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design firm established on 2 July 1973 by a consortium of companies that included Fujitsu,
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and Matsushita (Panasonic). The company was formed to design and manufacture the MN1610, a
16-bit 16-bit microcomputers are microcomputers that use 16-bit microprocessors. A 16-bit register can store 216 different values. The range of integer values that can be stored in 16 bits depends on the integer representation used. With the two ...
microprocessor A microprocessor is a computer processor (computing), processor for which the data processing logic and control is included on a single integrated circuit (IC), or a small number of ICs. The microprocessor contains the arithmetic, logic, a ...
. The MN1610 was released in April 1975, becoming one of the world's first single-chip 16-bit microprocessors. The design saw relatively little use and remains largely unknown in the computer field. In 1987, Panafacom was merged with USAC Electronic Industrial to form today's
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L-16A CPU
A description (in Japanese) of the MN1610 processor.

A description (in Japanese) of the MN1613 processor. 16-bit microprocessors {{Japan-company-stub