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Notes:

Beware that a company may be listed under it's abbreviation ('IBM') but also under it's full name ('International Business Machines') so when you want to make sure, check both places.
These listings usually cover about 99.9% of all chip manufacturers so it will be very appreciated by me and currently about 250,000 of your colleagues (monthly) all over the world when you would email me about anything that should be changed or added.
For foundries see also the foundry and chip making pages.

AANetcom

(A division of PMC-Sierra)

www.aanetcom.com/

networking chips (ethernet, SONET)

ABB

(198904: Bought by IXYS. Now called IXYS Semiconductor GmbH.)

ABB Power Semiconductor Operation
Lampertheim
Germany

www.ixys.com/

current parent company

ABB Haffo

(1996: Bought by Mitel which is now called Zarlink.)

Sweden

www.zarlink.com/

new parent company

Used to be a manufacturer of optoelectronic semiconductor components and mixed-signal ASICs (Applications Specific Integrated Circuits) for medical applications. Introduced the industry's first Echo Cancellation chip.

Abpac

See Abpac on the foundry page.

Abrizio

(19990902: Bought by PMC-Sierra).

www.pmc-sierra.com/	general
www.abrizio.com/	jumps to main page of PMC-Sierra now

AB Semicon

AB Semicon Ltd.
62 Victoria Road
Burgess Hill, West Sussex, RH15 9LR
United Kingdom
tel: +44-1444-870408
fax: +44-1444-870452

sales@ab-semicon.com
techsupport@ab-semicon.com	Technical Support

www.ab-semicon.com/

General

Products:

PCI to Local Bus Interfaces

Static and Dual Ported Memories

RISC Based Microcontrollers

Network MAC and Physical layer

Custom silicon from 800 to 100k gates

Acapella

Old data:

Fibre Optic data and telecommunications ICs. We specialise in low cost single fibre links.
The company was started 6 years ago to develop ICs for the global telecomms markets.
Distributers and sales throughout the world.

Networking chips, fibre optics, modem

ACS101

ACS102

ACS103

ACS104

ACS401

ACS405CS

ACS406CS

ACS5010CS

ACS9010

Acard

(since 1994)

Acard Technology
6F 78 Sec. 1 Kwang Fu Road
Sanchung, Taipei Hsien 241
Taiwan
tel: +886-2-8512-2290
fax: +886-2-8512-2548
sales@mail.acard.com
support@mail.acard.com

www.acard.com/	Both are the same
www.acard.com.tw/	Both are the same

Rapidly growing technology company, outstanding for the high-quality complete IDE and SCSI solution. We emerged on the base of strong engineer background. Right now, we provide not only the adapters and chips for IDE and SCSI but also field proven BIOS and drivers. What we provide are the complete solution and fully technical support. So, any problem you meet we can solve for you under the "Customer-First"

AECxxxx

Accelerated Technology

See ATI

Accelerix

(Founded 1996. Spinoff from Symbionics. Part of Mosaid since about 200006.)

Accelerix Incorporated designed, manufactured and sold Application Specific Memory (ASM) "systems on a chip" products for the PC graphics marketplace.

The PhantASMTM Family of Ultra-High Performance Graphics Accelerators:

PhantASMTM AX256-1M

PhantASMTM AX256-2M

PhantASMTM AX256-4M

Graphic accelerator chips

AXxxxx

ACCMicro

(since 1987)

ACC Microelectronics
See Auctor

PC system chips

Acculin

Acculin Inc.
209 West Central Street
Natick, MA 01760
USA
tel: +1-508-650-1012
fax: +1-508-650-1457

Products:

AL1210

Track/Hold Amp, 12-Bit, 100 Msps

ACD

(1996?)

Advanced Communication Devices
970 Rincon Circle
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
tel: +1-408-433-9898
fax: +1-408-545-0930

webmaster@acdcorp.com

www.acdcorp.com/

Ethernet networking chips

ACDxxxxx

Acer Labs

See ALi.

ACT

ACT

Chip set?

Actel

(1985)

Actel Corporation
955 East Arques Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086-4533
USA
tel: +1-408-739-1010
fax: +1-408-739-1540

shrum@actel.com	General
tech@actel.com	Technical Support
webmaster@actel.com	Web Comments

www.actel.com/	General
www.actel.com/products/	Data sheets

Actel designs, develops and markets Field Programmable Gate Arrays (FPGA's) and Mask Programmed Gate Arrays (MPGA's) and associated software development systems and programming hardware.

ACTIL

(20010303: No longer exists it seems.)

ACTIL
Aditim, Building 12
Tel-Aviv 61580
Israel
tel: +972-3-6495411
fax: +972-3-6495412

Products:

Active Coils

Active capacitors

Power Active Filters

Ripple Attenuators

Surge Protection Device

Telecomunication Remote Feeding

Zero Dropout Voltage Regulators

Acumen Instruments

Acumen Instruments Corporation
2501 N. Loop Drive, Suite 1613
Ames, IA 50010
USA
tel: +1-515-296-5366
fax: +1-515-233-0078

info@acumeninstruments.com

www.acumeninstruments.com/	General
www.acumeninstruments.com/corporate/corporate.shtml	About
www.acumeninstruments.com/whatsnew/whatsnew.shtml	News
www.acumeninstruments.com/products/products.shtml	Technical data

Acumen Instruments Corporation[tm] is a leader in embedded storage and connectivity solutions. Acumen's DataBridge[tm] technology revolutionizes data collection, storage, and communication by integrating these functions in a single chip. Our customers are realizing clear productivity gains by leveraging DataBridge technology to eliminate expensive, power-hungry PC-based data systems.

We partner with manufacturers to develop customized applications based on DataBridge technology. Acumen provides a range of solutions from single chips to custom circuit boards to enable instruments to be networked and linked with convenient, affordable, off-the-shelf consumer storage devices. With DataBridge technology, sensors and instruments become stand-alone information devices.

