National Semiconductor Corporation

Company profile

National Semiconductor Corporation designs, develops, manufactures and markets a wide array of semiconductor products, including a broad line of analog, mixed-signal and other integrated circuits (ICs). Its analog and mixed-signal devices include amplifiers and regulators, image sensors, power monitors and line drivers, radio frequency, audio amplifiers, display drivers and signal processors. Other products with digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital capability include products for local area and wireless networking and wireless communications, as well as products for personal systems and personal communications. It uses the brand name Super I/O to describe its ICs that handle system peripheral and input/output functions on the personal computer motherboard. In the fiscal year ended May 26, 2002, its operations were organized in five groups the Analog Group, Information Appliance and Wireless Group, Displays Group, Wired Communications Group and the Custom Solutions Group.