Title
Weitek oral history panel
Catalog Number
102746380
Type
Document
Description
This oral history involves an interview with 4 of the key personnel involved in the founding and product development at Weitek. They describe their motivations for forming the company, their business model and financing, and their early product development successes. Key challenges included being an early fabless semiconductor company before the foundry business was fully established. They also discuss the various reasons why Weitek was not successful over the long term.
Date
2012-02-15
Contributor
Baker, G. Leonard, Jr., Panelist
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Fairbairn, Doug, Editor
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Farnow, Stephen, Panelist
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House, David, Moderator
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Roach, Everett, Panelist
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Sun, Edmund, Panelist
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Publisher
Computer History Museum
Place of Publication
Mountain View, CA, USA
Extent
38 p.
Category
Transcription
Subject
semiconductor history; Qume; Calma Company; Collmeyer, Art; Lodge, Gerry; Innoven; Doerr, John; floating point units (FPU); coprocessor; Girand, Jeff; chromodynamics; VLSI Technology; SPARC; Sun Microsystems, Inc.; Oxaal; C-Cube; PostScript; Nvidia; S-3
Collection Title
Oral history collection