Since Acumen's incorporation in 1997, DataBridge technology has been used in applications to record process monitoring data, log industrial sensor output, and monitor air quality. The technology is also being used to store high-volume data generated by GPS reference stations and data from medical monitoring equipment. Our products have been proven in environments ranging from factories and laboratories to forest canopies and Antarctic mountaintops.

The Acumen Instruments Corporation's proprietary DataBridge technology and its in-house engineering expertise are successfully helping worldwide manufacturers, across many industries, to enhance existing products and to develop new products with reduced costs, reduced power consumption, and reduced system complexity, while increasing system stability and dependability.

See Analog Devices

Adaptec

(1981)

Adaptec
Milpitas, CA
USA
tel: +1-408-945-8600

www.adaptec.com/	General
www.adaptec.com/products/	Data sheets

SCSI chips

Adaptive Logic

Adaptive Logic

www.adaptivelogic.com/

General

gone? (20010303)

Adaptive Networks

(1983)

Adaptive Networks

sales@adaptivenetworks.com

www.adaptivenetworks.com/

General

Power line networking chips

AN1000, AN192, AN48

Adaptive Solutions

Adaptive Solutions Inc.

www.asi.com/

General

20010303: gone?

20020314: still gone!

Do they make chips?

A-DATA

A-DATA Technology Co., Ltd.
14F, NO.258, Lain Cheng Rd.
Chung Ho City, Taipei
Taiwan 235
tel: +886-2-8228-0886
fax: +886-2-8228-0887
adata@adata.com.tw

www.adata.com.tw/

Production capacity is at 700k per month for 128M module and 5m pcs per month for DRAM Chip. We will continuously to introduce more related products to meet market requirements. Strong FAE team and test Lab is our core competence to provide you the best services for compatibility testing across different platforms, e.g. PC, LCD PC, NOTE BOOK, CAR PC, PALM, PDA, SERVER, PRINTER, MOBILE PHONE, CORDLESS COMMUNICATION PRODUCTS, etc. We are also capable and willing to perform any tests you may require.

ADC

Analogue Design Consultants
See Acapella

Adhoc Technologies

Adhoc Technologies

www.adhoctech.com/

gone? (20010303)

Networking chips (ethernet transceivers)

ADI

(1989, they seem to have gone broke around 200208)

Old address:

Audio Digital Imaging Inc.
511 West Golf Road
Arlington Heights, Illinois 60005
USA
tel: +1-847-439-1335
fax: +1-847-439-1533

sads@adi.net

www.adi.net/	gone
siliconinvestor.advfn.com/readmsg.aspx?msgid=17905773	About the dead of the company

They used to make:

MPEG video compression chips, Apogee series
Audio DigitalImaging, Inc., (ADI) specializes in the design and development of digital video and audio compression multimedia components. From its inception in 1989, the Company's objective has been to establish itself as a system provider of high quality proprietary video compression hardware and software systems for manufacturers of specialized products. Now, worldwide acceptance of international standards for video and audio compression is propelling an emerging multi-billion dollar multimedia industry. ADI intends to become a premier supplier of quality integrated chip components that enable execution of audio and video compression for, and decode of, these standards by offering solid, well-conceived products that fill an unfilled need.

ADMtek

www.admtek.com.tw/

networking chips (ethernet)

Advanced Analogic

(Since 1998)

Advanced Analogic Technologies, Inc.
1250 Oakmead Parkway, Suite 310
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
USA
tel: +1-408-524-9684
tel: +1-888-667-2284 - toll free in the USA
fax: +1-408-524-9689

erikogren@analogictech.com	technical support
sales@analogictech.com	sales

www.analogictech.com/

General

New company concentrating solely on power management semiconductors. We design and produce ICs for switch-mode power supplies, battery switches and load switches in notebook computers and other portable equipment.

Advanced Communication Devices

www.acdcorp.com/

networking chips (ethernet)

Advanced Electronics

Advanced Electronics

Diodes, optocouplers, thyristors, power transistors, communication ICs.

Distributor of manufacturer?

Advanced Hardware Architectures

Advanced Hardware Architectures, Inc.
See AHA

Advanced Linear Devices

(1985)

Advanced Linear Devices, Inc.
415 Tasman Drive
Sunnyvale, CA 94089-1706
USA
tel: +1-408-747-1155
fax: +1-408-747-1286

aldinc@aldinc.com

www.aldinc.com/	General
www.aldinc.com/online_prod.html	Products

Opamps, comparators, transistors, analog switches, MOSFETs, electrically programmable analog device (EPAD).

ALDxxxx

Advanced Micro Devices

See AMD

Advanced Micro Systems

(See also the next entry)

2 Townsend West
Nashua, NH 03063-1277
USA
tel: +1-603-882-1447
fax: +1-603-881-76000

sales@ams2000.com

www.ams2000.com/

Motor controllers

Product code's:

SMC-x

Advanced Monolithic Systems

(See also the previous entry)

See AMS

Advanced Power

(1994, 2008: seems to be bought by www.microsemi.com/)

USA:

Advanced Power Technology
405 S.W. Columbia Street
Bend, OR 97702
USA
tel: +1-541-382-8028
tel: +1-800-522-0809 - Free in the USA

Europe:

Parc Cadera Nord - AV Kennedy - Bat B4
F-33700 Merignac
France
tel: +33-557-921515

www.microsemi.com/

now owned by Micro Semi

Products:

Diodes, IGBT, modules, MOSFETs, power semiconductors, rectifiers

Product code's:

APTxxxx

Advanced Rendering Technology

(ART)

www.art-render.com/

graphics processors

Advanced RISC Machines

See ARM

Advanced Semiconductor

(see also the next entry)

(ASI)

www.advancedsemiconductor.com/

transistors (MOS, BJT), diodes, thyristors

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing

(see also the previous entry)

Advanced Semiconductor Manufacturing Corporation of Shanghai
Shanghai
China

Advanced Telecommunications Modules

(Founded 1988 or 1993. Called Virata since 199802)

www.virata.com/

ATM networking chips

AEG

AEG Corporation-Telefunken
(Owned by Daimler-Benz but partly sold again. Difficult to keep track...)

