The original plan was that an investment of £50 million, to be paid over time, was to create an Anglo-American company with the US end (in Colorado Springs) designing memory devices and creating the process, and the UK, initially in Bristol, developing the transputer and, from a site or sites to be determined, carrying out volume production. The US management and sales force were heavily memory-oriented and didn’t really understand the transputer, so, with limited capacity for test chips and prototypes, the transputer was pushed well down in the queue, adding significant delays to the first family and limiting design exploration for the later products.