Editing National Semiconductor (section)

==Manufacturing locations==
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|+ History of manufacturing locations
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| 1967 || Test operations started in [[Hong Kong]].
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| 1969 || Manufacturing operations started in [[Greenock]], [[Scotland]]; [[Fürstenfeldbruck]], [[Germany]]; and [[Singapore]]. Acquired lead-frame manufacturer DynaCraft.
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| 1972 || Assembly and test operations started in the two [[Malaysia]] states of [[Malacca]] and [[Penang]].
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| 1975 || Final-manufacturing operations were started in [[Bangkok]], [[Thailand]] and [[Bandung]], [[Indonesia]].
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| 1976 || Assembly and test operations started in [[Manila]], [[Philippines]].
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| 1976 || Started its first then state-of-the-art four-inch wafer fabrication operation in [[West Jordan, Utah|West Jordan]], a suburb of [[Salt Lake City]], [[Utah]].
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| 1979 || Opened its assembly plant for high reliability components used in aerospace applications in [[Tucson, Arizona|Tucson]], [[Arizona]].
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| 1985 || Six-inch wafer fabrication operation started in [[Arlington, Texas]].
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| 1987 || Acquired Fairchild Semiconductor Corporation from [[Schlumberger]]. Inherited facilities housing Fairchild's headquarters and wafer fabrication operations in [[South Portland, Maine|South Portland]], [[Maine]].
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| 1989 || Facilities in Danbury, Connecticut closed.
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| 1990 || Consolidated Singapore manufacturing operations in [[Bukit Merah]] district into Fairchild's [[Toa Payoh]] facilities.
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| 1990 || Sold Fairchild facilities at [[Puyallup, Washington]] to [[Panasonic Corporation|Matsushita Electric Industrial Company]].
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| 1992 || Closed assembly operations in Tucson, Arizona. Retained the site as a design center.
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| 1995 || Sold DynaCraft (with locations in Santa Clara, California; [[Murrysville, Pennsylvania|Murrysville]], [[Pennsylvania]]; and Penang, Malaysia) to Carsem Enterprises, the semiconductor division of Malaysia Pacific Industries.
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| 1996 || The construction of a ~$932 million eight-inch fabrication plant started in a location abutting formerly Fairchild facilities in South Portland.
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| 1997 || Eight-inch wafer fabrication operations became fully functional.
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| 1997 || National Semiconductor executives led by Kirk Pond, who was also an executive of the former Fairchild, acquired funding to buy a reconstituted Fairchild Semiconductor for US$550 million.

The reconstitution was characterised by the new Fairchild being allotted the formerly National Semiconductor locations at Penang (Malaysia), Cebu (Philippines), West Jordan/Salt Lake City (Utah) while National retained the formerly Fairchild location of Toa Payoh (Singapore).
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| 2002 || Started construction of $200 million final-manufacturing operations plant in [[Suzhou, Jiangsu]], [[China]].
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| 2004 || Started final-manufacturing operations in Suzhou, China.
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| 2005 || Closed final-manufacturing operations in Toa Payoh, Singapore. Transferred all manufacturing operations to Melaka, Malaysia and Suzhou, China.
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| 2009 || Closed final-manufacturing operations in Suzhou, China and wafer fabrication plant in Arlington, Texas. Transferred all final-manufacturing operations to Melaka, Malaysia and wafer fabrication to South Portland, Maine and Greenock, Scotland.
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| 2011 || Acquired by [[Texas Instruments]] on September 23, 2011.
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National Semiconductor also had operations in Migdal (tower) Ha'Emeq (valley), Israel. National Semiconductor had six inch (152&nbsp;mm)  wafer fabrication operations there. In 1993, National Semiconductor divested to retain 19% ownership of the plant. The plant in [[Migdal HaEmek|Migdal Ha'Emeq]], Israel is now constituted as [[Tower Semiconductor]] of Israel.