Provides database of suppliers for semiconductors. Includes catalogs, technical information, and supplier contact information.
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Manufacturer of fiber optic and optical components and products including fiber optic couplers and isolators, spherical and aspheric mirrors, optical prisms, collimators and beam splitters. Products are sold to the telecommunications industry. T...
www.acphotonics.com
Manufacturer of fabless antifuse-based semiconductor components, specializing in field programmable gate array ICs; and developer of associated development system software and programming hardware. FPGAs include SX-A high-performance low-power d...
www.actel.com
Provider of advanced integrated circuit solutions for wireless data, high-density storage and multi-service networking applications.
www.agere.com
Provider of services and equipment in test and measurement, semiconductor products, healthcare solutions and chemical analysis.
www.agilent.com
Manufacturer of controller ICs, hybrid ICs and audio/video/cathode ray tube/communications ICs. Products are sold to tape drive, printer, copier & scanner manufacturers and the telecommunications industry. This company was capitalized by private...
www.aha.com
Manufacturer of single chip USB (universal serial bus) hub controllers and keyboard/hub controllers. Products are sold to computer industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.alcormicro.com
Manufacturer of custom thick film hybrid microcircuits. Provider of contract assembly of printed circuit boards. Products and services are provided to cable TV stations, and the consumer products, medical, and other industries. This company was ...
www.aldenscientific.com
Manufacturer of hall-effect sensor ICs, bipolar power ICs, smart power ICs, bipolar linear ICs and mixed-signal ICs. Provider of custom IC design and manufacturing services. Products and services are provided to the computer peripherals, industr...
www.allegromicro.com
Manufacturer, developer, designer, and marketer of high-performance, high-bandwidth silicon products for optical networks including, integrated circuits for communications, test equipment. Parent/holding company with high-tech units involved in ...
www.amcc.com
Manufacturer of Ethernet hub, CMOS, NMOS, bipolar, filter and memory ICs; flash memory cards; and motherboards; and developer of related Windows-based processor recognition and source code software. Manufacturer of serial communication, FDDI and...
www.amd.com
Manufacturer of ceramic substrates for printed circuit boards in low and high frequency applications. This company also provides ceramic machining and resistor trimming services and sells chip resistors and attenuators. Products and services are...
www.amitron.com
Semiconductor company that develops, manufactures and markets integrated circuits (ICs) used in signal-processing applications.
www.analog.com
Manufacturer of specialty laminate substrates for rigid and flexible printed wiring board fabrication. Products consist of woven and nonwoven substrates impregnated with polyimide, cyanate ester, high temperature epoxy, phenolic, polyester and P...
www.arlonmed.com
Provider of high-speed, low-power and high-density silicon-proven, physical intellectual property (IP) components for the design and manufacture of complex integrated circuits (ICs).
www.artisan.com
Manufacturer of solar energy modules and photovoltaic cells. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.asepv.com
Provider of custom assembly and testing services specializing in micro circuits, semiconductors, memory devices and multichip memory modules. Services are provided primarily to the military. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.austinsemiconductor.com
Manufacturer of integrated circuits that enable broadband digital transmission of voice, data and video content to and throughout the home and within the business enterprise. The company's products enable the high-speed transmission of data over...
www.broadcom.com
Manufacturer of electronic fuction controls, high voltage cables and SMT equipment for printed circuit boards. Parent/holding company with a high-tech operating unit involved in welding equipment. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.bugo.com
Manufacturer of commercial and military diodes, including zener, schottky, current regulator, temperature compensated, and switching diodes.
www.cdi-diodes.com
Supplier of radio frequency (RF), wireless, optoelectronic and fiber-optic semiconductor products.
www.cel.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors and wireless subsystems to power instruments.
www.celeritek.com
Manufacturer of discrete semiconductors including transistors; current limiting, zener and other diodes; rectifiers; bridge-rectifiers; SCRs; and triacs in leaded and surface mounted styles. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.centralsemi.com
Provider of custom integrated circuit manufacturing and prototyping services. Products include rapid-turn ASIC products and custom laser programmable gate array products. Products and services are sold to multiple industries. This company was ca...
