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Teledyne Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Amelco Amelco was bought by, in 1960, Teledyne. Of Amelco’s original founders only Dr. Jay Last remained. Company Overview
Texas Instruments
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendant Companies Company Comments Company Comments TI Founded as Geophysical Service, Inc. in 1930. Purchased a license from Western Electric (AT&T) to manufacture transistors in 1952. Mostek Founded by L. J. Sevin and other TI employees in 1969. Harris Acquired Harris’ CMOS products in 1998. Burr-Brown Acquired by TI in 2000 …
Thomson Semiconducteurs
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Thomson-CSF This is the French parent company to Thomson Semiconducteurs SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics The non-military part of Thomson Semiconducteurs merged with SGS-Ates in June of 1987 to create SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Eurotechnique Acquired Eurotechnique from National Semiconductor and Saint-Gobain Company Overview Chip Identification Thomson Chips …
Transitron Electronic Corporation
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Founded by Dr. David Bakalar in Wakefield, Massachusetts in 1952 to manufacture transistors. Dr. Bakalar led Transitron for 30 years. Transitron ceased operations in 1986. Company Overview By 1955 TI and Transitron were the leaders of the transistor industry with over 35% of the market. …
Weitek
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Weitek Founded by Chi-Shin Wang, Edmund Sun, and Godfrey Fong (President and CEO) in 1981 in San Jose. All founders immigrated from China. Company Overview Weitek specialized in high-performance digital semiconductor components and systems for the computer and workstation industries. Weitek floating point units have …
Western Design Center
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Commodore Business Machines Founded by Bill Mensch in 1978, after a brief 1 year stint at Integrated Circuit Engineering (ICE) Company Overview Focused on the the developed of MOS 6502 related microprocessors. Chip Identification Western Design Center Logo Western Design Center Chips Microprocessors …
Western Digital Corporation
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Motorola Founded by former Motorola employee, Alvin Phillips. Western Digital was originally called General Digital Corporation. Tandon Corporation Bought Tandon’s disk drive division in 1988. Company Overview Western Digital Corporation was founded in 1970. Today, Western Digital is best known for its disk drives, however …
Zilog
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Intel Founded by Federico Faggin, Ralph Ungermann, and some other Intel employees in 1974. Company Overview Major Achievements Chip Identification Zilog Chips Microprocessors CPU’s Z80, Z8, Z8000 MCU’s Bit-Slice Coprocessors Memory Devices RAM ROM PROM …