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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 commercially their most successful products were cache controllers. In 1987 it released the A38152, the world's first single-chip cache controller, to enhance the performance of 80386-based computer systems; it operated at 20 MHz. This was followed in 1989 by the A38202 cache controller, also for 80386-based systems. 12 October 1989 Austek however was unable to compete with |
