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General Instrument
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments General Transistor General Transistor was bought by GI in 1960 and merged in their newly formed semiconductor division. Microchip Technology GI’s Microelectronics Division was spun-off as Microchip Technology, Inc (included the PIC family of microprocessors). in 1989. Motorola GI spun-off its broadband products division …
GE (General Electric Solid State)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendant Companies Company Comments Company Comments GE, Inc. GE Solid State was formed as a division of GE, Inc. Harris Semiconductor Purchased GE Solid State from GE, Inc. in 1988. Intersil Intersil was purchased by GE Solid State in 1986. RCA RCA was purchased by GE Solid State in 1986. …
General Micro-electronics, Inc.
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Fairchild Semiconductor Co-founded by former Fairchild employees Jim Ferguson. Bob Norman and Howard Bobb along with Arthur Lowell (who brought the funding of Pyle-National) in 1963 Philco-Ford Bought the financially troubled company in 1966 and closed it in 1968 AMI Founded by Howard Bobb …
General Telephone and Electric (GTE)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Sylvania In 1959, General Telephone acquired Sylvania Electric General Telephone The merged companies became GTE, General Telephone and Electric. Company Overview Under the GTE brand, GTE produced analog and mixed signal IC’s and microprocessor clones. After the 1959 merger GTE continued to use the …
GMT Microelectronics Corporation
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Commodore Semiconductor Group Former Commodore Semiconductor Group (CSG) management bought the assets of CSG from the bankrupt Commodore Business Machines in 1995. Company Overview GMT Microelectronics Corporation (GMT stands for Great Mixed-signal Technologies) was an independent, privately held, silicon wafer foundry and analog, mixed-signal …
GoldStar Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendant Companies Company Comments Company Comments GoldStar GoldStar was a Korean electronics company founded in 1958. GoldStar Semiconductor was formed as a joint venture with AT&T LG Electronics GoldStar changed its name to LG Electronics in 1995 AT&T GoldStar Semiconductor was formed as a joint venture with GoldStar Company Overview GoldStar …
Harris Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments GE Solid State GE Solid State was purchased from General Electric, inc. in 1988. Texas Instruments Acquired Harris’ CMOS products in 1998. Sterling, LLC Acquired Harris Semiconductor in 1999. This company is focused on wireless technology and IPO’ed in 2000 again using the Intersil …
Hitachi Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Hitachi Founded in 1910 as an electronics repair shop by Namihei Odaira. Company Overview Founded in 1910 as an electronics repair shop by Namihei Odaira. Hitachi’s product line expanded to electric transformers, motors and generators through the 1930’s. In the 1940’s and 50’s, Hitachi’s product …
Integrated Information Technology (IIT)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments 8×8 IIT is now known as 8×8 Company Overview Founded in 1987 in Santa Clara IIT Chips Second sourced Intel 8087 coprocessors 2C87 and 3C87
Intel Corporation
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Fairchild Semiconductor Bob Noyce and Gordon Moore left Fairchild to found Intel. Many other Fairchild employees latter joined Intel Seeq Technology Founded by Gordie Campbell in 1980 Sequent A computer company founded by Cassey Powell. Developed NUMA technology. Sequent was bought by IBM in 1999. …
Intersil Corporation
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Fairchild Semiconductor Jean Hoerni founded Intersil (after co-founding Amelco, 1961, and Union Carbide Electronics, 1964) to make digital watches in 1967. GE Solid State Purchased Intersil in 1986 Signetics Jim Riley left Signetics to become the president of Intersil Company Overview Fab locations 1700 …