Companies

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Actel

Actel Corporation was founded by Esmat Hamdy and Amr Mohsen in Mountain View, California in 1985 to produce field programmable gate array integrated circuits and CAD development tools using anti-fuse and flash EPROM technologies. The company remains headquartered in Mountain View. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $190.5 million.

Advanced Memory Systems (AMS)

Advanced Memory Systems, Inc. was founded in Santa Clara County, California in 1968 to produce bipolar and MOS memory devices and complete memory systems. In 1969 AMS introduced one of the first 1K DRAMs. Founders included D, Berding (IBM), B. Dickson (Motorola), C. Fa (Collins), J. Larkin (Fairchild) and R. Lloyd (IBM). The company merged with Intersil, Inc. in 1976.

Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)

Advanced Micro Devices, Inc was founded in Sunnyvale, California in 1969 by eight Fairchild employees (F. Botte, J. Carey, J. Giles, J. Gifford. J. Sanders, S. Simonsen, L. Stegner, E. Turney) to produce bipolar TTL MSI and linear integrated circuits. The company became a major supplier of MOS memory and microprocessor devices in the 1980s. AMD and is headquartered in Sunnyvale. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $ 5.649 billion.

Altera

Altera Corporation was founded in San Jose, California in 1983 by Robert Hartmann (Fairchild) Michael Magranet (Fairchild), Paul Newhagen (Fairchild), and Jim Sansbury (HP) to produce electrically erasable programmable logic (EPLD) integrated circuits and design development tools. The Company is headquartered in San Jose, CA. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $1.26 billion.

Amelco

Amelco Semiconductor was founded in 1961 in Mountain View, California by Fairchild founders Jean Hoerni, Eugene Kleiner, Jay Last, and Sheldon Roberts. With financing from Teledyne Corporation arranged by Arthur Rock, the plan was to build monolithic integrated circuits in support of Teledyne’s military business. As the market took longer to develop than anticipated, product development was expanded to include a broad line of discrete devices and hybrid circuits for military and aerospace applications. Later renamed Teledyne Semiconductor, the company operated as a unit of Teledyne Components before being spun out in 1993 as Telcom Semiconductor, Inc. Telcom was acquired by Microchip in 2000.

American Micro Systems (AMI)

American Micro Systems, Inc. was founded in 1966 in Santa Clara, California by four Philco-Ford Microelectronics (formerly General Microelectronics) employees (H. Bobb, V. Peterson, W. Vallandighan, W. Wheeler) to produce MOS integrated circuits. In the 1970s AMI was a leading supplier of custom circuits (ASICs). Today, known as AMI Semiconductor (AMIS), the company is headquartered in Pocatello, Idaho and focuses on integrated mixed-signal products. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $606 million.

American Telephone and Telegraph (AT&T)

Founded in 1885 as American Telephone and Telegraph Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of American Bell Telephone Company, its nationwide telephone service made it the largest corporation in America at one time. Divesting its local operating companies by court order in 1984, AT&T focused on research (Bell Telephone Laboratories), equipment manufacturing (Western Electric) and long distance telephone services. In 1996, the corporation split into three independent companies; telecommunications (AT&T) manufacturing (Lucent Technologies) and computers (NCR). In 2005, the telecommunications business merged with SBC, itself a merger of some of the original AT&T operating companies. Lucent spun-off the semiconductor operations as Agere in 2002. Agere merged with LSI Logic to form LSI Corporation in 2006.

Analog Devices (ADI)

Analog Devices, Inc. was founded by Matthew Lorber and Ray Stata in 1965 in Cambridge, MA to produce modular precision operational amplifiers. In 1969 the company entered the semiconductor market by funding and later acquiring analog startup Nova Devices and by purchasing Precision Monolithics of Santa Clara, CA in 1990. Today ADI is a major supplier of analog, mixed-signal, and DSP products based in Norwood. MA. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $2.57 billion.

