Vivid Semiconductor

Vivid Semiconductor, Inc. produces active-matrix liquid crystal display column (AM-LCD) driver electronics. Vivid's patented technique for fabricating high-voltage semiconductor devices using standard low-voltage digital CMOS processes. This technology increases the performance of display drivers built into liquid crystal displays. The company offers VS3300, VS3312, VS3484, VS3384, VS3184, VS3684, and VS3284 target panel resolutions for AM-LCD notebook applications; and VS3984 and VS3884 target panel resolutions for AM-LCD Monitors. The company offers its products in North America through distributors.

Vivid Semiconductor, Inc. is a patented extended voltage range architecture, Vivid has developed technology that allows designers to build enhanced-performance flat-panel displays with full color and full-motion video. Vivid Semiconductor, Inc. was acquired by National Semiconductor Corporation.
As pioneering chip maker, National Semiconductor was one of the companies that put “Silicon” in Silicon Valley. Now the company does business as Silicon Valley Analog (SVA) and is a division of Texas Instruments (TI). TI SVA offers a variety of integrated circuits, especially analog and mixed-signal (which blends analog and digital functions) chips. TI SVA’s chips are used in wireless, networking, medical, solar, automotive, and industrial applications. National Semiconductor has been a part of Texas Instruments (TI) since 2011.

National Semiconductor Corporation was a leading U.S. manufacturer of semiconductors used in a broad range of electronics applications. During its rapid rise to prominence in the late 1970s, National Semiconductor gained a reputation as the most efficient producer of semiconductors in the world, turning out a wide array of standardized, reliable parts at very low cost. In the increasingly crowded world of semiconductors, however, National Semiconductor suffered during the 1980s from Asian price competition, turned around in the 1990s under another chief executive, Brian Halla, and used its expertise in analog chips in the 2000s to stake its claim in the evolving consumer products market. National Semiconductor's microprocessing chips power a multitude of portable electronics, such as cellular phones with cameras and Internet access, personal digital assistants, global positioning systems, tiny handheld television screens, and MP3 and iPod music players.