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Non-Tech : Kirk's Market Thoughts
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To: robert b furman who wrote (5434)1/12/2018 10:02:39 AM
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Broadcom... is the part of HP/Agilent/Avago that I worked at.
Michael Hurlston, a former Broadcom executive, has been appointed CEO and a director, effectively immediately.
In fact, they still advertise the product I designed and was the project leader soon after graduating in 1979.

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Last month I went to an annual "Holiday party" with a group I worked with back then.... had a nice chat with the manager who was in charge of that IC Fab about a new design he came up with for a home improvement product... he was SO TOUGH that it was like a major honor to pass his tests to have him accept your design for manufacturing and, hopefully, eventual sale. So nice to see those people again.

One of the reasons I've been SO PASSIONATE about high corporate taxes forcing jobs out of CA and then the US is that product was originally designed on a 2" process we had on site at Page Mill Road, Stanford land in Palo Alto. We converted it to 3" and moved it to San Jose for other chips that I designed but it became too expense to keep building fabs in California so they eventually outsourced the chips... but it is still cool to see something I went on a marketing trip to help come up with the target data sheet way back then to come up with target specs for a new product idea... then see it still selling today with the same data sheet (but much cheaper IC processes I am sure!)

[I little bird told me the hermetic version of that product is used in the Cruise Missile.... it optically isolates data taken by sensors from the computer guiding the missle so a lightning strike or static won't take out the guidance electronics]

2" Bipolar IC process... that is what they had when I was a summer intern in 1978... at the holiday lunch last year was an older analog IC design engineer who one of my mentors and had the responsibility of making SPICE models for the IC process... Back then, we didn't even have terminals on our desks... we shared them and submitted SPICE simulations of our designs over the network to bigger computers at places like UC! Wow the memories flow back!
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