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Appian Technology
Semiconductor manufacturing company
ZyMOS Corporation (its name a partial acronym for Zirconium Metal Oxide Semiconductors), later Appian Technology, Inc., was a semiconductor manufacturing company located in Sunnyvale, California. It initially designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits. After the introduction of the IBM PC in the early 1980s, there was strong customer demand for ICs to support the production of IBM PC-AT clones.2 Wikipedia text CC BY-SA 4.0
Last updated Oct 21, 2026.
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- HeadquartersSunnyvale1
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ZyMOS Corporation (its name a partial acronym for Zirconium Metal Oxide Semiconductors), later Appian Technology, Inc., was a semiconductor manufacturing company located in Sunnyvale, California. It initially designed and manufactured custom and semi-custom integrated circuits. After the introduction of the IBM PC in the early 1980s, there was strong customer demand for ICs to support the production of IBM PC-AT clones.2
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