I am going to write several articles about family ancestors, beginning with Gale’s family. She had a great grandfather, Casimiro, who must have been a very interesting fellow. This is her mother’s grandfather. Gale’s mothers mother was Pilar Candeleria,…
Advanced Micro Devices 1976 – We tried to sell the ideas and patent applications we had developed to several semiconductor companies, including AMD. That was not successful, but as we were leaving the AMD conference room one of my ex-coworkers…
At about the same time I was offered the opportunity by my good buddy Kerry to buy his car. This car was the second most special car I ever owned, second only to the blue Corvette. A Mercedes 500 SEC…
I have met several people who also owned 2002 tii cars, and all of them say that they wish they had never sold their car. I liked it a lot, but it was time for a bigger family car. I…
Hubris 1975 – No worries about getting fired though, my ex-boss, Ken Moyle had quit Intersil a year earlier and started a consulting company called Hubris. I joined him in this company and spent a year or so teaching companies…
When I was in fifth grade we were living in Los Alamos New Mexico. Access to the town was restricted to people who lived there or had a need to go into the city, and everyone who did had a…
Silicon Valley Book I wrote Fairchild Intersil 2 short jobs AMD Synergy Tropian GL & Broadcom Silicon Valley Today Work Advice Interviewing Get Noticed Work Suggestions Solving Problems Managing People Family histories Ancestors Marshall’s GGF Wilder History Travels Rome –…
Synergy Semiconductor 1986 – I negotiated a 6 month severance package from AMD and began to look for another job. What I found was George Brown and Tom Wong, associates from AMD, who were starting a design consultancy. George…
Silicon Valley Book I wrote Fairchild Intersil 2 short jobs AMD Synergy Tropian GL & Broadcom Silicon Valley Today Work Advice Interviewing Get Noticed Work Suggestions Solving Problems Managing People Family histories Ancestors Marshall’s GGF Wilder History Travels Rome –…
Silicon Valley Book I wrote Fairchild Intersil 2 short jobs AMD Synergy Tropian GL & Broadcom Silicon Valley Today Work Advice Interviewing Get Noticed Work Suggestions Solving Problems Managing People Family histories Ancestors Marshall’s GGF Wilder History Travels Rome –…