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Intersil Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial.

rsil’s roots were planted with Radiation Incorporated in 1950 , General Electric Solid State in 1954 and RCA Solid State in 1956. Those three companies would eventually come together as Harris Semiconductor .






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Intersil Corporation specializes in the design and manufacture of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial.

Company history

Intersil’s roots were planted with Radiation Incorporated in 1950 , General Electric Solid State in 1954 and RCA Solid State in 1956. Those three companies would eventually come together as Harris Semiconductor . Harris spun off its entire semiconductor division in 1999 and Intersil was re-born with the largest IPO in American semiconductor industry history . Over the past seven years, Intersil has focused on growth and opportunities in the “pure-play,” high-performance analog semiconductor market.

In February 2008, Rich Beyer resigned as CEO to pursue another opportunity and was succeeded by Dave Bell, who soon after restructured the company from five divisions to two.

Products

Some of the many end applications in which Intersil analog ICs can be found include desktop and notebook PCs, cell phones, portable media players and other handheld devices, video distribution systems, video displays, medical equipment, military and space electronics, and industrial systems. Intersil has 47 product families whose products include amplifiers, analog front ends, communication interfaces, data converters, digital potentiometers, display solutions, DSL solutions, optical storage
Optical storage

Optical storage is a term from engineering referring to the storage of data on an optically readable medium. Data is recorded by making marks in a pattern that can be read back with the aid of light....
 products, power management products, power sequencers, real time clocks, battery management ICs, switches/MUX
Mux

mux was a windowing system developed by Rob Pike at Bell Labs for the Version 9 Unix. mux is a predecessor of the Plan 9 from Bell Labs windowing systems 8? and Rio , which retain its minimalist Graphical user interface....
's, VoIP products and harsh environment ICs for mining, military, space and radiation hardened applications.

A creation of Intersil (as Harris Semiconductor) is the PRISM
PRISM (chipset)

PRISM wireless networking solutions are a family of Conexant chipsets used for Wireless LANs, and were formerly produced by Intersil....
  line of Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi

Wi-Fi is a trademark of the Wi-Fi Alliance, founded in 1999 as Wireless Internet Compatibility Alliance , comprising more than 300 companies, whose products are certified by the Wi-Fi Alliance, based on the IEEE 802.11 standards ....
 hardware: that group of products was sold to GlobespanVirata in 2003, and is currently maintained by Conexant
Conexant

Conexant Systems Inc. is a publicly listed United States semiconductor company, which was formerly the semiconductor division of Rockwell International....
. Intersil is the present manufacturer of the RCA (CDP)1802
RCA 1802

The RCA 1802 is an 8-bit CMOS microprocessor introduced by Radio Corporation of America in early 1976, and being manufactured by Intersil Corporation....
 microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
 (aka RCA COSMAC), a CPU
Central processing unit

A central processing unit is an electronic circuit that can execute computer programs. This broad definition can easily be applied to many early computers that existed long before the term "CPU" ever came into widespread usage....
 traditionally much used in space applications.

See also

  • Analog
    Analog

    Analog or analogue may refer to:*Analog signal, a variable signal that is continuous in time and amplitude, as opposed to a digital or discrete signal:...
  • Semiconductors


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