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Integrated circuit and computer chip manufacturers use logos to make an identifiable mark in advertising as well as labeling there chips. As time passes companies grow, merge, split, and change directions so company logos often change. Zilog has had 4 logos. Intel has had over 4 and also created logos for series's of chips.

Contents 1 Advertising 2 Chip Identification 3 List of Company Logos 3.1 A-C 3.2 D-F 3.3 G-I 3.4 L-N 3.5 O-R 3.6 S-U 3.7 V-Z 4 SOURCES 5 See Also

[edit] Advertising

Logos give companies a way to distinguish tthemselves from other companies. They give the public a quick way to identify the company, and envision a slogan, personality, or emotion. Many ic manufactures logos are very similar. There are two main reasons for this. The first is they are allot ic manufacturers and there are only so many permutations of simple shapes. The other reason is too benefit from another company reputation, by making it hard to distinguish the two.

[edit] Chip Identification

Some ic's are too small to write the entire companies name, so a logo can take the place. For example old Intel chips were identified by a large lowercase 'i'. Larger chip often place the logo as well as the their name to make the chip stand out. As technology has improved the chip packages have gotten smaller. Many chip manufactures have forgone placing the company name and the logo to save space, just put the part number. The smallest chips such as SOT23 package and the SC70 package 3 or 4 letter identifier to show the version of the chip and do not even include the part number.

[edit] List of Company Logos

[edit] A-C

Acer	Actel	Advanced Hardware Arch	Advanced Hardware Arch	Advanced Linear Devices
Advanced Power Technology	Advanced Linear Devices			Agilent
AKM	AKM
	Allegro	Alliance Semiconductors	Alliance Semiconductors
		Altera	AMD: Advanced Micro Devices	AMD
AMI	AMI		Amkor
			Analog Devices	Analog Devices
Analog Devices			Apex	Apex
	ARM		Astec
	ATI	Atmel	AT&T
			Austria Mikro Sytems
				Burr-Brown
California Micro Devices		Catalyst	Catalyst
		Cherry
Chipcon	Chipcon	Chips	Crontel
Cirrus Logic	Cirrus Logic
Consumer Microcircuits				Cypress Semi
Cypress Semi	Cypress Semi	Cyrix

[edit] D-F

Daewoo	Daewoo
Dallas Semi	Dallas Semi	Dallas Semi	Dallas Semi	Davcom Semi
Davcom Semi			Diotec Elecktronische
	Elantec	Elantec
		Ensoniq		Epson
Epson	Ericsson	Ericsson
Exar	Exar	Excel Semi	Excel Semi
Fairchild	(Motorola)Freescale	Fuji Electronics	Fujitsu	Fujitsu
Fujitsu

[edit] G-I

Galileo	Galvant		GE:General Electric
Gennum Corp	Gennum Corp
		Goldstar	Goldstar
		Harris Semi	Harris Semi	Harris Semi
	Hitachi	Hitachi	Holtek Semi	Holtek Semi
HP: Hewlet Packard		Hynix	Hyundai	IC Design
		IDT	IDT
		Infineon	Information Storage Devices
Intel	Intresil	Intresil	Intresil	Intresil
IRF: International Rectifiers			ISSI

[edit] L-N

Lambda Advanced Analog	Lattice Semi	Lattice Semi	Lattice Semi	Lattice Semi
Linear	Linear		LiteON	Lucent Technologies
				Maxim
Micronas Internetal	Micron		Micro Semi Corp	Micro Semi Corp
Micro Semi Corp		Microchip Tech	Mitel Semi	Mitel Semi
Mitsubishi	Mitsubishi			Mosaic
Mosel Vitelic Design		MOS	Mostek	Mostek
Mostek		Motorola	Motorola	Motorola
		muRata	muRata	muRata
		National Semi	National Semi	NEC: Nipon Electronics Corp
NEC
Nvidia

[edit] O-R

ON Semi	Opti	Orbit		Panasonic
			Philips
		Power Innovations	Princeton Tech Corp
		Qualcomm
Rabbit		Raytheon	RCA	Realtek
		Reneral Semi	Renesas	Renesas
Rockwell	Rohm

[edit] S-U

S3	Sage
		Samsung
		Sanyo	Sanyo
Sanyo
Semtech Corp	Semtech Corp
	Sharp
Siements	Siements	Sierra
Silicon Labs			Silicon Storage Tech Inc
	Simtek		SIS	SMC
		Solid State Micro Tech For Music	Sony
			SSS
		Synergy	Synertek	System General
	TDK Semi	TDK Semi
	TelCom Semi Inc		Telefunken	Telefunken
		THAT Corp		TI
TI		Torex Semi	Toshiba	Toshiba
Toshiba	Toshiba	Toshiba	Trident	TriQuint Semi
TriQuint Semi			Tundra	Turbo IC
			Unitrode	Unitrod

[edit] V-Z

V3
	Vanguard		VIA	Virata
Vishay		Vitelic	VLSI	VLSI Vision Ltd
			Watkins Johnson Co
	Weitek	Winbond	Winbond	Wolf
Xemics	Xemics
Xilinx	Yamaha	Zcomm	Zetex
Zilog	Zilog	Zilog	Zilog

[edit] SOURCES

• plasma-online[[1]]

[edit] See Also

• Company logos