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Eric Benhamou & the Turnaround of 3Com (Part 4)

Posted on Thursday, Aug 23rd

SM: You were at Zilog, but their focus was not on networking. EB: Right. We attempted to build a business out of the networking developments. When I say we, I say a few friends who all ended up being significant contributors to the networking industry. They are people like Judy Estrin, Joe Kennedy, Bill Carico,

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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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