Semiconductor manufacturers who's who (historical reference)

rangerssuck · 2013-06-04T22:19:20+00:00

It seems that hardly a month goes by without some semiconductor manufacture r changing names, either because they were acquired by another, spun off as a separate company or whatever. Does anyone have a pointer to a who's who history of these companies? The reason I want it is because sometimes I'll spec a part and my customer will say something like, "ON Semiconductor? Who the heck are they?" and I'l l say, "They used to be Motorola." and the customer who obviously has never heard of ON but has heard of Motorola is comfortable with that. I've had this conversation more than once, and there have been times that I did not know the answer. It would help to have a cheat sheet.