The Company Profile... National Semiconductor

摘要

National Semiconductor came into existence in 1959, in Danbury, Connecticut, through the efforts of eight former Sperry Rand Corporation engineers. Among the first companies to set up shop in Silicon Valley in the late 1960s, Na' tional acquired Molectro Corp. and began producing voltage regulators and operational amplifier ICs (integrated circuits). Over the last 50 years various National Semiconductor products, notably memory devices and analog ASICs, have found significant applications in the auto industry. In 1987 National acquired Fairchild Semiconductor, which brought a line of discrete automotive power devices. National sold Fairchild in 1997.