Mostek
Sign in to saveMostek Corporation was a semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturer, founded in 1969 by L. J. Sevin, Louay E. Sharif, Richard L. Petritz and other ex-employees of Texas Instruments. At its peak in the late 1970s, Mostek held an 85% market share of the dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) memory chip market worldwide, until being eclipsed by lower-priced Japanese DRAM manufacturers who were accused of dumping memory on the market.
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- Company.name
- Mostek Corporation
- Company.logo
- File:Mostek logo late 1970s.svg
- Company.logo_caption
- Mostek logo from the late 1970s until its acquisition by United Technologies
- Company.industry
- Semiconductors
- Company.founded
- in Worcester, Massachusetts
- Company.fate
- Merged into STMicroelectronics
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- inception
- 1969-00-00
- dissolved, abolished or demolished date
- 1987-00-00
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- Mostek (company)
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19 sectionsContents
- Early Products
- World leader in DRAM
- World leader in telecommunications products
- Microprocessor second sourcing deals
- MK5065
- MK3870
- MK3880
- Others
- Decline in the face of Asian competition
- Afterword
- Spinoffs
- Mostek Manufacturing
- Photomask
- Wafer Fabrication
- Test
- Assembly/Packaging
- Notes
- References
- External links
Mostek Corporation was a semiconductor integrated circuit manufacturer, founded in 1969 by L. J. Sevin, Louay E. Sharif, Richard L. Petritz and other ex-employees of Texas Instruments. At its peak in the late 1970s, Mostek held an 85% market share of the dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) memory chip market worldwide, until being eclipsed by lower-priced Japanese DRAM manufacturers who were accused of dumping memory on the market.
In 1979, soon after its market peak, Mostek was purchased by United Technologies Corporation for . In 1985, after several years of red ink and declining market share, UTC closed Mostek completely and sold it for to the French electronics firm Thomson-CSF, which later spun it off into STMicroelectronics.