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Midwest Scientific Instruments — United States: 1972: 1985: Dissolution: Mitsubishi Electric: Mitsubishi Group: Japan: 1960: 1990: Exited the computer business: Modcomp — United States: 1970: Unknown: Exited the computer business; survives today as CSPi Technology Solutions, a systems integrator: Mohawk Data Sciences Corporation ...
In 1982, a venture group was created to commercialize MRIGlobal’s inventions. Major projects included engineering lightweight thermoelectric cooling devices for U.S. Army aircraft. This technology earned an R&D 100 Award, and was used in Operation Desert Storm to keep flight personnel cool while operating in warm climates.
The center researches innovations for wireless integrated microsystemss.The ERC WIMS works on merging micropower circuits, wireless interfaces, biomedical, and environmental sensors and subsystems, and advanced packaging to create microsystems that will have a pervasive impact on society during the next two decades.
Alpha Microsystems, Inc., often shortened to Alpha Micro, was an American computer company founded in 1977 in Costa Mesa, California, [1]: 20 by John French, Dick Wilcox and Bob Hitchcock. During the dot-com boom , the company changed its name to AlphaServ , then NQL Inc. , reflecting its pivot toward being a provider of Internet software. [ 2 ]
Midwest Scientific Instruments, Inc. (MSI), often shortened to Midwest Scientific, was an American computer company founded in Olathe, Kansas, in the early 1970s.Charles C. Childress, a doctorate of biochemistry, founded the company as a way to market his data acquisition and processing interfaces based on programmable calculators for medical, scientific, and industrial uses.
A division focused on microcomputing, Plessey Microsystems, was founded in 1975, having licensed the 16-bit Miproc processor architecture developed by the Norwegian Defence Research Establishment and Aksjeselskapet Mikro-Elektronikk. [9]
The Processor Products group designed and marketed embedded microcontrollers as well as server processor, packet and storage processors. It included the network processors of former MMC Networks (acquired October 2000) with IBM PowerPC 4xx series microcontrollers (acquired April 2004).
Sun Microsystems, from its inception in 1982 to its acquisition by Oracle Corporation in 2010, became known for being "something of a farm system for Silicon Valley." [ 1 ] It had a number of employees credited with notable achievements before, during or after their tenure there.