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| National Semiconductor |
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is one of the world’s leading suppliers of high technology
integrated circuits,orICs.National focuses primarily on three
major market segments:
Home,Wireless and Enterprise electronics.National chips are
at the heart of such systems as local and wide area networks,telephones,cellular
phones,pagers,TVs,DVDs,set-top boxes,medical equipment,desktop,
portable and thin-client computers,and thousands of other
types of electronic devices.National is using its analog expertise
as a leading developer of
prod-ucts for Information Appliances –the fast growing category
of electronics that access the Internet without a computer.
Most of our products are no bigger than a thumbnail yet contain
a cityscape of circuit lines hundreds of times finer than
a human hair.
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| National by the Numbers |
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| Founded:1959 |
Employees:10,500 |
Patents held:2200+ |
| Revenues:$2.1+billion |
Number of products:10,000+ |
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| National ’s Business Strategy |
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| National Semiconductor is putting systems on a
chip for its key trendsetting data highway partners,using its
analog expertise as a starting point for forward integration. |
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National ’s
Vision
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National
envisions a world where elec-tronic systems are vastly
more powerful,affordable and friendly than they are today.A
world where immense information processing and communications
capabilities are diffused into our daily lives in the
form of easy to use Information Appliances.A planet where
things that think are everywhere.An age beyond the PC
where everyone has access to information any time,anywhere,as
simply as
making a phone call.We are working to create a world made
better through information access by driving the technologies
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Each year National honors its top
patent winners with a special Patentof the Year award.There
were three winners in fiscal year 2000.
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Information Appliances Are Here
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The computing industry
is maturing.Electronic devices are becoming more specialized,more
personalized —and the market for these new Information
Appliances (IA)is exploding.National is a leading provider
to several key IA markets:Portable Web Access Devices,Set-top
Boxes,and Thin Client computers such as Windows
based terminals.
Unleashing The Power Of Analog
National is dedicated to enabling its customers to develop
the newest consumer and business
devices with increasingly human capabilities to
sense,think,control and interact with the world around
them.By inte-grating its rich families of analog and digital
technologies into real-world
silicon solutions,National will enable its
customers to create innovative new products that
link people into a global community,over-coming geographical
and language barriers to enrich the rela-tionships of
all people everywhere.
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The convergence of data
and voice is illustrated by this innovative new device,the
Ericsson cordless Screen Phone ,which provides Internet
access with the ease of a phone call. |
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Mobile phones
are prolifera-ting worldwide.This new GSM “world ”phone
can operate on five continents:Europe,Asia,
Africa,Australia and the Americas. |
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