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 | Nov 25, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today introduced the LM2403, a high-speed triple channel CRT driver
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 | Nov 17, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE: NSM) today announced that shareholders of Cyrix Corporation have approved the merger agreement between National Semiconductor and Cyrix at a special meeting held today in Dallas, Texas
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 | Nov 17, 1997
In a move to help original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) bring sub-$1,500 networked PC products to market more quickly, National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE:NSM) today unveiled its first fully validated Managed PC reference design
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 | Nov 17, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE:NSM) today announced the USBN9602, a standalone Universal Serial Bus (USB) node that offers original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) unmatched design flexibility in developing USB PC peripherals
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 | Nov 17, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today introduced a chip set for SVGA/XGA TFT LCD panels at Fall Comdex 97
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 | Nov 13, 1997
Cyrix Corporation (NASDAQ:CYRX) and National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE:NSM) announced today that on November 12, 1997 a class action complaint was filed by a purported Cyrix stockholder in the Superior Court of the State of California for the County of Santa Clara
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 | Nov 11, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced it has acquired all of the outstanding shares of stock of Future Integrated Systems (FIS) based in Milpitas, California
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 | Nov 04, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of a dual micropower rail-to-rail output single supply op amp with new lows in power current consumption - just 0.95 microamp typical supply current per amplifier, and a guaranteed supply current of 1.2 microamp per amplifier
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 | Oct 31, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of the QML-V Qualified FACT Quiet Series logic family- the first advanced CMOS logic devices to meet the noise problems of ground bounce, dynamic threshold and high EMI in
space-qualified applications
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 | Oct 30, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today named Jean-Louis Bories, 42, as Senior Vice President and General Manager of the company's newly formed Core Technology Group
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 | Oct 28, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced a power-on-reset (POR) voltage monitor with guaranteed accuracy of 1% over the entire temperature range of -20C to +85C and with guaranteed reset valid down to Vcc=0.5V. The micropower LP3470 voltage monitor, housed in a tiny SOT23-5 package, is designed to generate a reset output whenever the supply voltage falls below preset specifications
Maximum flexibility for power-on-reset (POR) and supervisory functions is provided with
an adjustable reset time-out period
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 | Oct 27, 1997
With an eye on accelerating the success (and mass consumer acceptance) of Digital Versatile Disc (DVD) on the PC, Mediamatics announced today the industry?s first flexible software DVD solution complete with Microsoft DirectShow compatibility and Content Scrambling System (CSS) software for playback of Hollywood movie content
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 | Oct 21, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? and DSP Group, Inc.(NASDAQ: DSPG) today announced that they have entered into an agreement under which DSP Group, Inc., has become the worldwide exclusive distributor for general licensing and support of National?s CompactRISC core technology
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 | Oct 17, 1997
National Semiconductor? today announced a three-year, $2.5 million program to provide teachers access to free Internet training, and to encourage its use in the classroom
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 | Oct 16, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of 0.5A versions of its high-efficiency Simple Switcher step-down power converters
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 | Oct 09, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the implementation of a worldwide private network to deliver Internet and extranet services to their customers with rapid, reliable performance internationally. These services will be delivered through a relationship with Digital Island
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 | Oct 08, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? (NSM:NYSE) today announced
changes in the responsibilities of its executive staff
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 | Oct 06, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the industry?s first 3V Channel Link driver and receiver chip sets
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 | Oct 02, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the release of
the world?s highest-speed, low-power mil-qualified operational amplifiers for
high-performance military/aerospace applications, such as radar, sonar, moving map
displays and communications
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 | Sep 30, 1997
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) (NYSE: AMD),
Broadcom Corporation, National Semiconductor Corporation (NYSE: NSM) and Texas
Instruments (TI) (NYSE: TXN), today announced a jointly developed specification for a
Reduced Media Independent Interface (RMII) intended for use between 10/100Mbps
Ethernet physical layer interface (PHY) devices and switch silicon
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 | Sep 29, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation?, the market leader in Fast
Ethernet silicon solutions, today announced an advanced single-chip physical layer and
transceiver device to support both 10BASE-T, 100BASE-TX, and FX Ethernet protocols
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 | Sep 29, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced its
support of the new Low Pin Count (LPC) interface specification, developed by Intel
Corporation, with the introduction of the first LPC-based Super I/O device
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 | Sep 23, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of a high-efficiency switched capacitor voltage converter designed for fractional step-up 3:2 conversion or step-down 2:3 conversion mode
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 | Sep 18, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced
additional output voltage ratings and an extended temperature range for its line of
award-winning LM2825 integrated power supplies (IPS)
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 | Sep 04, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today reported net income of
$70.1 million, or 45 cents per share, on sales of $600.8 million for its first quarter of fiscal
1998, reflecting a 39 percent growth in revenues and a 40 percent increase in bookings
over National's core business in last year's first quarter
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 | Jul 30, 1997
