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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