Somerville, NJ
USA

See Temic

AEP

Makes memory

Aeroflex

(See also Aeroflex UTMC, next entry.)

Aeroflex, Inc.
35 South Service Road
Plainview, NY 11803
USA
tel: +1-516-694-6700
fax: +1-516-694-4823

t2@aeroflex.com

www.aeroflex.com/

General

Aeroflex manufacturers integrated circuits, hybrids and MCM's for mil-std-1553 data bus, mil-std-1369, arinc 629, arinc 429 mil-std-1760,mil-ethernet devices, voltage regulators and power and motor drive hybrids. aeroflex also designs custom analog (bipolar mixed signal) and digital (cmos gatearrays), provides custom packaging-flip chip, chip on board(cob), tab and surface mount pc boards.

Aeroflex UTMC

(Now part of Aeroflex, see previous entry.)

Areoflex United Technologies Microelectronics Corporation, Inc.
4350 Centennial Blvd.
Colorado Springs, CO 80907
tel: +1-719-594-8000

www.utmc.com/

General

UTMC is a supplier of integrated circuits and circuit card assemblies for the aerospace and defense industry.

Agere

(The former microelectronics department of Lucent/AT&T/Bell-labs.)

www.agere.com/

General

Ethernet switch IC's and other telecommunications and networking chips.

Agilent

(1999-11-18 it was spun-off from HP into a public company at the New York Stock Exchange. The semiconductor part is now called Avago Technologies.)

Agilent Technologies
395 Page Mill Rd.
P.O. Box 10395
Palo Alto, CA 94303
USA
tel: +1-650-752-5000
tel: +1-707-577-4894

info_caddatastore@agilent.com

sales_caddatastore@agilent.com

www.agilent.com/	General
www.agilent.com/home/avagotechnologies.shtml	since 2005-12-01 called Avago Technologies
www.avagotech.com/	new name

Agilent Technologies' separation from Hewlett-Packard Company is the result of a corporate realignment. On November 18, 1999, Agilent listed as a public company on the New York Stock Exchange. At the time, Agilent's U.S.$2.1 billion initial public offering of stock was the largest in Silicon Valley history. Agilent operates four businesses: test and measurement, semiconductor products, healthcare solutions and chemical analysis, supported by a central laboratory. Its businesses excel in applying measurement technologies to develop products that sense, analyze, display and communicate data.

AHA

(1988)

Advanced Hardware Architectures, Inc.
Box 9669
Moscow, ID 83843
USA
tel: +1-208-883-8000
fax: +1-208-883-8001

www.aha.com/

General

data controllers, data compression chips, error correction chips

Product codes:

AHAxxxx

AHS Ltd

Advanced Hall Sensors, Ltd.
The Fairbairn Building
72 Sackville Street
PO Box 88
Manchester, M60 1QD
UK
tel: +44-161-200-8832
fax: +44-161-200-3052
info@ahsltd.com

www.ahsltd.com/

General

AHS Ltd is a manufacturer and design house of Hall effect chips. Our technology is based on 2-DEG materials (III-V and not silicon), allowing us to put in the market very high specifications at extremely competetive pricing.

AIC

Analog Integrations Corporation
4F,9 Industry E. 9th Rd
Science-based Industrial Park, Hsinchu
Taiwan
tel: +886-3-5772500
fax: +886-3-5772510
sales@analog.com.tw

www.analog.com.tw/

Analog Integrations Corporation (AIC) is an IC company devoted exclusively to designing, testing and marketing analog integrated circuits. After successfully winning a sound reputation for excellence, quality and customer responsiveness, AIC is quickly emerging as one of the Pacific Rim leaders in analog integrated circuit products.

Products:

Battery Management ICs

High Current Driver ICs

High efficiency DC/DC Converter

IR Preamplifiers

Linear Voltage Regulators

Power Management and Supervisory ICs

Aimtron

Aimtron Technology Inc.
10F-1,No55,Tung-Kuang Road
Hsinchu City
Taiwan
tel: +886-3-5753058
fax: +886-3-5753015
service@aimtron.com.tw

www.aimtron.com.tw/	general
www.aimtron.com.tw/products.asp	products
www.aimtron.com.tw/news.asp	news
www.aimtron.com.tw/about.asp	about
www.aimtron.com.tw/contact.asp	contact

Power management, data converters, signal processing ICs, serial communication.

Data converters (high speed, video), DC/DC converters.

AITech

(1987)
AITech

www.aitech.com/

General

Video convert chips

Product codes:

AITxxxx

Ajile Systems

www.ajile.com/

java processors

Akita

Akita Electronics Co., Ltd.
Daisan Maruzen Bldg.
6-16-6, Nishi-shinjyuku, Shinjyuku-ku
Tokyo 160-0023
Japan
tel: +81-3-3345-9770
fax: +81-3-3346-9363
info@akita-elec.co.jp

www.akita-elec.co.jp/	in Japanese
www.h-kokusai.com/	(How I found them)

AKM

(Asahi Kasei Microsystems)

AKM Semiconductor Inc.
San Jose, CA
USA

www.akm.com/	General
www.asahi-kasei.co.jp/	AKM Japan

audio ADC

audio CoDec

audio DAC

audio DSP

audio/video switches

class-D audio amplifiers

clock generators

data converter

digital audio interface

image processing

ISDN

memory - audio DAC with EEPROM

memory - serial EEPROM

networking and communications

portable/cellular phone

sample rate converters

touchscreen controllers

USB audio converters

video

AKxxx

Alantro

Alantro Communications

www.alantro.com/

Alcatel Lucent Microelectronics

(Used to be called Mietec Alcatel and later Alcatel. The Software and MEMS services of Alcatel Optronics Netherlands have been transfered to C2V.)

