Mostek

Mostek was a semiconductor manufacturers in Texas, which was founded in 1969 by former employees of Texas Instruments. In the late 1970s he held 85 % market share of the global DRAM market before it was supplanted by the emerging Japanese competition. 1979 Mostek was acquired by United Technologies Corporation and sold to the French company Thomson in 1985. Their semiconductor division Thomson Semiconducteurs merged in 1987 with the Italian SGS Microelettronica to SGS-Thomson, the renamed in 1998 in STMicroelectronics.

Products

Mostek developed and finished dynamic RAM (DRAM ) at different MOS semiconductor technologies. Through the use of multiplexed address, i.e., the address for selecting the row and the column of the memory array is sequentially transferred to the module, the required number of address lines was cut in half. This was particularly in the development of bigger memory to bear. So at first were a 4k × 1-bit DRAM ( MK4096 MK4027 and ) and later a 16k x 1 bit DRAM ( MK4116 ) are housed in a case with only 16 connections.

When the company Zilog brought the successful 8-bit microprocessor Z80 1976 on the market, this was first produced in factories by Mostek. In exchange Mostek got a license to market the Z80 and associated system ICs as a second source.

• Semiconductor manufacturers
• Company (Texas )
• Former hardware manufacturer