VLSI Technology oral history panel - Transcript
<p>VLSI Technology was founded in 1980 and was one of the first semiconductor companies to embrace a number of new trends, including user-designed VLSI, advanced design automation, serving the foundry business as a key part of the company’s strategy, and partnering with systems companies as a source of funding. VLSI focused on the cell based portion of the ASIC (Application Specific Integrated Circuit) business. This oral history covers the history of VLSI Technology from before its founding until the successful IPO (Initial Public Offering). The participants include the four founders along with two other early employees, Ken Goldman, CFO and Ron Kasper, VP Sales. The founders discuss the events, both personal and business, that drove them to found VLSI. They describe the unique contributions made by VLSI to the industry as well as the furious activity which led up to the successful public offering only two years after the founding.</p>
Item Details
- Date
- 2012-06-29 (Made)
- Type
- Document
- Catalogue number
- 102746456
- Organization
- Computer History Museum (Publisher)
- People
- Paula Jones (Moderator)
Gunnar Wetlesen (Panelist)
Ron Kasper (Panelist)
Ken Goldman (Panelist)
Dan Floyd (Panelist)
Jack Balletto (Panelist)
Eric Dennis (Videographer)
Doug Fairbairn (Panelist)
Geri Hadley (Moderator) - Category
- Transcript
- Extent
- 52 p.
- Place of publication
- North America/USA/CA/Mountain View
- Language
- English
- Acquisition number
- X6539.2012
- Subject
- Bendix Corporation, VLSI, Xerox PARC, Semiconductor History, ROM, Electronic Design Automation (EDA), Foundry, Synertek
- Archive collection
- CHM Oral History Collection
- Archive hierarchy
- CHM Oral History Collection