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GEC Plessey Semiconductors

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1990 Company launched, a subsidiary of GEC, the original plan to share ownership with Siemens having been dropped. Sites at Swindon, Plymouth, Lincoln and Oldham, and in America. Ex-Plessey business was about two-thirds of the total. The company would concentrate on high technology devices, being unable to compete effectively for the volume semiconductor business. About 120 staff expert in silicon technology would be transferred from the Caswell research centre to the factories to troubleshoot[1]

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Sources of Information

  1. The Times Wednesday, July 25, 1990