If you’ve got a brilliantly innovative idea that you want to develop for the personal computer hardware market, you need to have some money coming in to help tide you over the development period, and the time-honoured way is to design something quick and simple that everyone needs, like add-on memory boards while the real gizmo is being designed and engineered for market: that is the approach AST Research co-founder Albert Wong has taken with his new company, Amkly Systems Inc – Amkly launched its top-end modular architecture personal computers in March and now wants to get rid of the memory expansion boards and modules for use in IBM PS/2, Compaq Computer Corp and other personal computers and Hewlett-Packard LaserJet printers, and its Irvine, California neighbour Xtend Micro Products Inc has obliged by buying that business on undisclosed terms.
