The Rise And Rise Of The Micro

congenial site for his high technology companies. He also has plans to tackle the highest levels of computer technology via a new firm called Anamartic, which aims to develop a wafer scale electronic memory. British banks have put several million pounds sterling behind the company, which proposes to produce a practical memory on which the chips used are connected on a single wafer, allowing more speed and scope than existing memory devices. Same Sinclair thinking Sinclair must hope that Anamartic will live up to its name, which comes from the Greek for "faultless". His idea of establishing a British presence in wafer scale memory technology is undoubtedly ambitious. The technology is one that other British manufacturers would prob- ably choose to import from Japan or elsewhere, but he did run Europe"s largest calculator manufacturer at a time when that area was thought to be beyond the scope of Britain"s own electronics in- dustry. Anamartic bears clear signs of tra- ditional Sinc...