Company:Evergreen Technologies

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Evergreen Technologies, Inc.
TypePrivate
IndustryComputer
FateDissolution
Founded1989; 35 years ago (1989) in Corvallis, Oregon
Defunct2005; 19 years ago (2005)
Number of employees
70 (1997)

Evergreen Technologies, Inc., was a privately owned computer company active from 1989 to 2005 that manufactured a wide variety CPU upgrade chips for x86-based personal computers.[1] Based in Corvallis, Oregon, the company enjoyed a heyday in the 1990s, becoming a market leader in the CPU upgrade segment.[2]:80

History

Evergreen Technologies's 486 SuperChip from 1992

Evergreen Technologies was founded in 1989 by Kenneth "Mike" Magee in Corvallis, Oregon.[3][2]:80 Before founding Evergreen, Magee previously worked as vice president of Software Support Services, a Corvallis-based software vendor; he had also previously founded M.S. Systems, Inc., a computer store in Corvallis.[4][5]:C1 The company's first product, a CPU upgrade module that allowed motherboards with Intel 80286 processors to be upgraded to i386 processors, first shipped in May 1990. In 1992, Evergreen introduced the 486 SuperChip, a CPU upgrade module featuring Cyrix's Cx486 processor that allowed 286-class machines to achieve close to i486-level performance.[6] Evergreen later signed a contract with IBM allowing the latter to capitalize on Evergreen's patents and circuit-board layouts for their 486 upgrade modules, in 1994.[7]

At their heyday in the 1990s, Evergreen's largest competitors included Intel themselves, with their i486 and Pentium OverDrive chips, and Kingston Technology, with their TurboChip.[2]:76 Sales in Evergreen's upgrade modules grew 159-fold between 1993 and 1998;[3] the company sold roughly 40 percent of their products to international buyers.[4]:C1 By mid-1997, Evergreen had expanded to possess four buildings in Corvallis, a manufacturing plant in Portland, Oregon , a sales office in New York City and a regional office in Swindon, England.[4]:C1 Between all locations, the company employed roughly 70 workers in that year.[4]:C1–C2

In early 1999, the company introduced the AcceleraPCI (codenamed the EclipsePCI), an upgrade expansion card allowing motherboards with the Peripheral Component Interconnect (PCI) bus—with processors ranging from late-model DX4s to Pentiums to Pentium Pros—to be outfit with P6-based Celeron processors.[8][9] Development of the AcceleraPCI was Evergreen's most expensive undertaking to date and was highly publicized in the tech press.[3][8]

Evergreen went defunct in 2005.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Rosch, Winn L. (November 8, 1994). "Evergreen Technologies Inc.: Rev to 486; Rev to DX4". PC Magazine (Ziff-Davis) 13 (19): 146. https://books.google.com/books?id=r-5Zq-uW-N8C&pg=PA146. 
  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 Jefferson, Steve; Andy Nelson (July 8, 1996). "Salvaging sunken chips". InfoWorld (IDG Publications) 18 (28): 72–88. https://books.google.com/books?id=ET0EAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA80. 
  3. ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Williams, Elisa (December 28, 1998). "Evergreen: Vision spurs perennial success". The Oregonian: D2. Archived from the original on December 11, 1999. http://archive.today/1999.12.11-223830/http://www.oregonlive.com/technw/9812/tn98122804.html. 
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Moeller, Katy (June 23, 1997). "Cashing In on Chips". Corvallis Gazette-Times: C1, C2. https://www.newspapers.com/article/corvallis-gazette-times-cashing-in-on-ch/129179414/. 
  5. ↑ Anderson, Ronald E.; David R. Sullivan (1988). World of Computing. Houghton Mifflin Company. p. 184. ISBN 9780395435540. https://books.google.com/books?id=uXMTQwZKm38C. 
  6. ↑ Fisher, Susan E. (May 11, 1992). "Evergreen module brings 486SX power to 286 users". PC Week (Ziff-Davis) 9 (19): 33. https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/A12139196/GPS?sid=wikipedia. 
  7. ↑ "Tech Week". The Oregonian: E2. November 11, 1994. https://www.proquest.com/docview/416824045/. 
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Joyce, Edmund K. (December 30, 1998). "Big speed, tiny package". The Sacramento Bee: C3. https://www.newspapers.com/article/the-sacramento-bee-big-speed-tiny-packa/129178769/. 
  9. ↑ Ung, Gordon Mah (December 2000). "Upgrading for the Lazy". Maximum PC (Future Publishing) 5 (12): 83. https://books.google.com/books?id=PgIAAAAAMBAJ&pg=PT88. 
  10. ↑ "Evergreen Technologies, Inc.". OpenCorporates. n.d.. Archived from the original on July 31, 2023. http://archive.today/2023.07.31-055531/https://opencorporates.com/companies/us_or/18335182. 

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