Semiconductor Manufacturers - Silicon Chip Sources

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Silicon Wafer Fabrication

	HERE is a brief summary of the world's top semiconductor manufacturers. Included are suppliers with IC chip fabrication facilities, fabless semiconductor facilities, and silicon foundries. Numbers in parentheses (1) indicate the companies' 2004 sales rank.
Fab Companies - Fabless Companies - Silicon Foundries

Semiconductor Manufacturers with Fabs
	Company (alphabetical)	Products	Location
	Actel	PLD, FPGA	Mountain View, CA
	Agere	storage, network	Allentown, PA (was Lucent)
	Allegro	power, mixed	Worcester, MA
	Alliance	SRAM, PCI	Santa Clara, CA
	AMCC	storage, communications	San Diego, CA
	AMD	flash, CPU	Sunnyvale, CA
	AMI Semi.	DSP, mixed signal	Pocatello, ID
	Analog Devices	analog broad line	Norwood, MA
	Atmel	µc, EEPROM	San Jose, CA
			-
	Catalyst Semi	analog, EEPROM	Sunnyvale, CA
	Conexant	networking	(was Rockwell)
	Cypress Semi	PLD, SRAM	San Jose, CA
			-
	Dallas Semi	µc, mixed sig	(bot by Maxim 2001)
	Elantec	(see Intersil)	-
	Elite Semi	DRAM, SRAM, SGRAM	Lindenhurst, NY
	Exar	analog, mixed sig	Fremont, CA
	Fairchild	power, mixed sig	South Portland, ME
	Freescale	µC, µP, DSP	(formerly Motorola) Austin, TX

	Hitachi	µP, memory	Tokyo, Japan
	Hynix	µC, memory	South Korea (was Hyundai)
	IBM	DRAM, µP	White Plains, NY
	IDT	FIFO, SRAM	San Jose, CA
	Infineon (4)	µC, memory, power	(was Siemens) Munich, germany
	Intel (1)	µP, flash mem	Santa Clara, CA
	Intersil	analog, mixed	Milpitas, CA
	Ixys	power	Santa Clara, CA
			-
	Lattice	PLD, FPGA	Portland, OR
	Linear Technology	analog, mixed	Milpitas, CA
	LSI Logic	ASIC, SOC	Milpitas, CA

	Maxim	analog, mixed sig	Sunnyvale, CA
	Micrel	analog, RF	San Jose, CA
	Microchip Tech.	µC, analog, EEPROM	Chandler, AZ
	Micron Tech.	DRAM, Flash	Boise, ID
	Mitel	(see Zarlink)	-
	Mitsubishi	(see Renesas)	-
	Motorola	(see Freescale)	-

	National Semi.	analog, power, mixed sig	Santa Clara, CA
	NEC (9)	broad line	(Nippon Elec.) Japan
	Oki	µC, µP, memory	Tokyo, Japan
			-
	Panasonic	µC, ASIC, discrete	(Matsushita)
	Peregrine Semi.	RF CMOS	San Diego, CA
	Performance Semi.	mil SRAM, RISC	Sunnyvale, CA
	Phillips (10)	broad line	Netherlands
	PMC-Sierra	µP MIPS, wireless	Santa Clara, CA
			-
	Rambus	DRAM, interface	Los Altos, CA
	Renesas (5)	ASIC, memory, µC	(Hitachi-Mitsubishi)
	Samsung (2)	broad line	Korea
	Siemens	(see Infineon)	Munich, Germany
	Sony	SRAM, mixed sig, opto	Japan
	ST Micro(6)	broad line	Geneva, Swit. (SGS Thomson)

	TDK	telecom ICs, discretes	Tustin, CA
	TI (3)	broad line	(Texas Instruments)
	Toshiba (7)	broad line	Tokyo, Japan
	Triquint	analog, mixed, wireless	Hillsboro, OR
			-
	Vishay	discretes	Malvern, PA
	Vitesse	ethernet, SONET	Camarillo, CA
			-
	Xicor	(see Intersil)	-

	Zarlink Semi.	analog, opto	Ottawa, Ont. (formerly Mitel)
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Fabless Semiconductor Manufacturers - Design Houses
	Company	Products	Location
	Alereon	wideband analog	Austin, TX
	Altera	CPLD, FPGA	San Jose, CA
	Amalfi Semi.	RF devices	Los Gatos. CA
	Ambric	programmable IC	Beaverton, OR
	Artimi	UWB wireless	Santa Clara, CA
	Broadcom	mixed sig	Irvine, CA
	Cirrus Logic	DSP, mixed sig	Austin, TX
	Entropic	broadband modem	San Diego, CA
	EZchip	network µP	Israel
	Flextronics Semi.	ASIC, mixed sig	San Jose, CA

	Goal Semi.	mixed sig, ASIC	Montreal, Quebec
	Innovasic Semi.	µC	Albuquerque, NM
	Keyeye Com.	transceivers	Sacramento, CA
	Legerity	high voltage analog	Austin, TX
	Luxtera	photonics	Carlsbad, CA
	Marvell	ether, cable, DSL	Sunnyvale, CA
	MediaTek	optical storage	Taiwan

	NetLogic Micro.	processors	Mountain View, CA
	Nvidia	video processors	Santa Clara, CA
	Optichron	A-DC	Fremont, CA
	Provigent	broadband modems	Los Altos, CA
	Quake Tech.	ethernet, fiber	Ottawa, Ont.
	Qualcomm	CDMA wireless	San Diego, CA
	Quorum Sys.	RF transceivers	San Diego, CA
	Rabbit Semi.	µP	Davis, CA

	SanDisk	Flash memory	Sunnyvale, CA
	SiberCore	packet forwarding	Ottawa, Ont.
	StarGen	PCI switching	Marlborough, MA
	TeraChip	switch fabric	Palo Alto, CA
	Volterra	analog, mixed sig	Fremont, CA
	Wintegra	network processors	Austin, TX
	Xylinx	FPGA	San Jose, CA
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Semiconductor Foundries - Wafer Production - Silicon Fabs
	Company	Products	Location
	Chartered Semi.	silicon foundry	Singapore, Malasia
	Dongbu/ Anam	silicon foundry	Seoul, Korea
	SMIC	silicon foundry	Shanghai, China
	TSMC (8)	silicon foundry	(Taiwan Semi)
	Tower Semi	silicon foundry	Israel
	UMC	silicon foundry	Taiwan
	X-Fab	silicon foundry	Effurt, Germany

The companies above produce the following types of
Semiconductor components:

IC Semiconductors: ADCs, Analog, Chip sets, DACs, DRAM, DSP, Ethernet, I/O Chips, Interface, Logic, Memory, MicroControllers,
MicroProcessors, Mixed-Signal, Modems, Peripherals, Power Management, Processors, RAM, ROM, Regulators, RTC, SONET, SRAM, Timers, and

Discrete Semiconductors: Diodes, FETs, LED's, Opto, Rectifiers, SCRs, Transistors

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This Vaughns 1-Pagers Semiconductor Companies Summary Chart web page was updated on 2008-08-10.