www.chipexpress.com
Distributor of semiconductor die and provider of value-added die processing for multichip modules and other unencapsulated die applications and packaging capabilies.
www.chipsupply.com
Manufacturer of clock generators and video and audio integrated circuits and multimedia stereo audio codes for the multimedia market. Video ICs are PC-TV encoders which enable PC graphics output to connect to standard TVs. Products are sold to t...
www.chrontel.com
Manufacturer of precision linear circuits and advanced mixed-signal chips. Products enable system-level applications in mass storage, audio and presicion data conversion. Parent/holding company with a high-tech operating unit that manufactures I...
www.cirrus.com
Manufacturer of the CL7000 Laser Processed Logic Device(tm) series of silicon fabless semiconductors. Chips are based upon large arrays of macrocells, with each macrocell containing a product-term and array for combined functions and sequential ...
www.clear-logic.com
Manufacturer of microcircuits and backplane assemblies. Products are sold to the telecommunication, computer, medical, and automotive industries.
www.cmac.com
Manufacturer of hybrid semiconductors. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.cmodules.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors for applications in PC modems, software modems and other products for desktop, notebook and handheld computer applications. This company was capitalized by corporate investment.
www.conexant.com
Manufacturer of fabless digital communication processors. Developer of communications programming interface software and communications development environment software. The software runs on multiple platforms. Products are sold to multiple indu...
www.cportcorp.com
Manufacturer of sapphire single crystals, multigrain silicon crystals and titanium sapphire laser rods. The company's products utilize a patented HEM (heat exchange method) process. HEM research and development is also conducted. Products are so...
www.crystalsystems.com
Manufacturer of ceramics, quartz, oscillator, lead zironite titanate (PZT) and surface wave (SAW) components for telecommunications and other applications. Products are sold to cellular industry. This company was capitalized by venture capital.
www.ctscorp.com
Manufacturer of mixed-signal, specialty semiconductors for broadband telecommunications, wireless handsets, cellular base stations, secure Internet communications, networking, servers, data storage and more.
www.dalsemi.com
Designer and manufacturer of regulator ICs and proprietary computer chip stacking ICs that allow a user to pack large amounts of memory into the small space required by high performance computers and electronic systems. Memory technology can be ...
www.dense-pac.com
Manufacturer of semiconductor bonding tools, including bonding wedges and standard wire feed angles. Products are sold to the microelectronic industry.
www.deweyl.com
Manufacturer of digital cameras, microscope stands, microsensor computer controls and microscope couplers for video and still picture cameras. Products are sold to medical and academic institutions.
www.diaginc.com
Manufacturer and distributor of semiconductor devices. Products include PhotoSCRs, rectifiers, zener diodes, switching and superfast diodes, rectifier assemblies, transistors and transient voltage suppressors. Products are electrical components ...
www.diodes.com
Manufacturer of leadframes for use in IC assembly. Products are sold to the semiconductor industry.
www.dynacraft.com
Producer of titanium wire and bar products, high speed steel powder and plasma spray powder and nickel base alloys. The plasma spray powder alloys are used as a coating for high temperature applications. Products are primarily sold to the medica...
www.dynamet.com
Manufacturer of enhanced DRAMs and enhanced synchronous DRAMs. Products are sold to computer industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.edram.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors, liquid crystal displays, quartz devices, visual instruments and device-applied products.
www.eea.epson.com
Provider of contracted electronics manufacturing and engineering services. Parent/holding company with a unit involved in the manufacture of ultraviolet measuring devices. Products and services are sold to the electronics industry.
www.eitinc.com
Manufacturer of transceivers for the wireless transmission and reception of voice, data and video communications at millimeterwave frequencies. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment and corp...
www.endwave.com
Researcher and developer of thin film materials including amorphous silicon and copper indium diselenide. Also a manufacturer of photovoltaic modules. The company is also a provider of consulting and manufacturing design services. Products and s...
www.epv.net
Manufacturer of PC IC audio, multimedia, modem and video chips. Products are sold to the personal computer industry.
