As the Semiconductor aftermarket pioneer, Landale extends the product life cycle of many electronic components by manufacturing them after the original manufacturers have ceased production. Through the direct acquisition of lines from major industry manufacturers including Motorola/Freescale and Signetics, Lansdale uses its unique Life Cycle Management program to continue the product life of both military and commercial diminishing source technology. Using this program, Lansdale is able to extend the production life of various popular and vital components by many years in order to guarantee their continued availability to the consumer and military markets.

History

Lansdale was founded in 1964 when Edward Pincus purchased Philco-Ford's Germanium small-signal transistor line. In 1976, Lansdale acquired Motorola's Germanium power transistor line and moved from Lansdale, Pennsylvania, to Arizona.

Through the following years, the company purchased additional product lines, including the first bipolar digital integrated circuit line from Raytheon and SUHL, DTL and TTL lines from Motorola and Signetics. A bipolar wafer fabrication facility in Santa Monica, California, was added in 1984, allowing the company to expand its manufacturing capability in standard and custom integrated circuits. In 1986, the Germanium transistor lines were sold, and Lansdale dedicated itself to producing integrated circuits.

In 1987, Lansdale was purchased by then-company president R. Dale Lillard. Since then, Lansdale has added product from AMD, Fairchild, Freescale, Harris and Intel to the lines it supports. The company expanded its support of Motorola products by acquiring DTL, HTL, Linear, RTL and more TTL lines in 1991. It also increased its Signetics (now Philips) offerings by acquiring over 600 new parts, including both military and commercial product, in 1992. The new sole-sourced commercial product facilitated Lansdale's expansion into plastic packaging and the commercial marketplace.

To improve its ability to support its customers, Lansdale built a new wafer fabrication facility in Tempe, Arizona, in 1994, closing the Santa Monica facility, and became a QPL manufacturer, transitioning to QML in 1996. The QML plan was modified to allow Lansdale to list its parts regardless of whether the die was fabricated by Lansdale or by the original manufacturer.

In February 2000, Lansdale sold its wafer fab to Primarion, with an agreement for continuing support for foundry services. This allowed Lansdale to expand its support of older-technology product lines. Since then, Lansdale has acquired the rights to the Philips bipolar PROM family as well as additional Motorola (now Freescale) products, which have introduced Lansdale to the wireless and RF communications commercial marketplace.

Product Information

All Lansdale products are established diminishing source technologies that have been discontinued by the major manufacturers but are still needed to support spares requirements and manufacturing of mature designs. These lines are purchased directly from the original manufacturer. Lansdale is sole source on over 850 products.

From the beginning, Lansdale Semiconductor, Inc., has specialized in aftermarket technology manufacturing and supplies for discontinued semiconductors and integrated circuits. Lansdale has the technical expertise to manufacture, supply and support, the discontinued integrated circuits and semiconductor aftermarket.

We are dedicated to that goal, assuring the customer base that older discontinued semiconductor, RF and other intergrated circuit technology product supplies will continue to be available. As technology advances, Lansdale Semiconductor is also keeping an eye on the future. As product life cycles become shorter, more programs are placed at risk by obsolete and discontinued integrated circuits supplies.

Lansdale serves two vital functions by purchasing discontinued integrated circuit and semicondcutor product lines. We allow the original manufacturer to divest itself of a product it can no longer support. It also offers users of that product the opportunity to keep their programs intact without costly redesign. As long as customers need to maintain older systems, Lansdale Semiconductor will be there to manufacture and supply the discontinued semiconductor technology critical to their success.