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

There were also unofficial ports to Intel 386 PC compatibles ( in 32-bit protected mode ), National Semiconductor NS32532, ARM and INMOS transputer processors.

These integrated circuits were supplied by Fairchild Semiconductor and Motorola.

Bell Telephone Laboratories needed a generic name for their new invention: " Semiconductor Triode ", " Solid Triode ", " Surface States Triode ", " Crystal Triode " and " Iotatron " were all considered, but " transistor ", coined by John R. Pierce, won an internal ballot.

Compatible parts were made by Motorola, AMD, Fairchild, Intel, Intersil, Signetics, Mullard, Siemens, SGS-Thomson and National Semiconductor, and many other companies, even in the Eastern Bloc ( Soviet Union, GDR, Poland, Bulgaria ).

The Apollo integrated circuits were resistor-transistor logic made by Fairchild Semiconductor.

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.

The Acorn Business Computer ( ABC ) plan required a number of second processors to be made to work with the BBC Micro platform, but processors such as the Motorola 68000 and National Semiconductor 32016 were unsuitable, and the 6502 was not powerful enough for a graphics based user interface.

The PAL devices were soon second-sourced by National Semiconductor, Texas Instruments and AMD.

The original AVR MCU was developed at a local ASIC house in Trondheim, Norway called Nordic VLSI at the time, now Nordic Semiconductor, where Bogen and Wollan were working as students.

The acquisition also brought to National Semiconductor two experts in linear semiconductor technologies, Dave Talbert and Robert Widlar, who were also formerly employed at Fairchild.

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.

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.

Among those were people from Amdahl, Apple Computer, BB & N, Hewlett Packard, CERN, Dolphin Server Technology, Cray Research, Sequent, AT & T, Digital Equipment Corporation, McDonnell Douglas, National Semiconductor, Stanford Linear Accelerator Center, Tektronix, Texas Instruments, Unisys, University of Oslo, University of Wisconsin.

The original Trapezoidal Transceivers were made by National Semiconductor.

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.

When negotiations with Plessey broke down over stock options, Lamond and Sporck succumbed to Widlar's and Talbert's ( who were already employed at National Semiconductor ) suggestion that they look to 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.

These product lines were constituted into the Fairchild division, headed by Kirk Pond, within National Semiconductor during Brian Halla's tenure.

While Fairchild inherited some offshore locations that were formerly National Semiconductor facilities.

The ICs, from Fairchild Semiconductor, were implemented using resistor-transistor logic ( RTL ) in a flat-pack.

Most cards were built with an Alliance Semiconductor AT25 / AT3D 2D component, but there were some built with a Macronix chip and there were initial plans to partner with Trident but no such boards were ever marketed.

Semiconductor devices, such as transistors, are made possible largely by putting different semiconductor dopants into different places, in specific patterns.

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

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.

These devices employed compound semiconductor chips fabricated with the planar process invented by Dr. Jean Hoerni at Fairchild Semiconductor.

:* 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.

Similarly numbered devices, with varying levels of compatibility with the original National Semiconductor part, are made by other manufacturers.

Semiconductor devices are electronic components that exploit the electronic properties of semiconductor materials, principally silicon, germanium, and gallium arsenide, as well as organic semiconductors.

Semiconductor devices have replaced thermionic devices ( vacuum tubes ) in most applications.

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.

National Semiconductor was an American semiconductor manufacturer, that specialized in analog devices and subsystems,

* – Semiconductor signal translating devices.

Semiconductor devices, particularly avalanche photodiodes, are alternatives to photomultipliers ; however, photomultipliers are uniquely well-suited for applications requiring low-noise, high-sensitivity detection of light that is imperfectly collimated.

* — Semiconductor signal translating devices.

* Metal Insulator Semiconductor, structure for electronic devices.

Numerous devices have been produced by Integrated Device Technology, Cypress Semiconductor, IBM, Broadcom and others to the LA interface agreement.

Zarlink Semiconductor was a virtually fabless semiconductor company specializing in the design and manufacture of communication and medical semiconductor integrated circuits, modules, and other devices.

* Semiconductor devices

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

All worked for Fairchild Semiconductor headed by Wilf Corigan a division of Fairchild Camera & Instrument.

The Commodore Semiconductor Group ( formerly MOS Technology, Inc .) was bought by its former management and in 1995, resumed operations under the name GMT Microelectronics, utilizing a troubled facility in Norristown, Pennsylvania that Commodore had closed in 1992.

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

In January 2011 a low power variant ( DECT ULE-ultra low energy ) was discussed at the DECT World and CAT-iq Conference with a whitepaper presented by Sitel ( Now Dialog ) Semiconductor.

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.

( In German ) An English translation can be found in " Semiconductor Devices: Pioneering Papers ", edited by S. M.

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.

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

Now produced by Freescale Semiconductor, it descended from the Motorola 6800 microprocessor.

MOS Technology, Inc. (" MOS " being short for Metal Oxide Semiconductor ) was originally started in 1969 by Allen-Bradley to provide a second source for Texas Instruments ( TI ) designed electronic calculators and the chips inside them.

After Commodore's bankruptcy in 1994, Commodore Semiconductor Group, MOS's successor, was bought by its former management for about $ 4. 3 million, plus an additional $ 1 million to cover miscellaneous expenses including EPA liens.

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

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 materials are useful because their behavior can be manipulated by the addition of impurities, known as doping.

The part was originally made by National Semiconductor.

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