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Founders and Headquarters of Leading VLSI/Semiconductor Companies

Posted on March 15, 2023June 19, 2025 By vlsifacts No Comments on Founders and Headquarters of Leading VLSI/Semiconductor Companies

We all have a curiosity to know who is the founder of a particular company. In this article, we will list down the founders of leading VLSI Companies (Semiconductor Companies) along with their founding year and location of headquarters. It also highlights a few major acquisitions by and/or of the semiconductor companies.

CompanyFoundersYear FoundedHeadquarters
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD)Jerry Sanders, Edwin Turney, Jack Gifford, Larry Stenger, Frank Botte, John Carey, Sven Simonsen, Jim Giles1969Santa Clara, California, United States
Analog DevicesRay Stata and Matthew Lorber1965Wilmington, Massachusetts, United States
Apple Inc.Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, Ronald Wayne1976Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, United States
Arm Ltd. (arm)*Larry Tesler, Jamie Urquhart, Mike Muller, Tudor Brown, Lee Smith, John Biggs, Harry Oldham, Dave Howard, Pete Harrod, Harry Meekings, Al Thomas, Andy Merritt, David Seal1990Cambridge, England, UK
Cadence Design SystemsA merger of Solomon Design Automation and ECAD1988San Jose, California, United States
Fujitsu LimitedParent Organization: Furukawa Group1935Minato, Tokyo, Japan
HitachiNamihei Odaira1908Marunouchi, Chiyoda-ku, Tokyo, Japan
Infineon Technologies**Parent Company: Siemens AG1999Neubiberg, Germany
Intel Corporation^^Gordon Moore, Robert Noyce1968Santa Clara, California, United States
International Business Machines Corporation (IBM)***Charles Ranlett Flint1911Armonk, New York, United States
MediaTekParent Company: United Microelectronics Corporation (UMC)1997Hsinchu, Taiwan
Mentor Graphics****Tom Bruggere1981Wilsonville, Oregon, United States
Microchip Technology# 1989Chandler, Arizona, United States
NEC##Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda1899Shiba, Minato, Tokyo, Japan
NXP Semiconductors###Parent Company: Philips Semiconductors1953Eindhoven, Netherlands
Nvidia CorporationJensen Huang, Chris Malachowsky, Curtis Priem1993

Santa Clara, California, United States

ON Semiconductor^Parent Company: Motorola Semiconductor1999Phoenix, Arizona, United States
Renesas Electronics CorporationA merger of Semiconductor unit of Hitachi, Mitsubishi, and NEC Electronics2002Tokyo, Japan
Samsung ElectronicsEstablished as an industrial part of Samsung Group1969Suwon, South Korea
Sony SemiconductorParent Company: Sony Corporation2015Atsugi, Kanagawa, Japan
STMicroelectronicsA merger of SGS Microelettronica and Thomson Semiconducteurs1987Plan-les-Ouates, Geneva, Switzerland
SynopsysDavid Gregory, Aart de Geus1986Mountain View, California, United States
Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited (TSMC)Morris Chang1987Hsinchu Science Park, Taiwan
Texas Instruments^^^Cecil H. Green, J. Erik Jonsson, Eugene McDermott, Patrick E. Haggerty1951Dallas, Texas, United States
QualcommIrwin Mark Jacobs, Adelia A Coffman, Andrew Viterbi, Klein Gilhousen, Andrew Cohen, Harvey White, Franklin Antonio1985San Diego, California, United States
XilinxJames V. Barnett II, Ross Freeman, Bernie Vonderschmitt1984San Jose, California, United States
  • *Arm Ltd. is owned by SoftBank Group since 2016.
  • **Infineon Technologies bought Cypress Semiconductor Corporation in 2020.
  • ***Charles Ranlett Flint founded Computing-Tabulating-Recording Company (CTR) in the year 1911 that was renamed “International Business Machines” in 1924.
  • ****Mentor Graphics is acquired by Siemens in 2017.
  • #Microchip Technology bought Atmel in 2016, and Microsemi Corporation in 2018.
  • ##Kunihiko Iwadare and Takeshiro Maeda established Nippon Electric Limited in 1899 which was rebranded as NEC in 1983
  • ###NXP Semiconductors acquired Freescale Semiconductor in 2015.
  • ^On Semiconductor acquired Fairchild Semiconductor in 2016.
  • ^^Intel acquired Altera Corporation (FPGA) in 2015 and NetSpeed (Network-on-Chip) in 2018.
  • ^^^Texas Instruments acquired National Semiconductor in 2011.

Note: All the information are collected from the available resources on the internet. Though we have verified all the information from multiple resources and believe that the information provided above are correct, we do not claim it.

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