In the digital age, one of the most most sought-after gadgets are analog semiconductors—collectively with ones made by 91-year-extinct Texas Devices Inc., the company known to consumers for calculators which had been around since the 1970s.

Expertise executives mutter this year’s supply-chain bottlenecks, which maintain hit aspects for all the things from iPhones to Ford F-150s, are specifically acute in chips that don’t poke zeros and ones. Analog chips treat incoming files about temperature, sound and electrical unique more savor a human would, on a scale with many gradations.