Austek Microsystems

Austek Microsystems Pty. Ltd. (1984-1994) was an Australian company founded by Craig Mudge to commercialize technology developed by CSIRO through their VLSI programme. It had a design office in Adelaide, and a marketing and support office in Silicon Valley.

Austek produced a number of digital signal processing chips, but their most successful products were cache controllers. In 1987 it released the A38152, the world's first single-chip cache controller operating at 20 MHz and to enhance the performance of 80386-based computer systems. This was followed in 1989 by the A38202 cache controller, also for 80386-based systems. [ [http://www.highbeam.com/doc/1G1-7804350.html A38202 Product Announcement] , October 12 1989]

Austek however was unable to compete with Intel in the cache controller market. The Adelaide design office closed in 1992, and the company was wound up in 1994.

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* [http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/tia/891.html#3612 Austek history to 1988] , published by Australian Science and Technology Heritage Centre
* [http://www.austehc.unimelb.edu.au/asaw/biogs/A000357b.htm Austek Microsystems Pty Ltd (1984 - c. 1994)] , "Australian Science at Work", published by The University of Melbourne eScholarship Research Centre