Signetics
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| founding | 1961 |
| resolution | 1975 |
| Reason for dissolution | Takeover by Philips (now NXP) |
| Seat | Sunnyvale, California , USA |
| Branch | Integrated circuits |
Signetics was a large American semiconductor manufacturer with headquarters in Sunnyvale (in Silicon Valley ) and other production facilities in Albuquerque and Orem . Signetics was taken over in 1975 by Philips, today NXP Semiconductors of the Philips Semiconductors division , which was spun off from Philips in 2006 . The German test house in Nördlingen (Bavaria) has merged into today's RoodMicrotec Nördlingen GmbH + Co. KG.
Signetics was founded in 1961 by David Allison, David James, Lionel Kattner and Mark Weissenstern, all engineers and former employees of Fairchild Semiconductor , and specialized in the manufacture of integrated circuits (IC) such as the NE555 . As part of a major reorganization, Philips formed the Philips Semiconductors division in 1991 , whereupon Signetics was renamed Philips Semiconductors Sunnyvale and the name Signetics and the Signetics logo (a square S) disappeared.
The name Signetics is still used by Signetics Korea Ltd. used, a former Signetics subsidiary in Korea, for testing and packaging of integrated circuits. Signetics Korea developed into an independent subcontractor for Philips Semiconductors in 1995 and opened a subsidiary in the USA in 1996 under the name Signetics High Technology, Inc. In 2000 Signetics Korea was bought by the Korean Young Poong group.
The Signetics 2650A processor has been named a. in the first and only German game console, the Interton VC4000 (1978), in the console Hanimex HMG 2650 (in the USA Arcadia 2001 , 1982) and in several arcade games from 1976-1986, which were not particularly successful.