Apple

Apple Computer, Inc. was founded by Steve Jobs, Ron Wayne, and Steve Wozniak in April 1976 in Los Altos, CA. Through innovative design, broad independent-developer software support, and strong retail marketing programs, Apple emerged as the most successful of the early personal computer manufacturers. Renamed simply Apple, Inc., today the company is a supplier of high-technology “digital lifestyle” consumer products based in Cupertino, CA. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $19.3 billion.

Applied Materials Technology (AMT)

Applied Materials, Inc. was founded in 1967 by Mike McNeily and others in Santa Clara, CA to develop chemical vapor deposition (CVD) semiconductor manufacturing equipment. The company was a pioneer in offering a full range of equipment and process technology solutions for wafer fabrication for semiconductor chips, flat panels, solar photovoltaic cells, flexible electronics and energy efficient glass. Fiscal year 2006 revenue was $9.17 billion

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Beckman Instruments

Established by Dr. Arnold O. Beckman in 1934, Beckman Instruments introduced its first commercial product, a pH Meter, in 1935 and prospered as a supplier of analytical laboratory equipment. Beckman funded William Shockley’s Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory in Mountain View, CA as a division of the company in 1955 and sold the profitless business to Clevite in 1960. As Beckman Coulter, Inc., today the company is a manufacturer of biomedical testing systems and supplies based in Fullerton, CA with fiscal year 2006 revenue of $2.5 billion.

Bell Telephone Laboratories (BTL)

Founded in New York City in 1925 as the research arm of American Telephone and Telegraph Company (AT&T), beginning in the 1930’s Bell Telephone Laboratories expanded into multiple locations in New Jersey. The Bell Labs R&D community has made seminal scientific discoveries, created new technologies, and built communication systems around the world. Developed in 1947, as a replacement for vacuum tubes and mechanical relays, the transistor revolutionized the electronics world. Other semiconductor innovations followed, including the silicon transistor, the solar cell, and the laser. AT&T spun off Bell Labs in 1996, along with most of its equipment-manufacturing business, into a new company named Lucent Technologies. In 2006 Lucent merged with Alcatel.

Bowmar

Bowmar Instrument Corp. was founded in Fort Wayne, IA in 1951 by Edward and Joan White and grew as a supplier of light emitting diode (LED) semiconductor displays. The company expanded into the production of handheld calculators in 1971. Selling under its own brand name – the Bomar Brain – and private label manufacture for Craig, Sears, and others, in the mid-1970s Bomar was one of the world’s largest suppliers. A casualty of the calculator price wars, the company exited the business in 1976 to concentrate on government and industrial contracts.

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Cadence

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company founded in 1987 by the merger of Solomon Design Automation Systems (SDA) and ECAD, Inc. With headquarters in San Jose, California, Cadence is currently the largest supplier of electronic design software tools for chips and printed circuit boards. Fiscal 2006 revenue was $1.52 billion.

Clevite

Clevite Corporation of Cleveland, Ohio entered the semiconductor market in 1953 by purchasing Transistor Products Inc. an early manufacturer of point-contact devices located near Boston, MA. Under the name Clevite Transistor Products (CTP), the company became a major producer of germanium power transistors. In the early 1960s Clevite developed a number of custom ICs for the Minuteman missile and purchased Shockley Semiconductor Laboratory from Beckman. ITT acquired Clevite in 1965.

Cogar Corporation

George Cogar, one of the founders of Mohawk Data Sciences, Utica, NY, formed Cogar Corporation in Wappinger’s Falls, NY in January 1968. He recruited Robert Markle, Ray Pecararo, and Howard Geller, all senior managers from the IBM, East Fishkill semiconductor facility, to develop semiconductor memory devices to be sold as memory cards and complete systems to computer manufacturers who did not have access to advanced semiconductor processes. Although the company hired more than 60 experienced engineers from IBM and held a successful, high-profile IPO in 1969, the business failed and closed in April 1972.

Collins Radio

Arthur Collins founded Collins Radio Company in 1933 in Cedar Rapids, IA to produce radio equipment. By the 1960’s the company was manufacturer of broadcast radio transmitters and avionics instruments for military and commercial markets at which time it became an important purchaser of SUHL TTL from Sylvania. Collins was purchased by Rockwell International in 1973.

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