www.esstech.com
Manufacturer of standard, custom and semi-custom linear and digital integrated circuits using bipolar, 12L and CMOS technology for telecommunications, industrial and power controls, data acquisition, computer interface, hybrid ICs, metal oxide s...
www.exar.com
Manufacturer of alternative energy systems specializing in solar heat exchangers, solar hot water heaters and thermal energy storage ice banks. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.fafco.com
Exclusive U.S. distributor of gallium arsenide, microwave and lightwave semiconductors for the parent company in Japan. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.fcsi.fujitsu.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors and other electronic products and accessories.
www.fujitsu.co.jp
Manufacturer of a wide range of semiconductor and other advanced electronic components. Semiconductor products include network/communication, ASICs, SPARClite, microSPARC, interconnect and memory products. Electronic components include keyboards...
www.fujitsumicro.com
Provider of GaAs (gallium arsenide) foundry services and specialty semiconductor materials, devices, integrated circuits and solutions to the wireless, telecommunications and fiber-optic communications markets.
www.gcsincorp.com
Researcher, developer and manufacturer of periodically-poled lithium niobate materials for non-linear applications. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment, venture capital and corporate inves...
www.gemfire.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors that include power rectifiers, transient voltage suppressors and small signal transistors and diodes.
www.gensemi.com
Manufacturer of transistors for use in RF silicon and microwave communications devices. Products are sold to the telecommunications industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.ghz.com
Provides database of suppliers for semiconductors. Includes catalogs, technical information, and supplier contact information.
electronic-components.globalspec.com
Manufacturer of germanium transistors, rectifiers, photodiodes, photodetectors, tunnel diodes and silicon unijunction transistors. The products have a number of end-use functions, including use in output signal devices, lightwave detectors and p...
www.gpd-ir.com
Designer and marketer of encryption and compression devices and related software libraries. Products are used in storage systems, firewalls and routers. Parent holding company with a high-tech operating unit involved in manufacturing telecommuni...
www.hifn.com
Manufacturer of monolithic microwave integrated circuits and assemblies. Products are sold to the electronics industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.hittite.com
Manufacturer of SIMOX (a form of Silicon-on-Insulator technology) substrate material, used in the fabrication of silicon wafers. Also, a manufacturer of oxygen implantation equipment. Products are sold to semiconductor manufacturers and to the g...
www.ibis.com
Specialist semiconductor and component resellers servicing the electronics industry worldwide.
www.icexcess.com
Manufacturer of programmable logic devices. Products are sold to the semiconductor industry. This company was capitalized by private investment and corporate investment.
www.ictpld.com
Manufacturer of clock driver ICs and radio frequency wireless communications equipment. Provider of IC fabrication services. Products and services are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.icworks.com
Provider of innovative semiconductor solutions to designers in communications and computing. Products include communications memories (FIFOs and multi-ports), networking devices, RISC and x86 microprocessors, logic and clock management products....
www.idt.com
Manufacturer of telecommunications, dynamic RAM and microprocessor ICs; smart SIPMOS; power MOSFETs; power semiconductors; and hall-effect sensors. Some products are semicustom. Products are sold to the telecommunications industry.
www.infineon.com
Developer and designer of computer processor products, networking and communication products, and computing enhancement products; and provider of Internet hosting and community services. Multimedia products include smart video boards with video ...
www.intel.com
Manufacturer of fuel cells. The fuel cells, through a chemical reaction, convert chemical energy into electric energy. Products are sold to the energy industry.
www.internationalfuelcells.com
Manufacturer of semiconductor products in analog, mixed-signal, power and radiation-hardened technology.
www.intersil.com
Manufacturer of gallium arsenide and GaAs lasers, crystals and epitaxial wafers. Products are sold to the military and to commercial industries. This company was capitalized by venture capital.
www.iqep.com
Manufacturer of faraday rotators and rotator mirrors, optical isolators and other optical devices. Products are sold to the laser and telecommunications industries, and to research and development facilities.
www.isowave.com
Manufacturer of memory and multi-technology, modular subsystems for the industrial, networking and telecommunications markets. Products include DRAM, SRAM, DSP and custom memory and processor subassemblies. This company was capitalized by privat...
