{"id":926,"date":"2013-09-19T21:04:47","date_gmt":"2013-09-19T21:04:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=926"},"modified":"2013-09-22T11:36:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-22T11:36:42","slug":"weitek","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.antiquetech.com\/?page_id=926","title":{"rendered":"Weitek"},"content":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree<\/h2>\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
Weitek<\/span><\/td>\nFounded by Chi-Shin Wang, Edmund Sun, and Godfrey Fong (President and CEO) in 1981 in San Jose. All founders immigrated from China.\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

\u00a0Company Overview<\/h2>\n

Weitek specialized in high-performance digital semiconductor components and systems for the computer and workstation industries. Weitek floating point units have been used with Inmos Transputers (Floating Point System T-series Hypercube, 1986), National Semiconductor NS32032’s (Encore Multimax, 1986), and Intel 386’s (1988). The 2048 was used in the Thinking Machines Corporations CM-2 Connection Machine. Weitek produced floating point processors for HP. HP allowed to Weitek to use it’s facilities to make chip for themselves and for their competition.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Major Achievements<\/h2>\n

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Chip Identification<\/h2>\n

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Weitek Chips<\/h2>\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n
\u00a0 <\/span>Microprocessors<\/b><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
CPU’s<\/span><\/td>\nSparc microprocessor<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
MCU’s<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Bit-Slice<\/span><\/td>\n\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Coprocessors<\/span><\/td>\n1164, 1165,\u00a0 3164, 3167 (designed for 386, single chip implemented of 1167 board, 1988), 3170 (designed for SPARCstation 1), 3172 (designed for SPARCstation IPC & SLC), 2048, 8701<\/b> <\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
\u00a0 <\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Company Pedigree \u00a0Ascendant Companies Descendent Companies Company Comments Company Comments Weitek Founded by Chi-Shin Wang, Edmund Sun, and Godfrey Fong (President and CEO) in 1981 in San Jose. All founders immigrated from China.\u00a0 \u00a0Company Overview Weitek specialized in high-performance digital semiconductor components and systems for the computer and workstation industries. Weitek floating point units have … <\/p>\n

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