Synertek

Synertek, Inc. was an American semiconductor manufacturer, which was founded in 1973. The product range of the company ranged from integrated circuits and metal - oxide - semiconductor field-effect transistors and from the year 1979 as a second-source the successful 6502 8 -bit processor from MOS Technology. Synertek supplied among other things Atari and equipped the well-known Apple II from. In addition Synertek put the less successful Philips / Signetics 2650 CPU ago.

Synertek bought the company Micro Computer Associates, which consisted, inter alia, from the engineers Manny Lemas and Ray Holt. After that renamed the company Synertek Systems, Inc.. In 1978 published the Synertek SYM -1 single-board computer, which was equipped with a 6502 processor and the KIM -1 single board corresponded.

Synertek was later taken ( around 1979 ) from Honeywell.