www.iwcp.com
Manufacturer of motion control integrated circuits, power MOSFETs, insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs), power semiconductors and smart power semiconductors, including thyristors, rectifiers and diodes. Parent/holding company with a high-t...
www.ixys.com
Manufacturer of light sources for information display and miniature incandescent and fluorescent lamps. Products are sold to the automobile, aerospace and computer industries.
www.jkllamps.com
Manufacturer of epitaxial GaAs wafers and small format, high information content active matrix liquid crystal displays. Products are used to enhance the delivery of voice, video and data for wireless telecommunications. Products are sold to the ...
www.kopin.com
Manufacturer of aluminum substrates for use in manufacturing hard disks. Products are sold to the Computer peripheral industry.
www.kpi.com
Manufacturer of ceramic packages for microprocessors, ASICs and microwave/RF devices; and provider of assembly services for semiconductor devices, solar photovoltaic panels, recrystallized gemstones and ceramic consumer products. Products and se...
www.kyocera.com
Manufacturer of laser diodes, gallium arsenide ingots and wafers, epitaxial wafers, gallium arsenide lasers, injection lasers, light emitting diodes, detectors, PINFETs, which are detectors for fiber optics and fiber optic transmitters and recei...
www.laserdiode.com
Manufacturer of current and voltage transducers for a variety of traction and industrial applications. Galvanically isolated current and voltage transducers are available in three classes: closed loop, open loop, and high performance. Also a man...
www.lemusa.com
Manufacturer of electronic components including ICs, amplifiers, regulators, converters, filters and modulators. Specific products include high-performance linear ICs; operational, instrumentation and audio amplifiers; voltage regulators, refere...
www.linear.com
Manufacturer of LED lamps, IR LEDs, LED displays, semiconductor detectors, notebook AC systems, switching power supplies and computer power supplies. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.liteon.com
Manufacturer of static RAM, controller and digital signal processing and CMOS integrated circuits. Products are sold to computer industries This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.logicdevices.com
Manufacturer of power modules and transistors. The electronic devices are primarily used in the telecommunications industry but also have military and commercial applications. The power modules are used in conjunction with base stations for comm...
www.macom.com
Manufacturer of automated wafer handling systems and silicon substrates used to make semiconductors. Products include gallium arsenide, beryllia, ceramic, sapphire, ferrite, alumina, composite, plastic, quartz polished, graphite, fused silica, g...
www.mactronix.com
Manufacturer of mixed-signal and digital integrated circuits. The ICs operate at very high speeds in the 100 MHz to 1GHz range. The company also manufactures matching read-channel preamplifiers for both thin film and magneto resistive read heads...
www.marvell.com
Manufacturer of solar light reflectors, energy conservation material, solar window film and exotic microwave packaging. The reflectors and film are used for energy conservation and the microwave packaging is used for microwaveable food. Products...
www.matsci.com
Manufacturer of CMOS semiconductors. Parent/holding company with a high-tech operating unit involved in semiconductors and related products. Products are sold to the electronics industry. This company was capitalized by private investment and ve...
www.maxim-ic.com
Provider of electronics radiation-hardening services to companies whose products will be sent into space. Provider of product and materials testing services through a full failure-analysis laboratory. Manufacturer of FPGAs and ASICs, graphics ac...
www.maxwell.com
Manufacturer and developer of fabless semiconductors for use in Internet infrastructures. Products are provided to server, communication and storage markets. This company was capitalized by venture capital.
www.mellanox.com
Manufacturer of silicon polished and epitaxial wafers used to make integrated circuits. Products are sold to the Electronics industry.
www.memc.com
Manufacturer of heat sinks. Products are sold to the electronics industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.metalsgroup.com
Provider of process and foundry capabilities which include CMOS/DMOS/Bipolar/NMOS/PMOS processes.
www.micrel.com
Manufacturer of the PICmicro(R) family of 8-bit RISC-based microcontrollers with OTP, Enhanced FLASH, EEPROM and ROM memory technologies; serial EEPROMs and related specialty memory products; MicroID passive RFID tag chips; and KEELOQ(R) code ho...