Headquarters

Alcatel Lucent Microelectronics N.V.
Excelsiorlaan 44-46
B-1930 Zaventem
Belgium
tel: +32-2-718-1811
info@alcatel.be

Registered Office

Alcatel Lucent Microelectronics N.V.
Westerring 15
B-9700 Oudenaarde
Belgium
tel: +32-55-33-2211

www.alcatel-lucent.com/

parent company

Widely recognized as an innovator and technology expert in the integration of hardware/software systems on semiconductors. It combines the strengths of Alcatel's advanced communications systems design teams with the mixed digital/analog ASIC expertise of the former Alcatel Mietec division. Pooling the systems expertise of the 10,000 engineers within Alcatel, the company has constructed a substantial library of re-usable intellectual property (IP) components. Levering this expertise, Alcatel Microelectronics is offering communications standards products to key players in the telecom, automotive and peripherals markets. The company operates globally with a network of sales and design centers located in the key markets of Asia Pacific, the USA and Europe. Those locations enable close customer contact, maintaining the corporate philosophy of client focus and customer driven design.

Old info:

Mietec was founded in 1983 by Bell Telephone, a Belgian subsidiary of Alcatel N.V. and GIMV, the Public Investment Company of Flanders.

Since January 1990 Mietec is a wholly owned subsidiary of Alcatel.

Manufacturer of USICs (User Specific Integrated Circuits) and ASSPs (Application Specific Standard Products).

Alchemy

(199904, Cadence's former MPU Design Unit. See: www.techweb.com/wire/story/TWB19990409S0007. 200802: WWW site seems to have gone.)

Austin, TX
USA

Focussed on microprocessor design.

Has license to MIPS technology. Will provide MIPS based SOC products to OEM's in the digital consumer marketplace.

Alcor Micro

(1997?)

Alcor Micro

www.alcormicro.com/

USB chips

AUxxx

Alesis Semiconductor

Alesis Semiconductor
12509 Beatrice St.
Los Angeles, CA 90066
USA
tel: +1-310-301-0780
fax: +1-310-306-1551
support@alesis-semi.com

www.alesis-semi.com/

General

Chip manufacturer, ADC, DAC, ADAT optical interface chips

ALi

(1993, spinoff from Acer, 1987)

Taiwan:

Acer Laboratories Inc.
11F, No. 45 Tung Hsing Road,
Taipei 110
Taiwan
tel: +886-2-8768-2800
fax: +886-2-8768-3030

USA:

Acer Laboratories Inc.,
525 E. Brokaw Road
San Jose, CA 95131
USA
tel: +1-408-544-3100
fax: +1-408-544-3135

www.ali.com.tw/eng/about/	General in English
www.ali.com.tw/	General in Chinese
www.ali.com.tw/eng/products/list.htm	Products
www.acerlabs.com/	USA
www.acer.com.tw/	Parent company
global.acer.com/	Parent company, USA

They make chipsets like M1217, M1219, M1429

PC system chipsets, PC controller chips

(The parent company Acer makes computers. It also makes components like motherboards, PC cases and CD-ROM drives under the brand name Aopen.)

In 1987, while the personal computer industry was blossoming worldwide, a group of computer technologists envisioned the critical role ASIC development would play in this emerging market. They formed a team dedicated to bringing their individual expertise in IC development, design, application and service to the PC industry. This was the beginning of Acer Laboratories Inc.

Through well over a decade as a major player in the PC market, ALi has pursued its goal of bringing value to PC system and motherboard manufacturers. ALi has successfully developed a talented and resourceful infrastructure to support complete product lines, highly efficient and flexible production, real-time customer service, and continuous technology integration. ALi has created innovative leading products including the first industry standard Super I/O controller, the first RISC based PC system chip set, the first 100MHz Socket 7 chipset and the first complete DVD solution. Multiple best-product awards have been awarded to the company, along with significant patents and software copyright registrations. In fact, throughout its years of dedication to the PC industry, ALi has developed one of the industry's richest PC-related Intellectual Property (IP) collections covering system, peripheral and multimedia devices.

Allayer

(1997, 200802: now part of Broadcom)
Allayer Technologies

www.broadcom.com/

ethernet and fiber optic networking chips

ALxxx

Allegro

(Formerly Sprague Semiconductor Group, now fully owned by the Sanken Electric Co. In 1989 they sold their CMOS 4000 family to R&E.)

Allegro MicroSystems Inc.
115 Northeast Cutoff
Box 15036
Worcester, MA 01615
USA
tel: +1-508-853-5000
fax: +1-508-853-3353
fax: +1-508-853-7861 or this?
tel: +44-932-253-355 - Europe

www.allegromicro.com/en/	general
www.allegromicro.com/en/Products/	products

discrete diode

discrete transistor

Hall-effect sensor

interface/drive IC

mixed-signal (analog and digital) chips

motor controller

motor drivers

peripheral power driver chips

power

signal processing chips

Axxxx, UC[A-Z]xxxx, UD[A-Z]xxxx, UL[A-Z]xxxx

Exclusive distributor in the USA is Nu Horizons, Roger Sligar <the1@mindspring.com>.

Alliance

(1985)

Alliance Semiconductor
San Jose, CA
USA

www.alsc.com/

General

DRAM, flash, graphics accelerators, SRAM

AS29Fxxxx

AS4Cxxxx

AS7Cxxxx

Allied Signal

Allied Signal Microelectronics (Technology Center?)

www.mtcsemi.com/

20020314: gone?

ASIC's, GPS chips, microprocessors

ALM

Advanced Logic Machines
Box 285
59123 Motala
Sweden
tel: +46-141-21-42-20
fax: +46-141-23-33-32

They design ASIC's.

Alpha Industries

Alpha Industries

www.alphaind.com/

diodes, FET's, GaAs MMICs, RF

AF[A-Z]xxx, SM[A-Z]xxxx

Alpha Semiconductor

(Founded 1983, bought by Sipex in 2001 or earlier. 200802: alpha-semi.com has gone. Sipex is now part of Exar it seems.)

Alpha Semiconductor
1031 Serpentine Lane
Pleasanton, CA 94566
USA
tel: +1-510-417-1391
fax: +1-510-417-1390

Alpha Microelectronics GmbH
Im Technologiepark 1
D-15236 Frankfurt (Oder)
Germany
tel: +49-335-557-1752
fax: +49-335-557-1759

www.exar.com/

general

DC/DC converter, diode, FET switch, op-amp, power controller, power MOSFET driver, temperature sensor, transistor, voltage reference, voltage regulator

A1069 - Telephone Switch IC

ASxxx/x

Alphatec

Alphatec

www.alphatec.com/

General

Do they make chips?

Alpine Micro

(200802: WWW-site has gone.)

Alpine Microsystems
307 Orchard City Drive, Suite 300
Campbell, CA 95008
USA
tel: +1-408-364-8000
fax: +1-408-364-8008

Founded in 1996.

They make a kind of multi-chip modules they call complex ICs, where two or more standard or custom ICs are interconnected together using a semiconductor metalization process to create a single IC.

Altera

Altera Corporation
2610 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, CA 95134
USA
tel: +1-408-894-7000
tel: +1-800-800-EPLD - Applications Hotline
tel: +1-408-894-7104 - Customer Marketing
tel: +1-408-894-7144 - Literature departement
fax: +1-408-944-0952

sos@altera.com	technical support
lit_req@altera.com	literature services

www.altera.com/

General

EPLD (gate array's)

Provides programmable logic devices and software development tools.

Since shipping the world's first CMOS programmable logic chip in 1984, Altera has remained at the forefront of programmable logic technology.

Today, Altera offers the broadest line of programmable devices that address high-speed, high-density, and low-power applications. This diversity of products provides optimum flexibility and ease-of-use both during the prototyping and the production phases.

Altera products serve a broad range of market areas including telecommunications and data communications, as well as computers and industrial applications. Altera sells its chips worldwide, with approximately one-half of its business in geographic areas outside of the United States.

Altima Communications

(200802: Seems to be bought by Broadcom.)

www.broadcom.com/

general

networking chips (ethernet)

Ambient Technologies

(a division of Intel)

www.ambient.com/	jumps to www.intel.com/
www.intel.com/	new owner

Modem chips (ADSL, V.90)

AMCC

(1979)
(Not to be confused with AMC that makes embedding tools)

Applied Micro Circuits Corporation
6195 Lusk Boulevard
San Diego, CA 92121-2793
USA
tel: +1-619-450-9333
tel: +1-800-755-2622
fax: +1-619-450-9885

compinfo@amcc.com

www.amcc.com/

General

ATM networking chips, clock drivers, FC networking chips, gate arrays, HIPPI networking chips, PC peripheral chips, PCI controllers, SONET networking chips, telecom chips

S3015A/S3016A - transmitter/receiver pair for SDH/SONET.

Sxxxx

AMD

(1969)

Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
901 Thompson Place
Box 3453
Sunnyvale, CA 94088-3453
USA
tel: +1-408-732-2400
tel: +1-800-538-8450

5204 E Ben White Boulevard
Austin, TX 78741
USA
tel: +1-512-462-4360
fax: +1-512-462-5975

Applications hotline & literature ordering:
tel: +1-800-2229323 option #2
fax: +1-800-2229323 option #1 -- FAXBACK.
tel: +1-408-7495703

tel: +1-800-2929AMD Support products engineering hotline USA
tel: +44-1800-891131 Support products engineering hotline UK
tel: +81-031-111129 Support products engineering hotline Japan

www.amd.com/gb-uk/

general

data controllers, EPROM, flash, gate arrays (PLD), microcontrollers, microprocessors, networking chips, wireless chips

AMxxxx and others

See also:

SHARC page

Analogic

See Advanced Analogic

Analog Integrations

See AIC.

Analog Microelectronics

Analog Microelectronics, Inc.
3150 De La Cruz Blvd., Suite 200
Santa Clara, CA 95054-2046
USA
tel: +1-408-988-2388
fax: +1-408-988-2489

info@analogmicro.com

www.analogmicro.com/

General

Specialist in Power Management IC Design, manufacturing.

Analog Systems

Analog Systems
Tucson, AZ
USA

Analogue Design Consultants

See Acapella

Anchor Chips

(Founded 1966? Part of Cypress now)

Used to make PCI and USB chips for PC's

ANxxxx

Andigilog

www.andigilog.com/

temperature sensors

Angstrem

www.angstrem.ru/

Ansaldo Semiconductors

(Called POSEICO after a management buy-out around 2001).

POSEICO S.p.A.
(POwer SEmiconductor Italian COrporation)
Italy

www.poseico.it/

general

Apache Systems

(200103: WWW site has gone.)

Apex

Apex Microtechnology Corporation
Tucson, AZ
USA
Power OpAmp's (and..)

www.teamapex.com/

amplifiers, DC/DC convertors

PAxx

SAxx

Aplio

www.aplio.com/

networking chips (internet appliance)

Applied Micro Circuits

See AMCC.

www.amcc.com/

APTEK Williams

(1988 went public, division of Williams Controls)

APTEK Williams Inc.
Deerfield Beach, FL
USA
tel: +1-954-421-8450

marketing@aptekw.com

www.aptekw.com/

20020314: gone?
20020414: still gone

ICs and thick film hybrid circuits for use in telecommunication equipment.

