Weitek oral history panel
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.
Item Details
- Date
- 2012-02-15 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102746380
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Everett Roach (Panelist)
Jr. Baker (Panelist)
Edmund Sun (Panelist)
Stephen Farnow (Panelist)
David House (Moderator)
Doug Fairbairn (Editor) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 38 p.
- Place of publication
- USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6384.2012
- Subject
- VLSI Technology, Sun Microsystems, Inc., SPARC, Qume, Nvidia, Calma Company, Semiconductor History, PostScript
- Archive collection
- Oral history collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection