better transistors, and Cray used the new silicon transistors using the planar process, developed by Fairchild Semiconductor.

In some early microprocessors such as the National Semiconductor IMP-16 family, a multi-phase clock was used.

Many designers of military and aerospace equipment used this family over a long period and as they need exact replacements, this family is still produced by Lansdale Semiconductor.

First used in a Japanese company ’ s press release dating to 1981, Lattice Semiconductor trademarked the term in 1984 but does not use the term in its marketing materials.

* Freescale Semiconductor makes the PowerPC processors that were used in the pre-Intel Apple Computer notebooks.

Later Dallas Semiconductor made compatible RTCs, which was often used in older personal computers, and are easily found on motherboards because of their distinctive black battery cap and silkscreened logo.

For example, the Data General Nova minicomputer, and the Texas Instruments TMS9900 and National Semiconductor IMP-16 microcomputers used 16 bit words, and there were many 36-bit mainframe computers ( e. g., PDP-10 ) which used 18-bit word addressing, not byte addressing, giving an address space of 2 < sup > 18 </ sup > 36-bit words, approximately 1 megabyte of storage.

Lattice Semiconductor introduced the generic array logic ( GAL ) family in 1985, with functional equivalents of the " V " series PALs that used reprogrammable logic planes based on EEPROM ( electrically eraseable programmable read-only memory ) technology.

Semiconductor saturable absorbers ( SESAMs ) were used for laser mode-locking as early as 1974 when p-type germanium is used to mode lock a CO < sub > 2 </ sub > laser which generated pulses ~ 500 ps.

Semiconductor diode lasers are typically used in plastic welding.