Our Key products are:

AMS2006LP	48 Volt, Central Office Quality Subscriber Line Interface Circuit (SLIC)
AMS2051	Trunk Interface Unit (TIU)
AMS2406	Low Voltage (PBX) SLIC
AMS3089	12/16kHz Metering Pulse (tax pulse) detector
AMS3144	Single Channel Caller ID (ANI) Hybrid
AMS3444	Four Channel ANI Circuit
AMS3501	50hZ Metering Pulse Detector

AMSxxxx

Aptos

(1993, no longer in business on 20010331)

Aptos Semiconductor Corporation
Santa Clara, CA
USA

http://www.aptos.com/

No longer in use

FIFO's, networking chips, SRAM

AP9Axxx, AP9Bxxx, AP32Mxxxx

ARC

(Means: Argonaut RISC Cores)

ARC International

USA

ARC
2099 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
USA
tel: +1-408-437-3400
fax: +1-408-437-3401

Europe

ARC
ARC House, The Waterfront
Elstree Road
Elstree, Herts, WD6 3BS
UK
tel: +44-20-8236-2838
fax: +44-20-8236-2801
sales@arc.com
support@arc.com

www.arc.com/	general
local	more

ARC International is an industry-leading developer of embedded user-customizable, high-performance 32-bit RISC/DSP processor cores, with integrated development tools, peripherals, RTOS and software. These integrated products and solutions are a result of the acquisitions of MetaWare, VAutomation and Precise Software Technologies. ARC's products include the ARCtangent(tm) user-customizable 32-bit RISC/DSP processor, the first USB 2.0 OTG high speed controller on the market and an 802.11 MAC and baseband multi-standard IP core. ARC provides software development and system software for ARM, PowerPC and MIPs processors as well as for its own ARCtangent processor family.

Arcus Technology

Part of Cypress Semiconductor since about 200006.

Arithmos

(1993)

Arithmos
2730 San Tomas Expressway, Suite 210
Santa Clara, CA 95051-0952
USA
tel: +1-408-982-4480
fax: +1-408-982-4481

www.arithmos.com/

20020314: gone?

Flat panel display driver chips

ADE2100, ADE2100V2, ADE2200, ADE2300

Arizona Microchip Technology

See Microchip

Arizona Microtek

(Founded 1985)

www.azmicrotek.com/

ASIC's, ECL line drivers, ECL logic chips, (old Motorola series)

AZ10Exx

AZ100Exxx

ARK Logic

(Started in 1993. 2008-03-06: Site is gone.)

(Majority share holder was ICS, now IDT (www.idt.com/))

www.idt.com/

current parent company

Integrated 2D and 3D graphics/video accelerators for PC

ARKxxxx

Ark Micro

Ark Microelectronics (Shenzhen) Ltd.
Rm 508-516, Luohu Science & Technology Centre, 85 Taining Rd.
Shenzhen, Guangdong, 518020
P.R.China
tel: +86-755-550-0159
fax: +86-755-553-0795
arkmicro@public.szptt.net.cn

www.arkmicro.com/

General

Ark Microelectronics (Shenzhen) Ltd is an ASIC design company in P.R.China.

The products are: Dual Port SRAMs (ARK7C005, 7C006, 7C007, fully compatible with IDT and Cypress's Products), MCU and RISC CPU cores.

ARM

(Started in 1990 as Advanced RISC Machines Limited. In 199804 the name was changed to ARM Ltd.)

ARM Ltd.
90 Fulbourn Road
Cambridge, CB1 9JN
UK

tel: +44-1223-400400	Europe and headquarter
tel: +49-89-608-75545	Germany
tel: +81-44-850-1301	Japan
tel: +1-408-399-5199	US
tel: +1-408-399-8854	faxback

info@arm.com

www.arm.com/	General
www.arm.com/Pro+Peripherals/	Info about current processor cores
infocenter.arm.com/help/index.jsp	Datasheets etc.
www.arm.com/products/DevTools/index.html	Development Systems from ARM
www.arm.com/CoInfo/PressRel/	Press Releases
www.acorn.com/	Old parent company
local	Chipdir's ARM page

ARM, an intellectual property (IP) provider, licenses high performance, low cost, power efficient RISC processors, peripherals and system chip designs to leading international electronics companies. ARM also provides the comprehensive support required to develop a complete system. ARMs microprocessor cores are rapidly becoming the volume RISC standard in such markets as portable communications, handheld computing, multimedia digital consumer and embedded solutions.

Product codes:

ARMxxx/x

Aromat

(2008-03-06: Seems to be bought by Panasonic.)

Aromat

pewa.panasonic.com/

Panasonic

Solid state relays

Array Microsystems

(1991)

Array Microsystems, Inc.
987 University Avenue, Suite #6
Los Gatos, CA 95032
USA
tel: +1-408-399-1505
fax: +1-408-399-1506
sales@array.com

arrayproducts.com/

General

Array offers a complete line of PCI Plug-n-Play MPEG encoding boards. VideoONE boards are based on Array's proprietary VideoFLOW chipset to ensure the highest digital results. VideoONE boards are implemented in market segments such as: video authoring, video editing, VideoCD recording, video surveillance, and Intranet video communication markets.

A77xxxx

ART

(Advanced Rendering Technology)

www.art-render.com/

graphics processors

ARTI

(2008-03-10: Site seems to have gone.)

Advance Reality Technology, Inc.
3F, No. 609, Sec. 1, Kuang-Fu Road
Hsin-Chu
Taiwan
tel: +886-3-5785104
fax: +886-3-5785094

Pager chips
AR5010	Ermes Decoder
AR5110	PocSag Decoder

Artist Graphics

(1982, now gone?)

www.artgraphics.com/

20010303: gone?

