National Semiconductor was founded in 1959 by Dr. Bernard J Rothlein. It’s headquarters were based in Santa Clara, California.
It was a semiconductor manufacturer that specialised in analog devices and subsystems.Its products included power management circuits, microcontrollers, display drivers, audio and operational amplifiers and data conversion solutions.
It was acquired in 2011 by Texas Instruments and today the company has a combined portfolio of nearly 45K products.