Intersil Corporation is an American company that specializes in the design, development and manufacturing of high-performance analog semiconductors for four high-growth markets — Communications, Computing, High End Consumer and Industrial. Intersil was founded in 1967 by Jean Hoerni to produce digital watches. When microprocessors emerged to the market in the 1970s, Intersil participated with its 12-bit IM6100, which was the first microprocessor produced in CMOS technology and emulated the PDP-8 instruction set. In 1988 Intersil was taken over by Harris Semiconductor, who had offered... e. g. the IM6100 as second source. Harris combined these activities with the semiconductor divisions of Radiation Incorporated, General Electric and RCA they had taken over before. In 1999 Harris spun off its entire semiconductor division and Intersil was re-born with the largest IPO in American semiconductor industry history. Next to digital circuits like microprocessors and memories like the 1k-bit CMOS RAM IM6508 and CMOS EPROMS IM6604/IM6654 Intersil designed famous analogue ICs like the ICM8038 waveform generator.
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| NASDAQ symbol: | ISIL |
| Founded: | 1999 |
| Headquarters: | Palm Bay, Florida |
| Legal structure: | Public company |
| Annual revenue: | $769,670,000 |
| Net income: | $-1,037,560,000 |
| Operating income: | $-1,047,040,000 |
| Market cap: | $3,200,000,000 |
| Industries: | Semiconductor Manufacture |