20020314: site now occupied by webdesign company

(BGA type) video processor chips

ASC Semiconductors

Hong Kong

www.asc-semiconductors.com/

20020314: gone?

crystals, diodes, passives

ASC Semiconductors

www.asc-semiconductors.com/

diodes, crystals

ASE

Advanced Semiconductor Engineering (ASE)

www.aseus.com/

20020314: gone?

Taiwanese company that provides IC assembly and IC test services.

Asea Brown Boveri

See BB

ASI

(See also the next entry)

See Austin

ASI

(See also the previous entry)

(Established 1979)

Advanced Semiconductor, Inc. (?)
7525 Ethel Avenue
North Hollywood, CA 91605-1912
USA
tel: +1-818-982-1200
tel: +1-800-423-2354 - Toll-free within the USA
fax: +1-818-765-3004

www.advancedsemiconductor.com/

They produce transistors and diodes that were obsoleted by others.

ASICOM

(2008-03-10: Site seems to have gone.)

ASICOM Technologies Ltd.
MATAM Industrial Park, Haifa 31905
Israel
tel: +972-4-8550449
fax: +972-4-8550441

ASICOM's design team of 8 designers specializes in mixed digital/analog ASICs especially for a large variety of detector interfaces and the related signal processing and conditioning.

ASICOM's main business is designing and selling ASIC components according to customers specifications at large quantities.

Asiliant

(New home since 200001 for some of the Chips and Technologies chips under license from Intel)

Asiliant Technologies
256 East Gish Road
San Jose, CA 95112
USA
tel: +1-408-467-0755
fax: +1-408-467-0750

www.asiliant.com/	General
www.asiliant.com/company.htm	About
www.asiliant.com/products.htm	Products

Located in Silicon Valley, Asiliant Technologies was founded by a group of former Chips and Technologies employees having a combined 50+ years of experience with the CHIPS products, suppliers, distributors, and customers. We are offering the industry standard Flat Panel/CRT controller family that has become so popular in the embedded marketplace.

Aspec

(Gone?)

Aspec Technology Inc.
Santa Clara or Sunnyvale, CA
USA

www.aspec.com/

20020314: can't be found

Founded in December 1991. In 1997 about 90 employees.

They make ASICs, based on their HDA (high density gate arrays), HDEA (high density embedded arrays) and HDC (high density standard cells) CMOS libraries.

Aspex

Headquarters

Aspex Semiconductor Limited
Aspex House
44/45 Oxford Street
High Wycombe
Buckinghamshire
HP11 2DJ
United Kingdom
T: +44-1494-558121
F: +44-1494-558016

USA Sales Office

Aspex Semiconductor Limited
1250 Oakmead Parkway
Suite 210
Sunnyvale
CA 94085-4037
USA
T: +1-408-501-8850
F: +1-408-501-8860

www.aspex-semi.com/

Fabless provider of high performance single chip DSP's. Also parallel processing specialist and IP and SoC supplier.

Associative Computing

(Site has been gone since 20010303 or earlier.)

Associate processor

Astec

(2008-03-06: Now seems to be part of Power Conversion/Emerson)

Astec Semiconductor
Milpitas, CA
USA

www.powerconversion.com/	general
www.powerconversion.com/products/	data sheets
www.emerson.com/	parent company

ATC

ATC Semiconductor Devices

www.atcsd.ru/

laser diodes

ATecoM

(1994)

Germany

www.atecom.de/

ATM networking chips

POLx, SHAPx, TAPx

Atelic

(2008-03-06: Site seems to have gone.)

Atelic Systems, Inc.

www.elsnet.org/orgs/2936.html	see here
www.procureinc.com/showParts.php/87	see here
whitepapers.americasnetwork.com/detail/ORG/990270632_357.html	see here

Provides high quality, cost effective DSP and mixed signal IC solutions for the telecommunication and networking equipment manufacturers.

Atheros

(Silicon Valley start-up founded by Stanford University academics)

Atheros Communications Inc.

www.atheros.com/	general
webreprints.djreprints.com/0000000000000000002043001.html	article

Has developed a special set of chips to help remove the roadblock of relatively slow speed and high cost of wireless networking for distances of about 100 feet.

Competitors:

Cisco
Intersil
Lucent

ATI Technologies

(Or ATI Research? They bought Tseng Labs. They were bought by AMD around 2005.)

ATI Technologies, Inc.
33 Commerce Valley Drive East
Thornhill, ON, L3T 7N6
Canada
tel: +1-905-882-2600 - Sales and Marketing
fax: +1-905-882-2620

ati.amd.com/	General, USA
ati.amd.com/products/index.html	About their chips

They make video cards but also sell chips to other OEM's.

Atmel

(1984)

Atmel Corp
2325 Orchard Parkway
San Jose, CA 95148
USA
tel: +1-408-441-0311
tel: +1-408-436-4333 - PLD Technical Support Hotline
tel: +1-800-365-3375
tel: +1-800-292-8635 - FaxBack
fax: +1-408-436-4200
fax: +1-408-436-4300

www.atmel.com/

General

local	Mailing list
local	More info about the AVR

CPLD gate arrays, data convertors, EEPROM, EPROM, flash, FPGA gate arrays, microcontrollers, serial EEPROMs, (Temic IC's)

ATS

(Part of Microchip since mid 1996.)
ASIC Technical Solutions (ATS)

Developed the QuickASIC technology for ASICs.

Since mid 1996, ATS is part of Microchip Technology (www.microchip.com/)

AT&T

AT&T Microelectronics
(American Telephone and Telegraph)
1090 E Duane Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94086
USA
tel: +1-408-522-5555
fax: +1-408-522-4401
tel: +1-800-372-2447

AT&T Microelectronics still is a manufacturer of chips. They are one of the IC vendors to Siemens Public Networks Group, for example. However, recently this part of AT&T was renamed "Lucent Technologies". Their WWW site is www.lucent.com/ now. On their new data sheets they have the Lucent logo already. I know, because I received one last week.