www.microchip.com
Provider of a variety of semiconductors including obsolete material. These devices can be provided in bare die or wafer form as well as packaged in a wide variety of packages does all electrical and environmental testing.
www.mincotech.com
Manufacturer and integrator of DRAMs, SRAMs, ASSPs, flash memories, memory modules, PC cards, gate and embedded cell arrays, microcontrollers, ASICs, image compression ICs, microprocessors, data links, contact image sensors, optoelectronic produ...
www.mitsubishichips.com
Manufacturer of monolithic memory ICs and modules. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment and venture capital.
www.mosaicsemi.com
Manufacturer of CMOS circuits and SRAM, DRAM, flash memory and DRAM memory modules. Products are sold to the computer, cd-rom and disk drive industries. This company was capitalized by private investment, venture capital and corporate investment...
www.moselvitelic.com
Developer and manufacturer of microcontroller and microprocessor products for the consumer, networking and computing, transportation and wireless communications markets. Products include microcomputer systems, cache memory devices, diodes, opera...
www.mot.com
Manufacturer of voltage controlled crystal oscillators designed for phase-locked loops for clock recovery and frequency synthesis, covering the 40 kHz to 160 MHz range. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.mti-milliren.com
Designer, manufacturer, and marketer of advanced semiconductor devices that expedite network systems' interconnectivity. Products utilize the company's patented Content Addressable Memory (CAM) technology to quicken message routing within global...
www.musicsemi.com
Developer of enhancements for existing semiconductor, integrated circuit and other electronic component products.
www.national-scientific.com
Manufacturer of CPUs, semiconductors, amplifiers, communication controllers, radio transceivers, electromechanical regulators, temperature sensors, voltage to frequency converters, analog-to-digital devices, memory and expansion boards and LAN c...
www.national.com
Manufacturer of hybrid microcircuits. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.nationalhybrid.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors, electron devices, communications products, computer peripherals and computers.
www.necel.com
Manufacturer of multimedia accelerator solutions. The products use high-performance silicon technology that integrates large DRAM memory with analog and logic circuitry to provide a multimedia soloution on a single chip. The MagicGraph 128 famil...
www.neomagic.com
Manufacturer of microelectronics, telecommunications and office electronics products for the communications industry.
www.okisemi.com
Manufacturer of power semiconductors and discrete and power hybrid circuits. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by venture capital.
www.omnirel.com
Manufacturer of a wide range of high performance 486 desktop chipsets which include adaptive writeback cache, local bus support, integration and power management applications. Manufacturer of desktop and notebook chipsets and audio, video and gr...
www.opti.com
Supplier of advanced optoelectronic, semiconductor products and specialized CAE software.
www.optotek.com
Research and development organization specializing in photovoltaic cells. The company is also the parent of high-tech units involved in the energy and photonics industries.
www.ovonic.com
Producer of single wafer process quartzware for use in semiconductors. Products are sold to the defense, aerospace, medical and other industries.
www.pacificquartz.com
Exclusive US distributor of a wide range of electronic and electro-mechanical components, subassemblies, computer products, medical x-ray/radiation products, global positioning products, transistors and arrays and audio components. Products are ...
www.panasonic.com
Manufacturer of computer memory modules, including SDRAM, DRAM, DIMM and SIMM modules. Distributor of computer peripherals. Products are sold to computer industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.pdpsys.com
Manufacturer of integrated circuits for wireless and satellite communications. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.peregrine-semi.com
Manufacturer of high-performance ICs including memory and microprocessor ICs. Products are sold to the defense, telecommunications, and computer industries.
www.performance-semi.com
Manufacturer of high-performance interface integrated circuits used in electronic systems. ICs include interface logic, switches and clock management. These ICs transfer route and time electrical signals among a system's microprocessor, memory a...
www.pericom.com
Developer and marketer of image processing chips, controller boards and image processing software tools, print utilities and application development tools. Products include printer, multifunction, scanner and copier controllers. Products have ap...
www.pixelmagic.com
Manufacturer of controller chips for flat-panel displays. Products have applications in HDTV and DTV. The company has expertise in high speed digital design, mixed signal processing, video processing, system on a chip design, product planning an...
