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    Synertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer founded in 1973. The initial staff consisted of Bob Schreiner (the CEO), Dan Floyd, Jack Balletto...
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    to the design of the MP944 microprocessor. Subsequently he co-founded Synertek in 1973, where he served as the company's primary chip designer. One of...
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    company built its own chip factories. Zilog licensed the Z80 to the US-based Synertek and Mostek, which had helped them with initial production, as well as to...
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  • acquired by semiconductor manufacturer Synertek, a second source manufacturer of the 6502, and renamed Synertek Systems. It then created the SYM-1, a 6502-based...
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  • was at Intel. He later went to work for a number of startups, including Synertek, Wafer Scale Integration and San Disk. He and Sanjay Mehrotra co-founded...
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    In the early days of the 6502, it was second-sourced by Rockwell and Synertek, and later licensed to other companies. In 1981, the Western Design Center...
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  • Operating System) CPU Zilog Z80 @ 2 MHz Memory 16 kB or 32 kB Graphics Synertek 6545 CRT controller for 64 × 16 characters (512 × 256 pixels) Sound Monotonic...
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    6510 General information Common manufacturer MOS Technology, Rockwell, Synertek Performance Max. CPU clock rate 0.985 MHz to 1.023 MHz Data width 8 Address...
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    and production of some critical products was shifted to a friendly fab (Synertek) in Silicon Valley. Several employees played a key role in the Telecommunications...
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    Atari wanted a second source of the chipset. Peddle and Paivinen suggested Synertek whose co-founder, Bob Schreiner, was a friend of Peddle. In October 1975...
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