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General Microcircuits company history timeline

1981

Motorola purchased Four Phase Systems in 1981.

1985

With a focus on advanced memory and microprocessor devices the company became the world’s largest merchant semiconductor supplier for the seven years following 1985.

1986

RCA Solid State’s Princeton Research Laboratory and the Somerville manufacturing location in New Jersey introduced many early transistor and MOS IC technology innovations before the company was reacquired by GE in 1986.

Synopsys Inc. was founded in 1986 by Aart J. de Geus and a team of engineers from General Electric’s Microelectronics Center in Research Triangle Park, North Carolina under the original name Optimal Solutions.

1987

Cadence Design Systems, Inc is an electronic design automation (EDA) software and engineering services company founded in 1987 by the merger of Solomon Design Automation Systems (SDA) and ECAD, Inc.

1990

Formally named Sieko Corporation in 1990, today the company is one of the world’s premier watch producers.

1993

Later renamed Teledyne Semiconductor, the company operated as a unit of Teledyne Components before being spun out in 1993 as Telcom Semiconductor, Inc.

1997

In 1997 National divested a group, formed as the present Fairchild Semiconductor, in a leveraged buy-out.

1999

Intersil was acquired by GE in 1981 and sold to Harris Corporation in 1988, when the name was retired. It reappeared in 1999 when Harris spun-off the semiconductor business.

2000

Linear Technology is traded on the NASDAQ and joined the S&P 500 Index of companies in the spring of 2000.

2002

Lucent spun-off the semiconductor operations as Agere in 2002.

A technology and manufacturing alliance with Fujitsu culminated in its acquisition by the Japanese company in 2002.

2006

Fiscal 2006 revenue was $1.1 billion.

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