Weitek公司曾是家知名的芯片设计业者，该公司最初专注在多种商用微处理器（CPU）的浮点运算单元（FPU）设计，而在1980年初期至中期Weitek公司为平行处理式的超级电脑提供多种高端运算设计。到了1990年初期由于多数的CPU已内置FPU，且基本上FPU功效为免费奉送，这迫使Weitek公司进行一连串的尝试，尝试跨进一般用途性的CPU及GPU的市场领域。此后到1995年Weitek近乎停止营运，随后在1996年由洛克威尔国际（Rockwell International）的半导体系统部门所收购，并快速从市场上消失。

Weitek Corporation was a chip-design company that originally focused on floating-point units for a number of commercial CPU designs. During the early to mid-1980s, Weitek designs could be found powering a number of high-end designs and parallel-processing supercomputers. During the early 1990s most CPU designs started including FPUs built into the system, basically “for free”, and Weitek made a series of attempts to break into the general CPU and graphics driver market. By 1995 the company was almost dead, and in late 1996 the remains were purchased by Rockwell's Semiconductor Systems and quickly disappeared.