ST Microelectronics

From: Alan Pearson <Alan.Pearson_at_cramersystems.com>
Date: Thu Aug 9 03:28:00 2001

> The same French/Italian company that bought INMOS and the
> transputer. They now build the ST6 range of
> microcontrollers

The ST20 range (now dead?) was basically the transputer core
minus the links. I don't know how long they kept that range
going though, at the time that I left (mid 96) the T450 had
been renamed ST20450 and was being used in a set-top box. I
forget who the box was for though :-/

It's probably fair to say that the ST20450 was the last of
the "real" transputers, by the time it was released to market
the T9000 was still under development (did it *ever* make
it out the door as a product?). I'm not sure it if was that
widely used - it wasn't exactly promoted with a fanfare :-)

I got the impression that ST didn't really want the ST20
though, it didn't sit well with their other microcontrollers
and they were more interested in developing graphics chips
at ST Bristol by the time I left. Shame.

--al
Received on Thu Aug 09 2001 - 03:28:00 BST