Semiconductor diodes ' nonlinear current – voltage characteristic can be tailored by varying the semiconductor materials and introducing impurities into ( doping ) the materials.

Semiconductor devices, transistors and diodes are often connected by thin aluminum and gold wires using ultrasonic welding.

Semiconductor Equipment and Materials International ( SEMI ) is a trade organization of manufacturers of equipment and materials used in the fabrication of semiconductor devices such as integrated circuits, transistors, diodes, and thyristors.

* Semiconductor diodes

Semiconductor switching devices and anti-parallel connected freewheeling diodes form a bridge, which can connect each motor phase to the positive or negative dc-link potential.

In 1955, Beckman established the seminal Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory as a division of Beckman Instruments to begin commercializing the semiconductor transistor technology invented by Caltech alumnus William Shockley.

Semiconductor ROM was already available at the time, and RAM-less systems ( i. e. with ROM only ) became popular in many industrial settings.

Semiconductor fuses are intended for short-circuit protection only, and are not designed to be used as traditional current limiting fuses.

Semiconductor components must not only be very flat but must minimise power used in standby and when operating.

As a young graduate in 1971 Dham worked for Continental Devices India Limited, Delhi, one of India ’ s only private silicon semiconductor start-ups at the time which collaborated with Teledyne Semiconductor in California.

In 1999, National Semiconductor also put out feelers that it would sell, if not the whole then a majority stake of, its fabrication plant in South Portland, Maine.

The front-side bus of the Intel Pentium Pro, Pentium II and Pentium III microprocessors uses GTL + ( or GTLP ) developed by Fairchild Semiconductor, an upgraded version of GTL which has defined slew rates and higher voltage levels.

The Fairchild Channel F is a game console released by Fairchild Semiconductor in August 1976 at the retail price of $ 169. 95.

The Motorola 68000 is a 16 / 32-bit CISC microprocessor core designed and marketed by Freescale Semiconductor ( formerly Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ).

Motorola ceased production of the HMOS MC68000 and MC68008 in 1996, but its spin-off company, Freescale Semiconductor, is still producing the MC68HC000, MC68HC001, MC68EC000, and MC68SEC000, as well as the MC68302 and MC68306 microcontrollers and later versions of the DragonBall family.

Sony is among the Worldwide Top 20 Semiconductor Sales Leaders and third-largest television manufacturer in the world, after Samsung Electronics and LG Electronics.

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

Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ( TSMC ) and United Microelectronics Corporation ( UMC ) are the two largest contract chipmakers in the world, while MediaTek is the fourth-largest fabless supplier globally.

The current version ( since 1995 ) by National Semiconductor is called the 16550D.

* Semiconductor intellectual property core, is a unit of design in ASIC / FPGA electronics and IC manufacturing

Semiconductor technology today is also utilized to etch holographically patterned gratings into robust materials such as fused silica.

In the U. S. this sui generis law is known as the Semiconductor Chip Protection Act of 1984.

Texas Instruments is among the Top 20 Semiconductor producing companies in the world.

TI is made up of two main divisions: Semiconductors ( SC ) and Educational Technology ( ET ) of which Semiconductor products account for approximately 96 % of TI's revenue.

Apple was the dominant purchaser of PowerPC chips from IBM and Freescale Semiconductor and even though they abandoned the platform, further development of AltiVec is continued in several Power Architecture designs from Freescale and IBM.

AltiVec is a floating point and integer SIMD instruction set designed and owned by Apple, IBM and Freescale Semiconductor, formerly the Semiconductor Products Sector of Motorola, ( the AIM alliance ), and implemented on versions of the PowerPC including Motorola's G4, IBM's G5 and POWER6 processors, and P. A.

Acorn is sometimes referred to as the " British Apple " and has been compared to Fairchild Semiconductor for being a catalyst for start-ups.

Fujitsu Semicondutor Europe GmbH ( FSEU ) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Fujitsu Semiconductor Limited, formally known as Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbH.

The Motorola DSP56000 ( aka 56K ) is a family of digital signal processor ( DSP ) chips produced by Motorola Semiconductor ( now known as Freescale Semiconductor ) starting in the 1980s and is still being produced in more advanced models in the 2000s.

