Ferranti Semiconductor
From Graces Guide
1955 Ferranti was already producing germanium semiconductors when it became the first European company to produce a silicon diode.
1977 Produced a range of silicon bipolar devices including, in 1977, the F100-L, an early 8-bit single chip microprocessor with 16-bit addressing. An F100-L was carried into space on the amateur radio satellite UoSAT-1 (Oscar 9). Ferranti's ZTX series bipolar transistors gave their name to the inheritor of Ferranti Semiconductor's discrete semiconductor business, Zetex plc.
1988 Plessey acquired Ferranti Semiconductors, creating Europe's largest semi-custom chip company.[1]
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- ↑ The Times Mar. 2, 1988