WDC

WDC, a 44-year-old company founded in 1978 has decided to enter the Chip War with support for introductory VLSI System-on-Chip (SOC) design and tapeout classes to be taught worldwide in Colleges of Engineering (COE). It is expected that after students learn the basic concepts of Systems-On-Chip (SOC) design with the legendary 6502 technology the students will graduate to RISC-V or ARM solutions for SOCs... The Western Design Center, Inc. (WDC) Founded in 1978 by William D. Mensch, Jr., WDC has licensed its 65xx brand microprocessor Intellectual Property (IP/Cores) to the electronics industry since 1981. WDC is considered a pioneer in the design and licensing of microprocessor technology Intellectual Property (IP) cores and inspired Acorn engineers to create the wildly popular ARMxx series of microprocessors. GTE, Rockwell, MOS Technology, Synertek, and NCR were some of WDC's first licensees. In addition, WDC began selling 65xx brand microprocessor chips to Apple Computer in 1984..

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