National Semiconductor Corporation engages in the design, development, manufacture, and marketing of semiconductor products. It offers operational and audio amplifiers, analog-to-digital or digital-to-analog converters, communication interface circuits, flat panel display drivers and signal processors, and radio frequency integrated circuits, as well as power references, regulators, and switches. The company supplies analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products to various markets, such as the industrial, communications, computing, consumer, medical and automotive, wireless handsets, liquid crystal display monitors, personal computers, and communications infrastructure in the Americas, Europe, Japan, and the Asia Pacific region. It also provides microcontrollers, connectivity processors and embedded Bluetooth solutions that serve various applications the wireless, personal computer, industrial, automotive, consumer and communication markets. The company was founded in 1959 and is headquartered in Santa Clara, California.