Welcome to "Tekmos Talks December," featuring highlights of 2012 in our quest to reach out to Tekmos clients, engineers, and the semiconductor community. We would like to take this opportunity to thank all of our customers, suppliers, manufacturing representatives, sales people and distributors. This year we had an incredibly exciting year because of all of you, and 2013 looks just as promising.

The year 2012 was a good one for Tekmos.  After the 2011 Sendai Earthquake, Tekmos obtained the rights to the Freescale 68XX microcontrollers.  This year saw us bring these parts into production.  We have made the B, C and J versions of the 68HC05 and the A, D, E, K, and KA versions of the 68HC11 family.  Each family contains memory variations with ROM, without ROM, and with Flash.  Our 80C186/188 EB series went into volume production, and our 89C668 microcontroller hit new production highs.  And while we are not done yet, we are nearing the end of our recreation of the 68020 microprocessor.

We brought out our first 250C ASICs, using a high temperature SOI process.  Rated at 250C, the circuit performed well at 305C during an engineering test.  We can now claim to make the hottest ASIC in the world.  We are developing these high temperature products to serve the oil and aviation markets.  Read More 2012 Highlights... 

We can't wait until 2013.

• Tekmos achieved record shipments of our TK80C188EB, shipped 11 different ROM coded microcontrollers of the TK68HC05J1A, and booked new orders from customers in China for TK80C51FA and TK89C668 products.
•  Shipped production orders of TK68HC11D0 to Sweden and the UK and was awarded ASIC design win to develop and manufacture high voltage custom chip for a major defense subcontractor.    

• Awarded purchase order to manufacture 20,000  TK83C751 microcontrollers for international industrial products company.
• Received design approval for  TK89C668 to replace original P89C668 for industrial measurement company.  Orders for the TK89C668 microcontroller have been increasing monthly in 2012.
•  Shipped over 65,000  TK80C188EB microcontrollers in 2012 for several medical applications.   
•  Provided test services of "Freescale MC68HC11D0
  " products to assist customer with validating working parts in their inventory. Read More 2012 Sales Highlights...