National Semiconductor - Manufacturing Locations

Manufacturing Locations

History of manufacturing locations
Year Comments
1967 Test operations started in Hong Kong.
1969 Manufacturing operations started in Greenock, Scotland; Fürstenfeldbruck, Germany; and Singapore. Acquired lead-frame manufacturer DynaCraft.
1972 Assembly and test operations started in the two Malaysia states of Malacca and Penang.
1975 Final-manufacturing operations were started in Bangkok, Thailand and Bandung, Indonesia.
1976 Assembly and test operations started in Manila, Philippines.
1976 Started its first then state-of-the-art four-inch wafer fabrication operation in West Jordan, a suburb of Salt Lake City, Utah.
1979 Opened its assembly plant for high reliability components used in aerospace applications in Tucson, Arizona.
1985 Six-inch wafer fabrication operation started in Arlington, Texas.
1987 Acquired Fairchild Semiconductor Corp from Schlumberger. Inherited facilities housing Fairchild's headquarters and wafer fabrication operations in South Portland, Maine.
1989 Facilities in Danbury, Connecticut closed.
1990 Consolidated Singapore manufacturing operations in Bukit Merah district into Fairchild's Toa Payoh facilities.
1990 Sold Fairchild facilities at Puyallup, Washington to Matsushita Electric Industrial Company.
1992 Closed assembly operations in Tucson, Arizona. Retained the site as a design center.
1995 Sold DynaCraft (with locations in Santa Clara, California; Murrysville, Pennsylvania; and Penang, Malaysia) to Carsem Enterprises, the semiconductor division of Malaysia Pacific Industries.
1996 The construction of billion dollar (actual ~$932 million) eight inch fabrication plant started in a location abutting formerly Fairchild facilities in South Portland.
1997 Eight-inch wafer fabrication operations became fully functional.
1997 National Semiconductor executives led by Kirk Pond, who was also an executive of the former Fairchild, acquired funding to buy a reconstituted Fairchild Semiconductor for US$550 million.

The reconstitution was characterised by the new Fairchild being alloted the formerly National Semiconductor locations at Penang (Malaysia), Cebu (Philippines), West Jordan/Salt Lake City (Utah) while National retained the formerly Fairchild location of Toa Payoh (Singapore).
2002 Started construction of $200 million final-manufacturing operations plant in Suzhou, Jiangsu, China.
2004 Started final-manufacturing operations in Suzhou, China.
2005 Closed final-manufacturing operations in Toa Payoh, Singapore. Transferred all manufacturing operations to Melaka, Malaysia and Suzhou, China.
2009 Closed final-manufacturing operations in Suzhou, China and wafer fabrication plant in Arlington, Texas. Transferred all final-manufacturing operations to Melaka, Malaysia and wafer fabrication to South Portland, Maine and Greenock, UK. Two wafer fabrication plants: Maine and UK, and 1 final-manufacturing operation plant, Malaysia.
2011 Acquired by Texas Instruments on September 23rd, 2011.

National Semiconductor also had operations in Migdal (tower) Ha'Emeq (valley), Israel. National Semiconductor had six inch (152 mm) wafer fabrication operations there. In 1993, National Semiconductor divested to retain 19% ownership of the plant. The plant in Migdal Ha'Emeq, Israel is now constituted as Tower Semiconductor of Israel.

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