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Founded in 1986 | North Carolina
Mary Whitton
Cofounder
M.S. ee 1984
Nick England
Cofounder
B.S. ee 1969
Tracept’s goal was to develop a flexible, user-programmable, high-performance graphics and imaging accelerator for Sun Microsystems computer workstations. It was acquired in 1987 by Sun Microsystems and integrated into their North Carolina group.