Eurotechnique S. A.

Company Pedigree

Ascendant Companies		Descendent Companies
Company	Comments	Company	Comments
National Semiconductor/ Saint Gobain	Joint venture founded in 1979 by National Semiconductor and Saint-Gobain	Thomson	Thomson acquired Eurotechnique in 1983.

Company Overview

Founded April 10, 1979, Eurotechnique S. A. was a joint venture with Saint-Gobain to develop MOS memory products. NS had a 49% share. Eurotechnique's operations were in France. Eurotechnique developed chips were packaged at NS's Thailand facility starting in 1981. Eurotechnique was acquired by Thomson in 1983.

Major Achievements

Chip Identification

National Semiconductor Chips

Microprocessors
CPU's
MCU's
Bit-Slice
Coprocessors
Memory Devices
RAM
ROM
PROM
EPROM	Yes
EEPROM
CCD Memory
Bubble Memory
General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers
Interfaces
Communications

Second Sourced Chips

Microprocessors
CPU's
MCU's
Bit-Slice
Memory Devices
RAM
ROM
PROM
EPROM
EEPROM
CCD Memory
Bubble Memory
General Use Support Chips
Shift Registers
Interfaces
Communications