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NXP Semiconductors N.V. NXP Semiconductors N.V. (NXP) is a Dutch semiconductor manufacturing and design company with headquarters in Eindhoven, Netherlands. [2] It is the third largest European semiconductor company by market capitalization as of 2024. [3] The company employs approximately 34,000 people in more than 30 countries and it reported ...
TSMC Global R＆D Center at night. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC or Taiwan Semiconductor) [4][5] is a Taiwanese multinational semiconductor contract manufacturing and design company. It is the world's second-most valuable semiconductor company, [6] the world's largest dedicated independent ("pure-play") semiconductor ...
Nexperia is a semiconductor manufacturer headquartered in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. It is a subsidiary of Wingtech Technology, a Shanghai-listed company partially owned by the State-owned Assets Supervision and Administration Commission of the State Council. It has front-end factories in Hamburg, Germany, and Greater Manchester, England. [4]
Gerard Philips (1858–1942), founder. The Philips Company was founded in 1891, by Dutch entrepreneur Gerard Philips and his father Frederik Philips. Frederik, a banker based in Zaltbommel, financed the purchase and setup of an empty factory building in Eindhoven, where the company started the production of carbon-filament lamps and other electro-technical products in 1892.
Signetics Corporation was an American electronics manufacturer specifically established to make integrated circuits. [1] Founded in 1961, they went on to develop a number of early microprocessors and support chips, as well as the widely used 555 timer chip. The company was bought by Philips in 1975 and incorporated in Philips Semiconductors ...
The company was the largest European semiconductors supplier, ahead of Infineon and NXP. Early in 2007, NXP Semiconductors (formerly Philips Semiconductors) and Freescale (formerly Motorola Semiconductors) decided to stop their participation in Crolles 2 Alliance. Under the terms of the agreement the Alliance came to an end on December 31, 2007 ...
Sylvania Electric Products. Sylvania Electric Products Inc. was an American manufacturer of diverse electrical equipment, including at various times radio transceivers, vacuum tubes, semiconductors, and mainframe computers such as MOBIDIC. They were one of the companies involved in the development of the COBOL programming language.
The company was acquired in 1999 by Philips for $21 a share, [2] and survives to this day as part of NXP Semiconductors. A VLSI VL82C106 Super I/O chip. The original business plan was to be a contract wafer fabrication company, but the venture investors wanted the company to develop IC (Integrated Circuit) design tools to help fill the foundry.