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General Instruments

General Instruments Microelectronics was a division of General Instruments Corporation. GI was a manufacturer of LSI circuits and a pioneer in MOS technology and EAROM (Electrically Alterable ROM), with both off-the-shelf and custom circuits. In 1980, their product catalog included:

  • 16-bit Microprocessor: 1600 and 1610, a 16-bit CPU, used in the GIMINI TV-game set and in the Mattel's Intellivision
  • 8-bit Microcontroller: The PIC1650, a n-mos chip. The cmos version of this chip is today the core of the Arizona Microchip PIC controllers
  • ROM
  • EAROM
  • Telecommuncations chips

Other products are: SP0256, a single-chip speech generator and the famous AY-3-8910.

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