Sarnoff Corporation

Sarnoff Corporation

Company type	Private
Industry	Science Technology Software Electronics Computer hardware IT consulting
Defunct	January 3, 2011 (2011-01-03)[1]
Fate	Merged with SRI International[1]
Successor	SRI International
Headquarters	201 Washington Rd, Princeton, New Jersey
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	William A. Jeffrey President and CEO of SRI Mark A. Clifton[2] Last CEO of Sarnoff Corporation General Manager of SRI Princeton
Services	Research
Parent	SRI International
Website	http://www.sarnoff.com

Sarnoff Corporation was a research and development company specializing in vision, video and semiconductor technology. It was named for David Sarnoff, the longtime leader of RCA and NBC, and had headquarters in West Windsor Township, New Jersey, though with a Princeton address.

The cornerstone of Sarnoff Corporation's David Sarnoff Research Center in the Princeton vicinity was laid just before the attack on Pearl Harbor in 1941. That facility, later Sarnoff Corporation headquarters, was the site of several historic developments, including color television, CMOS integrated circuit technology and electron microscopy.

Following 47 years as a central research laboratory for its corporate owner RCA (and briefly for successor GE) as RCA Laboratories, in 1988 the David Sarnoff Research Center was transitioned to Sarnoff Corporation, a wholly owned subsidiary of SRI International. In January 2011, Sarnoff Corporation was integrated into its parent company, SRI International, and continues to engage in similar research and development activities at the Princeton, New Jersey facility.^[1][3] Although located adjacent to Princeton University, the two are not, and have never been, directly affiliated.