www.pixelworks.com
Manufacturer of high-voltage analog integrated circuits which convert AC to DC. Products are used in consumer and industrial electronics. Products are sold to OEMs and merchant power supply manufacturers with a focus on high volume power supply ...
www.powerint.com
Manufacturer of ball grid array component/tray handling inspection systems. Products are sold to the electronics industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.pptvision.com
Provider of dummy componentd for pick-and-place machine setup and calibration, process testing, solder training, education and rework practice.
practicalcomponents.com
Manufacturer of rectifiers; thyristors; diodes; Darlington, power, high voltage and bipolar transistors; power semiconductors; and hybrid semiconductors. This company is a joint venture between General Electric Co. and Mitsubishi Electric Corpor...
www.pwrx.com
Manufacturer of high density programmable logic integrated circuits, field programmable gate arrays (FPGAs). Developer of design software. Products are sold to electronics industry. This company was capitalized by private investment, venture cap...
www.quicklogic.com
Designer of chip to chip communications technology which enables communication between semiconductor memory devices and processors and controllers. Technology is integrated into DRAM chips and the logic devices that control them. The Rambus memo...
www.rambus.com
Manufacturer of system-on-chip (SoC) integrated circuits. The MoNET(tm) suite of Voice-over-Packet processors allows service providers to transport video, data, and voice communications over any packet-based network. This company was capitalized...
www.realchip.com
Manufacturer of radio frequency integrated circuits for wireless communication including cellular and cordless telephony. Products include modulators, quadrature demodulators, LNA/mixers, and more.
www.rfmd.com
Specialist in bipolar transistors, discrete ICs, FETs, FPGAs, logic ICs, ASICs, MOS, memory ICs, optoelectronics, peripherals and video processors.
www.rohm.com
Manufacturer of electronics, chemicals, machinery and provider of financial services.
www.samsung.com
Manufacturer of memory,TFT-LCD, ASICs, MCUs and other semiconductor products.
www.samsungsemi.com
Manufacturer of power supplies and semiconductors. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.sanrex.com
Exclusive US distributor of NI-CD, NI-MH, lithium ion, lithium and amorphous solar cells, battery chargers and battery packs; and provider of related packaging services. Products and services are provided to OEMs and the retail GE/SANYO brand. P...
www.sanyobatteries.com
Manufacturer of single crystals, semiconductor grade silicon ingots, epitaxial wafers and polished wafers. Products are sold to semiconductor industry.
www.sehamerica.com
Manufacturer of semiconductor products for communication, audio visual and computer applications.
www.sel.sony.com
Manufactures Discrete Semiconductors and analog and digital Integrated Circuits (ICs, Chips) for audio, video, automotive, consumer, mobile, multimedia and wireless communications markets.
www.semiconductors.philips.com
Manufacturer of diodes, rectifiers and custom hybrid microelectronics. Products are sold to defense industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.sensitron.com
Manufacturer of CODEC and mixed signal integrated circuits. Products are sold to the Computer hardware industry. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.sigmatel.com
Manufacturer, designer and developer of high performance radio-frequency ICs for use in cellular phones, digital microwave radios, wireless LANs, cable TV receivers and other digital communications products. Products are based on silicon-on-insu...
www.siliconwave.com
Manufacturer of line/driver receivers and converter integrated circuits, display drivers, interface ICs, hybrid semiconductors and arrays and power management products. Provider of custom monolithic integrated circuit design services. Products a...
www.sipex.com
Manufacturer of silicon wafers. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.sitix.com
Manufacturer of MOS/VLSI chips for personal computers and embedded control systems. Products include input/output chips/devices for disk drive control, communications interface, power management and other PC motherbaord functions; and transceive...
www.smsc.com
Manufacturer of surface mount ICs and provider of contract electronics manufacturing services, including printed circuit board design, prototyping, layout, assembly and testing. Also a provider of project management, RF and wireless design and r...
www.solectron.com
Manufacturer of power semiconductors, hybrids and resistor products. Products include transistors, rectifiers, smart power arrays, semiconductor chips, chip carriers, stud cases, copper and steel flatpacks, diodes, microcircuits, thick film hybr...
