Panafacom

Panafacom MN1610

Panafacom was a Japanese microprocessor design firm formed on 2 Jul 1973 by a consortium including Fujitsu, Fuji Electric and Matsushita (Panasonic). The company was formed to design and manufacture the MN1610, a 16-bit microprocessor. It was released in April 1975, beating the Texas Instruments TMS9900 to become the world's first single-chip 16-bit microprocessor.^[1]

The design saw relatively little use and remains largely unknown in the computer field. In 1987, Panafacom was merged with to form today's PFU Limited.^[2]

References[]

^ "16-bit Microprocessors". CPU Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2010.
^ "History". PFU. Retrieved 5 October 2010.

External links[]

MN1613: A description (in Japanese) of the MN1613 processor.

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[1] "16-bit Microprocessors". CPU Museum. Retrieved 5 October 2010.

[fujitsu-2] "History". PFU. Retrieved 5 October 2010.

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