kropf@iam.unibe.ch (Peter Kropf) (12/22/88)
The following could be read in the Sunday Times on 11th Dec 1988 : >THORN EMI is believed to be ready to merge Britain's flagship microchip- >maker, INMOS, with Thomson-SGS, the French-Italian manufacturer of >semiconductors. >The deal will create the biggest chip manufacturer in Europe .... >After years in gestation, the transputer is a world-leading micro- >processor. Sales are soaring, especially in Japan where more than 200 companies>are designing it into their products. >...,Inmos to turn a $10.8m loss for the first half of the year to September 19>1987 into a $7.5m profit for the period this year. >...,the deal secures the future of INMOS .... ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Peter Kropf Institute of Informatics and Applied Mathematics University of Bern Laenggassstrasse 51 CH-3012 Bern Switzerland Phone : +41 31 658668 ; Email kropf@iam.unibe.ch ------------------------------------------------------------------------