Henry Samueli
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Broadcom co-founder Henry Samueli was a professor at the UCLA in 1991 when he and Henry Nicholas, his Ph.D. student, started the company, which now designs the chips used in most cable and digital subscriber line (DSL) modems. Broadcom chips are also used in Ethernet transceivers, HDTV receivers and direct broadcast satellite receivers. Samueli joined TRW in 1980 after completing his doctoral thesis at UCLA and worked on military projects involving digital signal processing (DSP), one of which was a high-speed digital radio modem for the US Army. He continued to teach college engineering courses part-time while at TRW and took a full-time position at UCLA in 1985. Samueli is still listed by UCLA as a faculty member on a leave of absence, but he enjoys Broadcom's success and appreciates his ability to create successful careers for 400 engineers, which is something he could not have accomplished in academia.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1999
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Intel's secret is out
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Intel Corp develops the first 1-million-transistor microprocessor for the burgeoning reduced-instruction-set computing (RISC) market. The chip utilizes CMOS technology, a 64-bit architecture and is designed to balance integer and floating point performance. This combination gives it application potential for the supercomputer, graphics workstation and minicomputer industries. Project co-leaders Leslie Kohn and Sai-Wai Fu divided the chip into eight blocks: a RISC core, paging unit, instruction and data caches, floating-point registers, adder and multiplier, and clock. There are 20 innovations on the chip, including floating-point algorithms, for which Intel is seeking patents. Intel expects other microprocessor manufacturers to follow their lead with a new generation of 64-bit products as capabilities beyond RISC integer processing integrated onto a single chip become viable.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1989
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Semiconductors go to Korea
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Four large South Korean semiconductor production companies - Samsung, Hyundai, Lucky-Goldstar, and Daewoo - are developing strong positions on the global marketplace. They maintain strong ties with US companies while they develop new technology. Hyundai lacks experience and has no research and development, so it manufacturers electronics through agreements with US companies. Lucky-Goldstar has experience in consumer electronics and has gained access to digital technology through a contract with AT and T. Samsung has a commitment to research and development and employees engineers in Korea and Santa Clara, County, CA. Daewoo produces PC clones and computer peripherals and owns Zymos, a semiconductor company in the US. The Korean companies have profited during disagreements between the US and Japan, boosting production without cutting prices.
Publication Name: IEEE Spectrum
Subject: Engineering and manufacturing industries
ISSN: 0018-9235
Year: 1987
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