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| | General
Micro-electronics, Inc.
Company Pedigree
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Ascendant Companies |
Descendent Companies |
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Company |
Comments |
Company |
Comments |
| Fairchild
Semiconductor |
Co-founded
by former Fairchild employees Jim Ferguson. Bob Norman and Howard Bobb along with Arthur
Lowell (who brought the funding of Pyle-National) in 1963 |
Philco-Ford |
Bought the financially
troubled company in 1966 and closed it in 1968 |
| AMI |
Founded by Howard Bobb
in 1966 |
| Electronics Arrays |
Jim McMullen and other
left to found McMullen Associates which became Electronic Arrays, Inc. in
1967 |
Company Overview
Created to develop the MOSFET wafer fabrication
technology. MOSFET technology was sold under the brand name of Picologic. Never made money.
Major Achievements
In 1965, developed the MOS (MOSFET) wafer
fabrication technology. Created the first MOSFET chips.
Chip Identification
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| General Micro-electronics Logo |
General Micro-electronics Chips
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DTL Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) |
| NAND/NOR Gates |
254G3, 254G4, 264D2, 264D5, 264DR, 263DG, 264G9, 263Q,
263Q2, 264T2 |
| Power Gates |
264P, 264E3, 264D3,264D4 |
| NAND/NOR Buffers |
264L, 264B3, 264B4, 264E4 |
| Binary Elements |
264B (RST Flip Flop), 264MB (RST Flip Flop), 264JK (JK Flip
Flop) |
| Delay Elements |
264SS (Multivibrator) |
| Expanders |
254DD, 254D3, 254G6, 254DA |
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RTL Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) |
| RTL Gates |
134G (Gate), 134D2 (Dual Gate), 134D3 (Dual Gate), 134B
(Buffer), 134E (Expander Gate), 134H (Half-Adder), 134A (Adder), 134R
(Register) |
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MOSFET Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) |
| Shift Registers |
pL5000 Series (register lengths from 8-100 bits) |
| Analog Switches |
pL4S01, pL4S02 (digital to analog storage register) |
| Counters |
pL5050 (Dual decade counter), pL4C01 (BCD decade counter) |
| Gates |
pL4G01 (Dual 4-input), pL4G02 (BCD to decade counter) |
| Module |
pL4M01 (Dual JK Flip Flop) |
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