Austek Microsystems
Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd. (1984-1994) was an Australian company founded by Craig Mudge to commercialize technology developed by CSIRO through their VLSI programme. It had a design office in Adelaide, and a marketing and support office in Silicon Valley.
Austek produced a number of digital signal processing chips, but their most successful products were cache controllers. In 1987 it released the A38152, the world's first single-chip cache controller operating at 20 MHz and to enhance the performance of 80386-based computer systems. This was followed in 1989 by the A38202 cache controller, also for 80386-based systems.[1]
Austek however was unable to compete with Intel in the cache controller market. The Adelaide design office closed in 1992, and the company was wound up in 1994.
References
- ↑ A38202 Product Announcement, 12 October 1989
External links
- Austek history to 1988, published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
- Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd (1984 - c. 1994), "Australian Science at Work", published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre
- The Austek A38152
- The Austek A38202
- Austek's correlator chip