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Arotech Corporation
Arotech Corporation is a defense and security products and services company. It manufactures and designs products for military and non-military air and ground vehicles; interactive simulation for military, law enforcement and commercial markets, and batteries and charging systems for the military. Arotech operates through two major business divisions: Interactive simulation for military, law enforcement and commercial markets, and batteries and power systems for the military. Arotech is incorporated in Delaware, with corporate offices in Ann Arbor, Michigan and research, development and production subsidiaries in Michigan, South Carolina and Israel. Until late 2019 they were publicly held (NASDAQ: ARTX). In December 2019 Arotech was acquired by Greenbriar Equity Group and taken private. Raytheon Company remains Arotech's chief competitor in defense, homeland security and other government markets. Armor Systems Division In 2004, Armour of America was acquired by Arotech Corpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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ArtX was a company formed in 1997 by a group of twenty former Silicon Graphics, Inc. engineers, who had worked on the Nintendo 64's graphics chip. The company was focused on delivering a PC graphics chip that was both high performance and cost effective, and hoped to be able to instantly compete with then-dominant 3dfx and other fledgling competitors such as nVidia. ArtX was led by Wei Yen, Dr. Wei Yen, who had been SGI's head of Nintendo Operations, the department responsible for the Nintendo 64's fundamental design. David E. Orton, David Orton, who was head of the advanced graphics division of Silicon Graphics, was appointed President of ArtX. History In late 1997, Silicon Graphics, SGI filed a non-compete lawsuit against ArtX, claiming that the startup's staff of high level SGI alumni would be utilizing SGI's trade secrets. This lawsuit was quietly dropped in 1998. ArtX was contracted in May 1998 to create the system logic and the graphics processor (code named ''Nintendo Gam ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
