General Instruments

General Instruments Microelectronics was a division of General Instruments Corporation. GI was a manufacturer of LSI circuits and a pioneer in MOS technology and EAROM (Electrically Alterable ROM), with both off-the-shelf and custom circuits. In 1980, their product catalog included:

• 16-bit Microprocessor: 1600 and 1610, a 16-bit CPU, used in the GIMINI TV-game set and in the Mattel's Intellivision
• 8-bit Microcontroller: The PIC1650, a n-mos chip. The cmos version of this chip is today the core of the Arizona Microchip PIC controllers
• ROM
• EAROM
• Telecommuncations chips

Other products are: SP0256, a single-chip speech generator and the famous AY-3-8910.