Castle Technology
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| Private | |
| Industry |
Computer hardware Computer software |
| Founded | June 4, 1993 Colchester, England |
| Founder |
John Ballance Jack Lillingston Peter Wild |
| Headquarters | Cambridge, England |
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Area served
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Worldwide |
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Key people
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Jack Lillingston, Managing Director Peter Wild, Operations Director John Ballance, Technology Director |
| Products |
Iyonix PC RISC OS RISC PC |
| Divisions | Tematic |
| Website | Castle-Technology |
Castle Technology Limited, named after Framlingham Castle, is a British computer company based in Cambridge, England. It began as a producer of ARM computers and manufactured the Acorn-branded range of desktop computers that run RISC OS.
Following the break-up of Acorn in 1998, Castle Technology bought the rights to continue production of the RISC PC and A7000+ computers under the Acorn brand. Castle Technology later released the Iyonix PC in November 2002, the first desktop computer to use the Intel XScale microarchitecture and then bought the rights to the RISC OS Technology from Pace in July 2003.
After Acorn withdrew from the desktop computer industry in 1998, Castle Technology acquired the rights to produce the A7000, A7000+ and RISC PC using the Acorn brand.
The Iyonix PC (codenamed Tungsten) was developed as a set-top unit (STU) in secret by engineers at Pace's Shipley campus along with a 32-bit version of RISC OS 4 (known as RISC OS 5). When management discovered the project the campus was closed.
Castle Technology acquired the proposed designs and the original engineers from Pace to further develop the Tungsten into a desktop computer. Robert Sprowson, the original hardware designer, declined to join Castle Technology and so Peter Wild was recruited.
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