And I thought that Thomson was now 50%+ owned by General Electric.
Peace... Sridhar
On 8 Aug 2001, Iggy Drougge wrote:
> John Honniball skrev:
>
> >On 7 Aug 2001 23:50:1 +0100 Iggy Drougge <optimus_at_canit.se>
> >wrote:
> >> It's funny, but all other 68000 MPUs I've seen have been either Hitachi or
> >> "ST" (?) models. Or plastic PLCC models.
>
> >ST = SGS-Thomson Microelectronics: http://www.st.com
>
> >The same French/Italian company that bought INMOS and the
> >transputer. They now build the ST6 range of
> >microcontrollers, and the CPU chip used in the Dreamcast,
> >amongst many others.
>
> I thought the Dreamcast used a Hitachi.
> I didn't know Thomson owned INMOS and Mostek, either.
>
> >They also bought Mostek (not MOS Technologies), builder of
> >the NVRAM chips used in Sun workstations as real-time clock
> >chips. And now suffering from dead batteries.
>
> Well, yes, we've been through that. =)
>
> --
> En ligne avec Thor 2.6a.
>
> "I'm all man underneath my skirt."
> Boy George
>
Received on Wed Aug 08 2001 - 15:43:52 BST