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Mostek was an integrated circuit manufacturer, founded in 1969 by Messrs. L. J. Sevin, Louay E. Sharif, Richard L. Petritz and other ex-employees of Texas Instruments. Initially their products were manufactured in Worcester, Massachusetts, however by 1974 most of its manufacturing was done in the Carrollton, Texas facility on Crosby Road. At its peak in the late 1970s, Mostek held an 85% market share of the dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) memory chip market worldwide, until being eclipsed by Japanese DRAM manufacturers who offered equivalent chips at lower prices by dumping memory on the market.
In 1979, soon after its market peak, Mostek was purchased by United Technologies Corporation for $345M. In 1985, after several years of red ink and declining market share, UTC sold Mostek for $71M to the French electronics firm Thomson SA, later part of STMicroelectronics. Mostek's intellectual property portfolio, which included rights to the Intel x86 microprocessor family as well as many foundational patents in DRAM technology, provided a large windfall of royalty payments for STMicroelectronics in the 1990s.
Mostek was a manufacturer of integrated circuits. Not to be confused with MOS Technology or Mustek Systems.
Mostek may also refer to:
- Mostek (Trutnov District), a village and municipality in the Czech Republic
- Mostek (Ústí nad Orlicí District), a village and municipality in the Czech Republic
- Mostek, Lesser Poland Voivodeship, a village in southern Poland
- Mostek, Podlaskie Voivodeship, a village in north-eastern Poland
- Mostek, Warmian-Masurian Voivodeship, a settlement in northern Poland
Mostek is a village and municipality in Trutnov District in the Hradec Králové Region of the Czech Republic.
Category:Villages in Trutnov District
Mostek is a village and municipality ( obec) in the Ústí nad Orlicí District, Pardubice Region of the Czech Republic.
The municipality covers an area of , and had a population of 237 (as at 3 July 2006).
Mostek lies approximately north-west of Ústí nad Orlicí, east of Pardubice, and east of Prague.