Company Pedigree
| Ascendant Companies | Descendent Companies | ||
| Company | Comments | Company | Comments |
| Fairchild Semiconductor | Co-founded by former Fairchild employees Jim Ferguson. Bob Norman and Howard Bobb along with Arthur Lowell (who brought the funding of Pyle-National) in 1963 | Philco-Ford | Bought the financially troubled company in 1966 and closed it in 1968 |
| AMI | Founded by Howard Bobb in 1966 | ||
| Electronics Arrays | Jim McMullen and other left to found McMullen Associates which became Electronic Arrays, Inc. in 1967 | ||
Company Overview
Created to develop the MOSFET wafer fabrication technology. MOSFET technology was sold under the brand name of Picologic. Never made money.
Major Achievements
In 1965, developed the MOS (MOSFET) wafer fabrication technology. Created the first MOSFET chips.
Chip Identification
General Micro-electronics Logo
General Micro-electronics Chips
| DTL Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) | |
| NAND/NOR Gates | 254G3, 254G4, 264D2, 264D5, 264DR, 263DG, 264G9, 263Q, 263Q2, 264T2 |
| Power Gates | 264P, 264E3, 264D3,264D4 |
| NAND/NOR Buffers | 264L, 264B3, 264B4, 264E4 |
| Binary Elements | 264B (RST Flip Flop), 264MB (RST Flip Flop), 264JK (JK Flip Flop) |
| Delay Elements | 264SS (Multivibrator) |
| Expanders | 254DD, 254D3, 254G6, 254DA |
| RTL Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) | |
| RTL Gates | 134G (Gate), 134D2 (Dual Gate), 134D3 (Dual Gate), 134B (Buffer), 134E (Expander Gate), 134H (Half-Adder), 134A (Adder), 134R (Register) |
| MOSFET Integrated Circuits (as of 1966) | |
| Shift Registers | pL5000 Series (register lengths from 8-100 bits) |
| Analog Switches | pL4S01, pL4S02 (digital to analog storage register) |
| Counters | pL5050 (Dual decade counter), pL4C01 (BCD decade counter) |
| Gates | pL4G01 (Dual 4-input), pL4G02 (BCD to decade counter) |
| Module | pL4M01 (Dual JK Flip Flop) |