Castle Technology
Computer company based in Cambridge, England / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Castle Technology Limited, named after Framlingham Castle,[1] was a British computer company based in Cambridge, England.[2] It began as a producer of ARM computers and manufactured the Acorn-branded range of desktop computers that run RISC OS.[3]
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Company type | Private |
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Industry | Computer hardware Computer software |
Founded | 4 June 1993 (1993-06-04) Colchester, England |
Founder | John Ballance Jack Lillingston Peter Wild |
Defunct | 2018 |
Successor | RISC OS Developments Ltd |
Headquarters | , |
Area served | Worldwide |
Key people | Jack Lillingston, Managing Director Peter Wild, Operations Director John Ballance, Technology Director |
Products | Iyonix PC RISC OS RISC PC |
Divisions | Tematic |
Website | Castle-Technology.co.uk |
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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.[4] Castle Technology later released the Iyonix PC in November 2002,[5] 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.[6]