www.solitrondevices.com
Manufacturer of semiconductor ICs including SRAM, CCDs, LCDs, amplifier, infrared receiver, microwave serial/optical communications, data communications and multimedia. Products are sold to OEMs and industrial distributors.
www.sony.com
Manufacturer of memory products including menory boards and DRAM products. Products are sold to the pc and computer electronics industries. This company was capitalized by corporate investment.
www.spectek.com
Manufacturer of high-power laser diodes, fiber-coupled diode lasers, integrated diode laser units, microprocessor-controlled diode laser units and related accessories. This company was capitalized by venture capital.
www.splasers.com
Manufacturer of single power supply small erase-block flash memory components, as well as two-power supply MTP(tm) (many-time-programmable) flash products and compact-flash cards for digital cameras. Products are sold to personal computer indust...
www.ssti.com
Manufacturer of DMOS power transistors, HVCMOS, BICMOS and PWM integrated circuits. Products are sold to multiple industries. This company was capitalized by private investment and venture capital.
www.supertex.com
Fabless semiconductor company using the intellectual property developed and licensed by ASIC Designs.
www.tachyonsemi.com
Manufacturer of discrete semiconductors, specializing in thyristors. Products include silicon controlled rectifiers, triacs, SIDACS, diacs and transient surge protectors including modules. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.teccor.com
Manufacturer of electonics ranging from computer systems, to cable modems, to telecommuncations systems, to copiers and fax machines.
www.toshiba.com
Manufacturer of VLSICs; and signal, microwave, MOS-LSI and power semiconductors. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.toshiba.com
Provider of IC design and manufacturing services and specialty foundry services.
www.towersemi.com
Manufacturer of GaAs, amplifier, comparator, hybrid, multiplexer/demultiplexer, array and receiver and communications ICs; and provider of custom IC manufacturing and design engineering services. Parent/holding company with high-tech operating u...
www.tqs.com
Manufacturer and designer of semiconductor components including silicon chips, for advanced telecommunications applications used in transmission equipment for E3, DS3, SONET/SDH and ATM technology. Products are sold to the telecommunications, da...
www.transwitch.com
Manufacturer of custom deployable spacecraft equipment such as reflectors, solar arrays and booms. Products are sold to the civil, defense, and commercial aerospace industries.
www.trw.com
Manufacturer of semiconductors for the electronics industry which include diodes, rectifiers, bridges and transient voltage suppressors.
www.tscus.com
Manufacturer of obsolete semiconductor products which we make available in commercial, industrail and military grade levels from simple 2-terminal, discrete devices to ASICs.
www.twilighttechnology.com
Manufacturer of ultra clean gas delivery systems used in semiconductor processing applications. This company was capitalized by private investment.
www.uctnow.com
Manufacturer of RF power semiconductors, LDMOS, bipolar, and semiconductor materials and devices for use in wireless power amplifiers for cellular infrastructure systems. Company also does research and development on semiconductor wafer fabricat...
www.ultrarf.com
Manufacturer of universal remote controls for the operation of any infrared remote controlled device. The company also develops a ROM chip for the remote control units which enables the programming of up to 500 infrared codes into a unit. The co...
www.universalelectronicsus.com
Manufacturer of microprocessors, DRAMs, SRAMs, transistors, power semiconductors, RSICs, LCDs and linear and CMOS transistors. Products are sold to multiple industries.
www.usa.samsungsemi.com
Manufacturer of very large scale integrated chips. Supplier of semi-custom and military-standard VLSI circuits and custom circuit card assemblies. Products and services are sold to the aerospace and defense industries.
www.utmc.com
Manufacturer of quartz crystals and oscillators, piezoelectric products, polarization rotators, retardation plates, crystalline prisms and windows; and provider of fractional wavelength sapphire fabrication services. Piezoelectric products inclu...
www.valpeyfisher.com
Manufacturer of discrete semiconductor products including low-to-medium current power rectifiers, transient voltage suppressors, diodes and small signal and switching transistors. Products are used in home appliances, consumer electronics, autom...