National Semiconductor's Free Design Kit With Newest High-Speed Op Amps Simplifies Prototyping of Active Filters up to 100MHz
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 | Jul 28, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE:NSM) and Cyrix Corporation? (NASDAQ:CYRX) today announced a definitive merger agreement in order to develop system-on-a-chip technology for the rapidly growing entry-level PC, Net-PC and information-appliance markets
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 | Jul 28, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of the LMV8172, a vertical deflection output amplifier for cathode ray tubes (CRTs)
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 | Jul 24, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation's first Fellow Award, given to the technologist who has consistently shown outstanding contributions, was awarded to Tom Redfern, a strategic technical advisor in the company's Communication and Consumer Group
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 | Jul 22, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation will break ground today on a $100 million expansion of its 8-inch wafer facility in Santa Clara, Calif
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 | Jul 22, 1997
With the introduction of the LM2662 and LM2663 charge-pump voltage converters, National Semiconductor Corporation? today doubled the current-output generated by switched capacitors in an SO-8 surface-mount package
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 | Jun 27, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the opening of its 200 mm fab in South Portland, Maine
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 | Jun 24, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of
stereo audio amplifiers that deliver 11W per channel into 4-ohm speakers and 7W per
channel into 8-ohm loads from a 24V supply at 10% THD (total harmonic distortion)
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 | Jun 19, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of the first in a series of high-efficiency Simple Switcher? step-down power converters
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 | Jun 12, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced availability of
an economy version of its high-performance Boomer audio amplifiers. The device?s MSOP
package, occupying only half the space of a standard SO-8, makes the mono-bridged
LM4864 audio amplifier ideal for cell phones and cordless phones with stringent space
limitations
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 | Jun 09, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the appointment of Ulrich Seif as vice president of Information Services and chief information officer
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 | Jun 05, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today reported net income of
$61.9 million, or 41 cents per share, on National's core operations without the Fairchild
businesses and excluding the effect of one-time charges and gains in its fourth fiscal quarter
which ended May 25, 1997
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 | Jun 05, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today raised the level of integration for audio amplifiers to meet the company?s system-on-a-chip strategy
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 | Jun 02, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the industry's first Advanced Configuration Power Interface (ACPI)-compliant SuperI/O device with both ACPI controller and extender capabilities
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 | May 29, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? (NYSE:NSM) today announced that it has revised its net income for the second and third quarters of fiscal year 1997 in response to a Securities and Exchange Commission review of the company's spin-off of its Fairchild businesses
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 | May 29, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? and Graychip DSP Chips and Systems today announced an agreement to jointly market ICs for cellular basestations
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 | May 27, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today re-positioned itself in the forefront of the switched capacitor market with the introduction of the LM2660 and LM2661 CMOS charge-pump voltage converters
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 | May 13, 1997
National Announces Realignment of Manufacturing With One Time Charge of $75-85M, Offset By Credits of $278M
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 | May 12, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the COP8ACC, a family of low-cost microcontrollers that offer up to 16-bit ADC performance with an integrated analog function block dedicated for high resolution, single-slope Analog-to-Digital conversion
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 | May 06, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the formation of the Customization Business Unit (CBU) - a competency-based alliance with Cadence Design Systems, Inc. and Aspec Technology - to provide a complete range of ASIC
services for its military/aerospace customers
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 | Mar 31, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the redesign of its Web site (http://www.national.com) to help engineers make faster and better decisions based on timely and detailed information
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 | Mar 31, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation today announced the newest members of its Channel Link family, which enable Gigabit interconnects in telecommunications and data-communications applications
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 | Mar 31, 1997
National Semiconductor?s LM6172-QML Dual Op Amp Offers Mil/Aero Market Best Slew Rate, Highest Gain Bandwidth At Lowest Price
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 | Mar 11, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced the completion of its previously announced sale of National's Fairchild businesses, consisting of a broad portfolio of logic, discrete and non-volatile memory semiconductor devices aimed
at high-volume markets
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 | Mar 11, 1997
National Semiconductor? Shrinks One-Amp Low Dropout Regulator Into SOT-223 Package
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 | Mar 10, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced it has signed an agreement to acquire Mediamatics, Inc., a Fremont, California company that is the world's largest supplier of MPEG audio/video decoders to the personal computer market
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 | Mar 10, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today announced four additions to its broad line of Low Voltage Differential Signaling (LVDS) driver and receiver devices
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 | Mar 06, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today reported net income of $42.8 million or 30 cents per share for the third quarter of fiscal 1997, compared with net income of $23.0 million or 17 cents per share for the comparable quarter of fiscal 1996
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 | Mar 04, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today released a low-cost deflection solution for continuous autosync 15-inch CRT monitors
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 | Mar 04, 1997
National Semiconductor Corporation? today released a low-cost deflection solution for continuous autosync 15-inch CRT monitors
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