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Raytheon Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Rheem Semiconductor In 1961, Raytheon acquired the struggling Rheem Semiconductor from Rheem Manufacturing. Fairchild Semiconductor In 1997, Fairchild bought Raytheon Electronics’ RF Components Division Commercial Business Unit and it is now Fairchild’s Analog and Mixed Signal group. Company Overview Raytheon was founded in 1922 as …
RCA Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments RCA Corporation RCA Semiconductor and Materials was formed as a division of RCA Corporation in 1950. GE Solid State Purchased RCA Semiconductor in 1986. Company Overview Major Achievements First Television (Vladimir Zworykin) First transistor television (Gearld Herzog) Invented CMOS CMOS/SOS Process (in conjunction with …
Rheem Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Fairchild Semiconductor Founded, in 1959, by Fairchild General Manager, Ed Baldwin and other Fairchild employees. Rheem Semiconductor was subsidiary of Rheem Manufacturing. Raytheon Semiconductor In 1961, Raytheon acquired the struggling Rheem Semiconductor from Rheem Manufacturing. Company Overview Rheem Semiconductor produced transistors and diodes. Rheem struggled …
Rockwell Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Rockwell International Formed as a division of Rockwell International around 1967 Conexant Systems Rockwell International spun-off its semiconductor division in 1999
Seeq Technology
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Intel Founded by ex-Intel employee Gordie Campbell in 1981 Chips & Technology Founded by Gordie Campbell in 1984 Company Overview Seeq Technology was founded by former Intel employees to compete with Intel in the EPROM market. Their first product was a 128KB EPROM. Chip Identification …
Shockley Transistor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments AT&T / Bell Labs William Shockley left Bell Labs to form Shockley Semiconductor with backing from Beckman Instruments Fairchild Semiconductor “Traitorous Eight” from Shockley Semiconductor: Julius Blank, Victor Grinich, Jean Hoerni, Gene Kleiner, Jay Last, Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce, and Sheldon Roberts Clevite Purchased Shockley …
Signetics Semiconductor
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Fairchild Semiconductor Founded in by four of original 8 founders of Fairchild in 1961. Philips Semiconductor Purchased in 1975. Philips used the Signetics brand name until 1992. Cirrus Logic Mike Hackworth, co-founded with Suhas Patil of MIT in 1984. Intersil Jim Riley left Signetics to …
SGS (Societa Generale Semiconduttore)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Olivetti & Telettra Founding Italian companies for SGS, in the 1950’s SGS-Fairchild In 1960 Fairchild formed a partnership with the Italian government. This partnership took the form of an investment in Italy’s SGS resulting in new company SGS-Fairchild SpA. In 1968 Fairchild withdrew from the …
SGS-Ates Componenti Electtronici SpA
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments SGS SGS merged with another Italian company, Ates, to form SGS-Ates in 1971 SGS Microelettronic In 1985, SGS-Ates was renamed to SGS Microelettronic Ates Ates merged with another Italian company, SGS, to form SGS-Ates in 1971 SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics SGS Microelettronic merged with Thomson in June …
SGS-Thomson Microelectronics
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments SGS Microelettronica SGS was merged with Thomson in June of 1987 to create SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics STMicroelectronics Changed its name to STMicroelectronics in May of 1998 Thomson Semiconducteurs The non-military part of Thomson Semiconducteurs merged with SGS in June of 1987 to create SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics Company …
Solid State Micro Technology (SSM)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Precision Monolithic Bought by Precision Monolithic Company Overview
SSS (Solid State Scientific)
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Solid State Scientific, Inc. Found in Montgomeryville, PA in 1973 Sprague Solid State Scientific Solid State Scientific, Inc. acquired by The Penn Central Corp. & name changed to Sprague Solid State. Sprague Solid State sub. of Sprague Technologies Inc. Sprague Electric Co. acquired by General …
STMicroelectronics
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments SGS-Thomson Microelectronics SGS-Thomson Microelectronics changed its name to STMicroelectronics in May of 1998 Company Overview On December 31, 1997, SGS-Thomson Microelectronics went public, renaming the company STMicroelectronics. The French and Italian governments sold 31% of the stock to the public. By 2002, STMicroelectronics government owned …
Sylvania Electric, Inc.
Company Pedigree Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments General Telephone and Electric In 1959, General Telephone acquired Sylvania Electric. The merged companies became GTE, General Telephone and Electric. Company Overview Founded in 1924, as Sylvania Products, Inc., as a lighting products company. Except for transistors produced before 1959, all semiconductors were produced by …