Ross Technology, Inc was a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, specializing in SPARC microprocessors.
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10 Facts About Ross Technology
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Dr Ross was accompanied by Carl Dobbs, Janet Sooch, Steve Goldstein and Travor Smith, who were from Motorola's High-end Microprocessor Division, and were involved in the development of the 88000 microprocessor.
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Later, Ross Technology was tasked by Cypress to develop the Pinnacle microprocessor, a superscalar SPARC implementation intended to compete with the Sun Microsystems and Texas Instruments SuperSPARC.
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In February 1996, Ross Technology formed Ross Microcomputer in Sonoma, California to produce workstations and servers for value-added resellers and original equipment manufacturers.
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Ross Technology did not have a 64-bit SPARC microprocessor and was at a disadvantage as a result.
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Company's stock fell during this period, and there were several warnings from NASDAQ in 1997 that the company would be delisted, which Ross Technology avoided until 1998, when the company's stock fell below NASDAQ requirements.
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Ross Technology closed down in 1998 and all its assets and patents became the property of Fujitsu Ltd.
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Ross Technology was a significant part of the hardware ecosystem of Sun's SPARC-based systems of the time.
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HyperSPARC processor developed by Ross Technology, viewed first as a competitor to Sun's own SPARC processor designs, but eventually adopted by Sun and sold both as upgrades and system components.
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