Rolf Lochbuehler - 20020313/jaap: Lucent Micro is called Agere Systems now, see www.agere.com/.

They sold NCR which is now called Symbios and part of LSILogic.
AT&T Global Information Systems (ATTGIS) will in future be called NCR again.

Auctor

(Since 1987, used to be ACC Micro)

Auctor Corporation
2401 Walsh Avenue, 2nd Floor
Santa Clara, CA 95051
USA
tel: +1-408-980-0622
fax: +1-408-980-0626

webmaster@auctorcorp.com

www.auctorcorp.com/

Chip sets

Manufacturer of low-power logic (LPL) controller chips for computer, communication and consumer applications.

PC system chips, peripheral controllers

ACCxxxx

AudioCodes

AudioCodes

www.audiocodes.com/

Packet voice networking

AudioCodes designs, develops and markets enabling technologies and products for voice over packet networks. AudioCodes? product line includes a selection of signal processors, VoIP communication boards, communications software and custom modules for OEM customers. AudioCodes is a voice compression leader and the key originator of the ITU G.723.1 standard for IP Telephony.

Audio Digital Imaging

See ADI

AudioLogic

(a division of Cirrus Logic)

www.cirrus.com/en/

A/D converters, D/A converters, DSP cores

Audio Processing Technology

Ireland?

www.aptx.com/

audio chips, CODECs

AUE

(2008-03-10: Site seems to have gone.)

Advanced Microelectronics (AµE)

Auravision

Auravision

www.auravision.com/

20010303: gone?

20020314: still gone

video processor chips

Product codes:
AnPxx
VxPxxx

Aureal

(1995)

Aureal

www.aureal.com/

20010303: gone?

20020314: still gone!

Audio chip: AU8820

Austin

(1988)

Austin Semiconductor, Inc. (ASI)

www.austinsemiconductor.com/

General

Monolithic memories and memory modules for use in applications with high reliability requirements.

DRAM, EEPROM, EPROM, flash, SRAM,

ASYxxxx, MT4Cxxxx, MTSCxxxx

Austria Mikro Systeme

See AMS

Authentec

www.authentec.com/

fingerprint sensor chips

Avago

(On 2005-12-01 this company was made out of the former Agilent Technologies Semiconductor Products Group.)

Avago Technologies

www.avagotech.com/

www.agilent.com/home/avagotechnologies.shtml

Avance Logic

Avance Logic
Taiwan

www.realtek.com.tw/	General	New?
www.avance.com/	General	old?

Audio chips, video processor chips

ALSxxx

Averlogic

(1996)

Averlogic Technologies, Inc.
6840 Via Del Oro Road, Suite 160
San Jose, CA 95119
USA
tel: +1-408-361-0400 - North America
fax: +1-408-361-0404
tel: +886-2-522-3082 - South East Asia

info@averlogic.com

sales@averlogic.com

www.averlogic.com/

general

Engaged in designing, manufacturing and marketing highly integrated IC's to perform digital signal processing across multiple platforms.

With our ever growing line up of chips, video data is transported between computers, televisions, multi-media devices, and convergence appliances for current and emerging markets.

AL100/110/128	VGA to NTSC/PAL
AL250/251	NTSC/PAL to VGA
AL300	LCD controller for LCD monitor or television applications. Up to 1280X1024
AL422	3M-bit Frame buffer
AL875	High speed 3-channel ADC

AVG

AVG Semiconductors
363 St. Paul Boulevard
Carol Stream, IL 60188
USA
tel: +1-800-AVG-SEMI
fax: +1-630-510-252

AVX

www.avx.com/

general

capacitors, passives, resonators, SAW filters

Aware

Bedford, MA
USA

www.aware.com/

ICs and software for broadband (xDSL) access networks. Co-development with Analog Devices.

Award

(They merged with Phoenix during 199809.)

Award Software Inc.
tel: +1-415-968-4433 - Ann Shen or Kerry Butler

www.phoenix.com/en/home	general
www.phoenix.com/	general
scan.esupport.com/	for upgrades
scan.esupport.com/?CFID=2132278&CFTOKEN=14777168	for upgrades

BIOS-ROM's, but no real chips

Click on the word BIOS for more information.

Axeon

www.axeon.com/

Microprocessors

Axis Communications

(Founded 1984)

www.axis.com/	General
developer.axis.com/	Data

'ETRAX' chipsets, RISC microprocessors

Aztech

(Founded 1986)

Aztech

www.aztech.com.sg/

General

audio chips

AZTxxxx

www.ami.com/	general
www.ami.com/amibios/	general
www.megatrends.com/	general (old)

www.amictechnology.com/	general	needs Java enabled?
www.amic.com.tw/	general	needs Java enabled?

AML1001	MPEG-1 audio/video decoder
AML1002	Enhanced MPEG-1 audio/video decoder with karaoke

www.austriamicrosystems.com/	General
www.amsint.com/	General, jumps to the first URL
asic.amsint.com/	Technical support

local	ASIC designers
www.boin-gmbh.com/linkpage/indicm.htm	BOIN's Semiconductor Linkpage
www.datasheetlocator.com/	Datasheet Locator by NetComponents
sdw.bgs.nu/	Semiconductor datasheets on the Web
www.edtmag.com/	Electronic Distribution Today
www.eenet.com/semi/man.htm	EENet Semiconductor Manuf's WWW sites
www.semiresources.com/	List of many semiconductor manufacturers' home pages
www.stengel.net/ic.htm	Another list (from 1998)

local	386 page
local	486 page
local	586 page (Pentium)
local	8051 page
local	80x86 page

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