{"id":904,"date":"2013-09-19T20:49:50","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T20:49:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=904"},"modified":"2013-09-21T20:32:55","modified_gmt":"2013-09-21T20:32:55","slug":"sgs-ates-componenti-electtronici-spa","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=904","title":{"rendered":"SGS-Ates Componenti Electtronici SpA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0Ascendant Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nDescendent Companies<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Company<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nCompany<\/b><\/span><\/td>\nComments<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
SGS<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nSGS merged with another Italian company, Ates, to form SGS-Ates in 1971<\/span><\/td>\nSGS Microelettronic<\/span><\/td>\nIn 1985, SGS-Ates was renamed to SGS Microelettronic<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Ates<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nAtes merged with another Italian company, SGS, to form SGS-Ates in 1971<\/span><\/td>\nSGS-THOMSON Microelectronics<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nSGS Microelettronic merged with Thomson in June of 1987 to create SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Mostek<\/a><\/span><\/td>\nUnited Technologies bought Mostek in 1980, then sold Mostek to SGS-Ates in 1981. The Mostek brand used until 1985.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Company Overview<\/h2>\n

SGS was merged with Ates by the Italian government. Control of SGS was removed from Olivetti and the whole new corporation SGS-Ates was controlled by STET (Societ\u00e0 Finanziara Telefonica), which already controlled Ates.<\/p>\n

The merged SGS-Ates company focused on linear IC’s for much of the 70’s. In 1979 SGS-Ates licensed the Z80 from Zilog and produced a complete family of pin-compatible Z80 chips. In 1982, SGS developed a line of Zilog Z8000 compatible chips.<\/p>\n

In the 1981, SGS-Ates bought the troubled Mostek from United Technologies. This added addition market share of Z80 chips and added Mostek’s Fairchild F8 licenses.<\/p>\n

SGS never developed any unique designs and as competitive commodity pressures increased, SGS merged with the French company Thomson.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Chip Identification<\/h2>\n

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SGS-Ates Chips<\/h2>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree \u00a0Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments SGS SGS merged with another Italian company, Ates, to form SGS-Ates in 1971 SGS Microelettronic In 1985, SGS-Ates was renamed to SGS Microelettronic Ates Ates merged with another Italian company, SGS, to form SGS-Ates in 1971 SGS-THOMSON Microelectronics SGS Microelettronic merged with Thomson in June … <\/p>\n

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