ThStyme Inc, the technology company formed by Commodore Pet developer and Victor Technologies Inc founder Chuck Peddle, has announced a deal with Nauchny Tsentr, Russia’s former aeronautic electronics conglomerate. The joint venture, to be known as Unified Technologies, is aimed at transforming this Russian answer to Silicon Valley, in the Moscow suburb of Zelenograd, into a world class producer of semiconductors, peripherals and other computer products. THStyme will act as the exclusive distributor for these Russian-manufactured goods to the world market; Unified Technologies meanwhile will market THStyme products in Russia. The project will be officially launched in Moscow next month, with the first shipments of computer products to the West due in late 1992. Some 20,000 researchers at the base are already working on a top secret new THStyme product set for launch next spring, which Peddle promises will change the way that people use computers.
