(1) (
Very
Large
Scale
Integration) An earlier measurement of transistor density on a chip. VLSI was between 100,000 and one million transistors. See
SSI,
MSI,
LSI and
ULSI.
(2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ) A designer and manufacturer of custom chips that was acquired in 1999 by Philips Semiconductors, a division of Royal Philips Electronics. In 2006, the company was renamed NXP Semiconductors.