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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 3)

Posted on Wednesday, Aug 22nd

SM: Where did you go after Stanford? EB: The first company that offered me a job was Zilog. They were the second microprocessor company in Silicon Valley; Intel was the first one. The inventor of the microprocessor, Federico Faggin had left Intel and founded Zilog. I joined him about 12 to 18 months after he

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The Next Big Innovation in Microprocessors: Anant Agarwal (Part 1)

Posted on Monday, Aug 20th

I write this series with great pleasure, as my former graduate school advisor and renowned MIT professor Anant Agarwal unveils his so far stealth-mode company Tilera this week. Tilera could well be the next big breakthrough in processor design. SM: Anant, please give us some background on where you come from. AA: Growing up, I

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