About National Semiconductor Corporation National Semiconductor is the premier analog company driving the information age. Combining real-world analog and state-of-the-art digital technology, the company is focused on the fast growing markets for wireless handsets; information infrastructure; and display and imaging technologies. National has a rich portfolio of intellectual property along with the system expertise to leverage its analog technologies to develop highly integrated products for a broad range of applications. Our chips power mobile and cordless phones, wired and wireless local area networks, advanced displays and imaging applications, desktop, portable, and a host of other types of electronic devices. National's strong base of analog and mixed analog and digital technologies enables it to provide optimum system solutions by evolving and integrating its basic building block circuits into standard chipsets tailored for specific applications to highly integrated full system solutions. Most of our products are no bigger than a thumbnail, yet contain a cityscape of circuit lines hundreds of times finer than a human hair. National has manufacturing sites around the globe. Its wafer fabrication facilities are located in Arlington, Texas; South Portland, Maine; and Greenock, Scotland. Test and assembly sites are in Melaka, Malaysia, and Singapore. In 2004 National will open a new test and assembly plant in Suzhou, China.
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