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Bipolar Integrated Technology was a semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 company based in Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland, Oregon in the Tualatin River Valley., its population is estimated to be 86,205, almost 14% more than the United States Census, 2000 figure of 76,129....
 which sold products implemented with ECL
ECL

ECL may stand for:*ECL programming language, an extensible programming language developed at Harvard*Eastern Counties Football League, a football league in East Anglia, England...
 technology. The company was founded in 1983 by former Floating Point Systems
Floating Point Systems

Floating Point Systems Inc. was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad....
, Intel, and Tektronix
Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc. is a United States company best known for its test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment....
 engineers. The company was later renamed BIT Inc..

The initial product was a Floating point
Floating point

In computing, floating point describes a system for numerical representation in which a String of digits represents a rational number.The term floating point refers to the fact that the radix point can "float": that is, it can be placed anywhere relative to the Significant figures of the number....
 coprocessor
Coprocessor

A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor . Operations performed by the coprocessor may be floating point arithmetic, graphics, signal processing, string processing, Savitsky-Golay derivation, or encryption....
 chip set. Later, the company produced the B5000 SPARC
SPARC

SPARC is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer microprocessor instruction set Computer architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems....
 ECL microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
 (never reached production in a Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
 product, though used by Floating Point Systems
Floating Point Systems

Floating Point Systems Inc. was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad....
) and the R6000 MIPS
MIPS architecture

MIPS is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by MIPS Technologies . In the mid to late 1990s, it was estimated that one in three RISC microprocessors produced were MIPS implementations....
 ECL microprocessor (which did reach production as a MIPS minicomputer
Minicomputer

A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems ....
).






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Bipolar Integrated Technology was a semiconductor
Semiconductor

A semiconductor is a material that has electrical conductivity between those of a Electrical conductor and an electrical insulation; it can vary over that wide range either permanently or dynamically....
 company based in Beaverton, Oregon
Beaverton, Oregon

Beaverton is a city in Washington County, Oregon, Oregon, United States, seven miles west of Portland, Oregon in the Tualatin River Valley., its population is estimated to be 86,205, almost 14% more than the United States Census, 2000 figure of 76,129....
 which sold products implemented with ECL
ECL

ECL may stand for:*ECL programming language, an extensible programming language developed at Harvard*Eastern Counties Football League, a football league in East Anglia, England...
 technology. The company was founded in 1983 by former Floating Point Systems
Floating Point Systems

Floating Point Systems Inc. was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad....
, Intel, and Tektronix
Tektronix

Tektronix, Inc. is a United States company best known for its test and measurement equipment such as oscilloscopes, logic analyzers, and video and mobile test protocol equipment....
 engineers. The company was later renamed BIT Inc..

The initial product was a Floating point
Floating point

In computing, floating point describes a system for numerical representation in which a String of digits represents a rational number.The term floating point refers to the fact that the radix point can "float": that is, it can be placed anywhere relative to the Significant figures of the number....
 coprocessor
Coprocessor

A coprocessor is a computer processor used to supplement the functions of the primary processor . Operations performed by the coprocessor may be floating point arithmetic, graphics, signal processing, string processing, Savitsky-Golay derivation, or encryption....
 chip set. Later, the company produced the B5000 SPARC
SPARC

SPARC is a Reduced Instruction Set Computer microprocessor instruction set Computer architecture originally designed in 1985 by Sun Microsystems....
 ECL microprocessor
Microprocessor

A microprocessor incorporates most or all of the functions of a central processing unit on a single integrated circuit . The first microprocessors emerged in the early 1970s and were used for electronic calculators, using Binary-coded decimal arithmetic on 4-bit Word ....
 (never reached production in a Sun Microsystems
Sun Microsystems

Sun Microsystems, Inc. is a multinational corporation vendor of computers, computer components, computer software, and information technology services, founded on February 24, 1982....
 product, though used by Floating Point Systems
Floating Point Systems

Floating Point Systems Inc. was a Beaverton, Oregon vendor of minisupercomputers. The company was founded in 1970 by former Tektronix engineer Norm Winningstad....
) and the R6000 MIPS
MIPS architecture

MIPS is a RISC instruction set architecture developed by MIPS Technologies . In the mid to late 1990s, it was estimated that one in three RISC microprocessors produced were MIPS implementations....
 ECL microprocessor (which did reach production as a MIPS minicomputer
Minicomputer

A minicomputer is a class of multi-user computers that lies in the middle range of the computing spectrum, in between the largest multi-user systems and the smallest single-user systems ....
). The manufacture of these processors were never really reliable, thus making them prohibitively expensive when compared to competing CMOS
CMOS

Complementary metal?oxide?semiconductor , is a major class of integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, Static Random Access Memory, and other digital logic circuits....
 products. The company entered the telecommunications market with ATM
Asynchronous Transfer Mode

Asynchronous Transfer Mode is an electronic digital data transmission technology. ATM is implemented as a network protocol and was first developed in the mid 1980s....
 devices and ethernet
Ethernet

Ethernet is a family of Data frame-based computer networking technologies for local area networks . The name comes from the physical concept of the Luminiferous aether....
 switches. The company was eventually acquired by PMC-Sierra
PMC-Sierra

PMC-Sierra is a fabless semiconductor company which develops and sells devices into the communications, storage, printing, and embedded computing marketplaces....
 in 1996 for these later communications products.