www.vishay.com
Manufacturer and designer of high-bandwidth communications and automatic test equipment (ATE) integrated circuits. Products include digital and analog gigabit Ethernet, optoelectronic, fibre channel, ATE, ATM and Sonet gallium arsenide and gate ...
www.vitesse.com
Manufacturer of video networking systems are based on the MPEG-2 video encoder chip, VW2000, which is developed and marketed buy VWEB for Digital Entertainment and Video over IP (Internet Protocol) applications. In addition, the VW2000 MPEG-2 En...
www.vwebcorp.com
Manufacturer of heat dissipation products. The products include low powered and high powered heat sinks; and multichip module, surface mount, board-level stamped, extruded, high fin density and bonded fin heat sinks. The company also manufacture...
www.wakefield.com
Developer of field programmable gate array (FPGA) software. Manufacturer of field programmable gate arrays. Software runs on XWindows and OSF Motif for SPARC and compatible workstations and Microsoft Windows for IBM 386 and 486 systems and HP700...
www.xilinx.com
Manufacturer of musical instruments, audio/visual products, semiconductors and other computer-related products, sporting goods and industrial robots.
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Manufacturer and designer of voltage regulators, amplifiers, controller IC's, MOSFET, magnetic sensors, current sensors, diodes, transistors and semiconductors, including linear integrated circuits. Products are sold to multiple industries. This...
www.zetex.com
Manufacturer of microprocessors and microcontrollers. Provider of integrated circuit prototyping and design services. Products and services are sold to the computer, manufacturing, and engineering industries.
www.zilog.com
Manufacturer of digital filtering and vector signal microprocessors and software, used for digital video and audio applications enabled by compression and for speeding up the processing of digital signals. Products include JPEG codecs, MPEG vide...
www.zoran.com
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The role of the semiconductor in society today has changed everything. They are the heart and soul of computers, radios and anything else that uses radio waves or is in any way computerized. Semiconductor components made from silicon tend to be the most common. Silicon is one of the most common elements, being one of the ingredients in sand and quartz.
Due to the rise of the semiconductor, manufacturing companies began to appear to meet the rising demand of these new components. These little devices made an appearance in phones, radios and even the earliest computers. Consider the following points when thinking about the semiconductor industry:
1. While silicon is the most common semiconductor material, other materials such as Zinc and Germanium work well
2. Semiconductors do not have a single purpose; CPUs, RAM and graphic accelerators all make use of semiconductor technology
3. All devices that contain a semiconductor are semiconductor devices
Action Steps
The best contacts and resources to help you get it done
Purchase silicon to use in your semiconductor device
Silicon is the most common of the semiconductor materials. Silicon creates a latticework, which becomes a silvery, metallic like substance. Silicon is an insulator and doesn't allow for the conduction of electricity, which is why added impurities are necessary to increase the conductivity of the semiconductor, a process otherwise known as 'doping.'
I recommend: If you're considering building your own semiconductor, silicon is the most important piece of the equation. To purchase silicon wafers, check out Cemat Silicon for a selection of wafers ready for semiconductor production. Nova Electronic Materials is another great place to look for silicon and other semiconductor equipment.
Buy pre-made semiconductors for your business needs
There are many semiconductor companies out there who create high quality products for the technology industry. Sifting through all the names to find the company that is going to meet your needs can often times be exhausting.
I recommend: Check out Fairchild Semiconductor to buy or get samples of their products. AMD specializes in Computer Processors (an advanced form of the semiconductor) and offers an array of products on their site. Both of these companies offer both low and high speed semiconductor devices.
Find companies that specialize in the semiconductor fabrication process
A single wafer of silicon can hold many chips when completed. Etching and doping the wafer in repeating patterns during fabrication is necessary to create the final product. Once these processes have been repeated a number of times, the chips go through metallization before having the final dielectric layer placed on the chip for protection.
I recommend: There are a number of semiconductor manufacturers in the world. Texas Instruments offers a variety of options for various purposes and Microcontroller.com lists a variety of distributors ready to help with your semiconductor needs.
Tips & Tactics
Helpful advice for making the most of this Guide
- • Talk with industry leading microchip manufacturers such as Intel or HP to learn where they get their semiconductors. Word of mouth is always the best advertising.
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