John Mathieson is a British computer chip designer who initially worked for
Sinclair Research
Sinclair Research Ltd is a British consumer electronics company founded by Clive Sinclair in Cambridge. It was originally incorporated in 1973 as Westminster Mail Order Ltd, renamed Sinclair Instrument Ltd, then Science of Cambridge Ltd, the ...
on the cancelled
Loki
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computer project before co-founding
Flare
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with ex-Sinclair colleagues
Martin Brennan and
Ben Cheese
Ben Cheese (1955 – 21 January 2001) was a British engineer who worked on Sinclair Research Ltd, Sinclair's ZX Microdrives. Authors Ian Adamson and Richard Kennedy, in their book ''Sinclair and the "Sunrise" Technology'', write that "it ...
.
After working at Flare on the ''Flare 1'' and its development into the
Konix Multisystem
The Konix Multisystem was a cancelled video game system under development by Konix, a British manufacturer of computer peripherals.
Background
The Konix Multisystem began life in 1988 as an advanced Konix peripheral design intended to build on th ...
, he worked for
Atari Corporation
Atari Corporation was an American manufacturer of computers and video game consoles. It was founded by Jack Tramiel on May 17, 1984, as Tramel Technology, Ltd., but then took on the Atari name less than two months later when Warner Communica ...
developing the
Atari Panther
The Atari Panther was a cancelled video game console from Atari Corporation that was planned to be the successor to the Atari 7800 and the Atari XEGS. It was developed by the same ex-Sinclair team, Flare Technology, who were previously respon ...
video game console. It was abandoned in favor of its successor, the
Atari Jaguar
The Atari Jaguar is a home video game console developed by Atari Corporation and released in North America in November 1993. Part of the fifth generation of video game consoles, it competed with the 16-bit Sega Genesis, the Super NES and t ...
. The Jaguar was commercially released in the United States on November 23, 1993. Mathieson has been called "the father of the Jaguar."
After leaving Atari, Mathieson worked on the development of the ill-fated
NUON media processor at
VM Labs
VM Labs was a semiconductor and platform company, founded in 1995 in Los Altos, Silicon Valley, California.
The Nuon platform, developed by VM Labs, was a technology used in DVD players from Toshiba, Samsung, and RCA, as well as Motorola's St ...
.
[ He moved to work for ]NVIDIA
Nvidia CorporationOfficially written as NVIDIA and stylized in its logo as VIDIA with the lowercase "n" the same height as the uppercase "VIDIA"; formerly stylized as VIDIA with a large italicized lowercase "n" on products from the mid 1990s to ...
at the end of 2001. As Director of Mobile Systems Architecture at NVIDIA Corp. he led the system architecture team for three generations of the Tegra applications processor.John Mathieson
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References
External links
*http://www.vmlabs.de/team.htm - List of VM Labs team with picture of John
*https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnmathieson/ - Linked-In profile
Sinclair Research
Year of birth missing (living people)
Living people
British computer scientists
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