Editing Mostek (section)

==World leader in telecommunications products==
Mostek enjoyed many years of mastery of the international market for telecommunications products. Their product line included telephone tone and pulse dialers, [[touchtone]] decoders, counters, top-octave generators (used by [[Hammond organ|Hammond]], [[Baldwin Piano Company|Baldwin]], and others), [[CODEC]]s, watch circuits, and a host of custom products for a variety of customers. The products used the simple [[aluminum-gate|aluminium-gate]] [[PMOS logic|PMOS]] (& later aluminium-gate [[CMOS]]) process and helped maintain Mostek's cash flow through intense DRAM competition, and other semiconductor market pressures. In 1975 a smoky fire in the [[wafer fabrication|wafer fab]] closed it for several months and production of some critical products was shifted to a friendly fab ([[Synertek]]) in Silicon Valley.

Several employees played a key role in the Telecommunications and Industrial Products Department. Bob Paluck headed the department and later Dave Seeler, assisted by Mike Callahan, Charles Johnson, William Bradley, Robert C. Jones, Bob Banks, Ted Lewis, Darin Kincaid, and William Cummings. Telecom marketing was handled by John Crago, Randall Hopkins, and Henry Wasik. Lewis and Bradley were designated as key employees after the United Technologies purchase.

Bradley designed all of the custom products based on the single-chip-calculator platform, as well as the code for the wristwatch chips produced by Mostek for [[Bulova]] and other customers. For a short while, Paluck headed a joint venture called Mostek Hong Kong, a collaboration with Bulova for the production of high-end wristwatches based on Mostek designs. Bradley was an employee of that joint venture. Paluck left Mostek to work with [[Sevin Rosen Funds]] and [[Convex Computer]]. As Mostek's focus was shifted to its DRAM products, the industrial and telecommunications products were ignored and their market share vanished.