The county is the economic and industrial center of the state, having the resources of the Port of Portland, the Maine Mall, and having corporate headquarters of major companies such as Fairchild Semiconductor, IDEXX Laboratories, Unum, and TD Bank.

He advocated PC-on-a-chip ( aka system-on-a-chip ) as a business direction for National Semiconductor.

National Semiconductor distanced itself from the CPU market, and without direction, the Cyrix engineers left one by one.

GaAs / AlAs superlattice and potential profile of conduction and valence bands along the growth direction ( z ). Semiconductor materials, which are actually used to fabricate the superlattice structures, may be divided by the element groups, IV, III-V and II-VI.

During 1955-85, solid state technology research and development at Stanford University followed three waves of industrial innovation made possible by support from private corporations, mainly Bell Telephone Laboratories, Shockley Semiconductor, Fairchild Semiconductor, and Xerox PARC.

Semiconductor manufacturers would use a precise memory size such as 2048 by 8 and sometimes state the number of bits ( 16384 ).

It was an attempt to draw attention from the less-delayed 16 and 32-bit processors of other manufacturers ( such as Motorola, Zilog, and National Semiconductor ) and at the same time to counter the threat from the Zilog Z80 ( designed by former Intel employees ), which became very successful.

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.

Semiconductor memory doubles in size for each address line added to an integrated circuit package, which favors counts that are powers of two.

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.

Oberon was designed for Oberon operating system which ran on the Ceres workstation ( built around the National Semiconductor 32032 CPU ) and the Chameleon workstation.

National Semiconductor later released the 16550A which corrected this issue.

SPARC International was intended to open the SPARC architecture to make a larger ecosystem for the design, which has been licensed to several manufacturers, including Texas Instruments, Atmel, Cypress Semiconductor, and Fujitsu.

Semiconductor devices are manufactured both as single discrete devices and as integrated circuits ( ICs ), which consist of a number — from a few ( as low as two ) to billions — of devices manufactured and interconnected on a single semiconductor substrate, or wafer.

Dallas Semiconductor manufactured integrated DIP real-time clock ( RTC ) modules which contained an IC chip and a non-replaceable 10-year lithium battery.

Semiconductor optical amplifiers ( SOAs ) are amplifiers which use a semiconductor to provide the gain medium.

Cray then decided the solution was to work with the then-new silicon-based transistors from Fairchild Semiconductor, which were just coming onto the market and offered dramatically improved switching performance.

Amelio disposed off the non-core products and assets in which National Semiconductor had no market motivation or expertise and turned the company towards its core expertise-analogue semiconductors.

Amelio divided products into two divisions: Standard Products group which comprises low-margin, logic and memory chips-commodity products which were more susceptible to cyclical demands and through which National Semiconductor had matured ; and Communications & Computing group which comprises high-margin, value-added analogue and mixed-signal chips.

Amelio's thus division of products seemed to prepare National Semiconductor for the eventual disposal of low-margin commodity products, which came to fruition later with the sale of a reconstituted Fairchild.

Among the acquisitions were Cirrus Logic Inc's PicoPower business, for its specialised expertise in small form factor devices ; Mediamatics Inc, which makes multimedia connectivity products ; Future Integrated Systems Inc, a PC graphics company ; Gulbransen Inc, a digital audio technology maker ; ComCore Semiconductor Inc, a maker of digital signal processing for LANs ; Cyrix, the maker of Intel x86 clones.

It is the successor to the Intel StrongARM line of microprocessors and microcontrollers, which Intel acquired from DEC's Digital Semiconductor division as the side effect of a lawsuit between the two companies.

This provided Cyrix with an extra marketing arm and access to National Semiconductor fabrication plants, which were originally constructed to produce RAM and high-speed telecommunications equipment.

Widlar and Talbert had earlier left Fairchild to join Molectro, which was later acquired by National Semiconductor.

Gil Amelio, then CEO, had divided National Semiconductor products into two divisions: Standard Products group which comprises low-margin, logic and memory chips — commodity products which were more susceptible to cyclical demands and through which National Semiconductor had matured ; and Communications & Computing group which comprises high-margin, value-added analogue and mixed-signal chips.