Inmos
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Inmos International plc (trademark INMOS) and two operating subsidiaries, Inmos Limited (UK) and Inmos Corporation (US), was a British semiconductor company founded by Iann Barron, Richard Petritz, and Paul Schroeder in July 1978. Inmos Limited’s head office and design office were at Aztec West business park in Bristol, England.
Products
Inmos' first products were
The transputer achieved some success as the basis for several parallel
Other devices produced by Inmos included the A100, A110 and A121
Business history
The company was founded by
Under the
In total, Inmos had received £211 million from the government, but did not become profitable.[9] According to Iann Barron Inmos was profitable in 1984 "we were really profitable in 1984 ... we made revenues of £150 million, and we made a profit which was slightly less than £10 million".[10]
In April 1989, Inmos was sold to SGS-Thomson (now STMicroelectronics). Around the same time, work was started on an enhanced transputer, the T9000. This encountered various technical problems and delays, and was eventually abandoned, signalling the end of the development of the transputer as a parallel processing platform. However, transputer derivatives such as the ST20 were later incorporated into chipsets for embedded applications such as set-top boxes.
In December 1994, Inmos was fully assimilated into STMicroelectronics, and the usage of the Inmos brand name was discontinued.
Notes
- ^ "50 years in electronics: Hall of Fame". electronicsweekly.com. 4 October 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "Revisiting the INMOS Transputer". rs-online.com. 31 March 2022. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "ATARI LAUNCHES TRANSPUTER-BASED STATION, UNIX MICRO TODAY". techmonitor.ai. 1 November 1987. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ "Supercomputing with Transputers - Past, Present and Future". dl.acm.org. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ Coles, Ray (October 1985). "Rally to the Colours". Practical Computing. p. 29. Retrieved 26 March 2021.
- ^ "IBM PS/2 Model 25". dosady.co.uk. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
- ^ a b Wayne Sandholtz (1992) "High-Tech Europe: The Politics of International Cooperation." Berkeley: University of California Press p. 155
- ^ Thorn-EMI Will Buy A 76% Stake in Inmos, The New York Times, 13 July 1984.
- ^ Kevin Smith, "Inmos Forced to Get off the Dole." Electronics 22 September 1983, 56:106, as cited by Wayne Sandholtz
- ^ Iann Barron, Archives of IT, p26
References
- Arthur Trew and Greg Wilson (eds.) (1991). Past, Present, Parallel: A Survey of Available Parallel Computing Systems. New York: Springer-Verlag. ISBN 0-387-19664-1
- Mick McClean and Tom Rowland (1986). The Inmos Saga. Quorum Books. ISBN 978-0-89930-165-5
External links
- Inmos and the transputer: part 1 and part 2 — a 1998 talk given by Iann Barron to the Computer Conservation Society of the British Computer Society
- Inmos ex-employee website
- Dick Selwood (August 2007). "The Inmos legacy". Components in Electronics.
- Parsys SN9500 based on 32 x T9000 running at 20 MHz (text and pictures)
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