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Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd (1984 - c. 1994)

Function: Manufacturing Industry and Computer Technology or Multimedia

Location: Australia

Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd. was a company founded to commercialize a break-through design technology developed by CSIRO through their VLSI Programme. Developments also included a floating-point arithmetic processor chip for an American computer company, samples of signal processing chips for Japan and the world's first single-chip cache controller operating at 20 Mz and to augment the performance of 80386-based computer systems.

Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd was deregistered from the Australian Securities & Investments Commission on 6 July 1994.

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Academy of Technological Sciences and Engineering, Technology in Australia 1788-1988, Online edn, Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre, Melbourne, 3 May 2000, http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/scripts/tia-dynindex.php3?EID=A000357. [ Details ]

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