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Current Manufacturers of CPU MCU and MPU semiconductors
ARM liscenses its technology to many companies such as Hagenuk. | |
Makers of the K6 K7, Opteron etc, as well as many integrated CPUs such as the Elan486 and Geode | |
Atmel - Makers of 8x5x based MCUs as well as ARM based MCUs | |
California Micro Devices: Use to make 65xx CPUs | |
Cypress Makes small scale MCUs | |
Dallas-Maxim makes VERY fast (50MHz) 8051 flash MCUs | |
Fairchild formerly made several popular MCUs | |
Fujitsu made second source Intel chips and also has fabbed CPUs for SUN and other companies. They still make MCUs | |
HP makes the PA-RISC series of server CPUs | |
Hitachi - Makes several MCUs | |
IBM has designed and built many CPUs such as the RS6000 and Power5 CPUs | |
IDT - Formerlly made the Winchip, Now makes very small MCUs | |
Intel - Makes about everything. It all started with the 4004 | |
LSILogic - Has fabbed CPUs for Sun. Mainly a ASIC and logic company. | |
Microchip - Makers of the famous PIC MCUs | |
Mitsubishi made Intel clones (8080s etc) and now makes MCUs | |
Motorola - Makers of the famous 68xx and 680xx line as well as PowerPC chips for Apple. | |
National - Formerly makers of Cyrix and the Geode. The now make MCUs | |
OKi Semiconductor - Made Intel clones 8085 etc and now makes MCUs | |
Phillips - Same as Oki as far as products go. | |
PMC-Sierra purchased QUantum Effect Devices and now makes MIPS based processors. | |
Realtek makes NIC chips as well as 6502s | |
Rise made the MP6 MP6-2 and the iDragon CPUs | |
ST made 486s Pentiums and Z80s, they now make other MCUs and are one of the largest semiconductor companies in the world. | |
Samsung has fabbed chips for the Alpha and others | |
Siemens now called Infineon, now mainly makes memory but still has a line of MCUs | |
TI makes MCUs and DSPs as well as many other products (486s/386s in the past) | |
VIA makes CPUs based on the winchip and Cyrix as they bought both of these companies in the late 90s | |
WDC is a current producer of the 6502 | |
Zilog STILL makes the venerable Z80 CPU which has its origins in the Intel 8080. |