 Seeq Technology Memorabilia Company: Seeq Technology Based: San Jose, CA. Founded: 1981 (Incorporated in 1991, sold off memory products line in 1994, in 1999 Atmel purchased their EEPROM division, LSI Corporation acquired the rest of the company) Founders: Gordon Campbell, George Perlegos & Phil Salisbury (Ex-Intel employees) Specialty: Designer & Manufacturer of high reliability EEPROM, EPROM & DRAM memory in the 1980s. Moved to developing Integrated Circuits for Ethernet based bridges, routers, switching hubs, LAN / WAN network analyzers, workstations and network printers in the 1990s. Fabless semiconductor chip company after 1990 (foundry partners have included AMI Semiconductor, Ricoh, Rohm, Samsung Semiconductor, and TSMC) |
Seeq Technology 128k UV erasable Eprom (1984)
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Seeq Technology 5516A 16K EEPROM Chip Paperweight (1985)
Item #979
This Lucite paperweight from Seeq Technology was created to promote their 16K EEPROM (electrically erasable programmable read only) memory chip that was the industry's first EEPROM capable of enduring a minimum of 1 million write cycles. It operated at 5 volts, and had a 10 millisecond write time.
The actual Seeq 5516A chip embedded inside is a 24-pin ceramic DIP package.
SEEQ started as a manufacturer of CMOS integrated circuits . Ethernet was the dominant local area network (LAN) technology that was originally developed by Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1970s. SEEQ would concentrate their efforts on the emerging Fast Ethernet marketplace. As an Ethernet (10 Mbps) silicon pioneer, Seeq introduced the industry's first Ethernet chipset in 1982.
Their high-endurance, high reliability, "Q-Cell" EEPROM Memory technology was first announced in 1984 by Seeq Technology, and used their proprietary Silicon Oxynitride (MOS) manufacturing process.
Seeq founders developed EPROM and EEPROM devices in competition with their former employer Intel. Extended litigation with Intel and other problems led to the sale of the company assets to Atmel Corporation in 1994. In 1994 the Company had restructured its operations by selling its memory product line. .
By 1998, SEEQ Technology had transformed itself into a leading semiconductor designer and manufacturer of Data Communication products, shipping more than 17 million LAN chips.
Seeq introduced the industry's first Full Duplex Ethernet chip in November 1992, as well as the industry's first Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) four-port controller in September 1994. In March 1995, Seeq introduced the first of their Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) product family - the ATM 25 transceiver with on-chip filters.
Clear Lucite paperweight is pyramid shaped, and has a white base.
The actual Seeq 5516A chip embedded inside is a 24-pin ceramic DIP package.
SEEQ started as a manufacturer of CMOS integrated circuits . Ethernet was the dominant local area network (LAN) technology that was originally developed by Xerox, Intel and Digital Equipment Corporation in the late 1970s. SEEQ would concentrate their efforts on the emerging Fast Ethernet marketplace. As an Ethernet (10 Mbps) silicon pioneer, Seeq introduced the industry's first Ethernet chipset in 1982.
Their high-endurance, high reliability, "Q-Cell" EEPROM Memory technology was first announced in 1984 by Seeq Technology, and used their proprietary Silicon Oxynitride (MOS) manufacturing process.
Seeq founders developed EPROM and EEPROM devices in competition with their former employer Intel. Extended litigation with Intel and other problems led to the sale of the company assets to Atmel Corporation in 1994. In 1994 the Company had restructured its operations by selling its memory product line. .
By 1998, SEEQ Technology had transformed itself into a leading semiconductor designer and manufacturer of Data Communication products, shipping more than 17 million LAN chips.
Seeq introduced the industry's first Full Duplex Ethernet chip in November 1992, as well as the industry's first Fast Ethernet (100 Mbps) four-port controller in September 1994. In March 1995, Seeq introduced the first of their Asynchronous Transfer Mode (ATM) product family - the ATM 25 transceiver with on-chip filters.
Clear Lucite paperweight is pyramid shaped, and has a white base.
Seeq Technology 5516A 16k high endurance EEPROM
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