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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (491412)	6/29/2009 6:48:32 AM
From: Taro	Respond to of 1575737

Jack Gifford initiated AMD. He wanted it to be an analog company starting with second sourcing NSC and Fairchild at a higher product quality level. He put in some seed money together with a couple of buddies, hired a large building and put together a business plan. Started looking for VC funding but got turned down repeatedly with the good advise to find a better CEO (than him) for the company. While he was running out of money, Sanders got fired from Fairchild. Jack brought him in as the (temporary, 'I'll dump him later') CEO and they got the funding. That done, Gifford's plans to dump Jerry back fired and in stead he became the dumpee. Before that Sven Simonsen, a digital designer of the 9300 TTL family at Fairchild, joined and (against Jack's will) they decided to go digital as well. Yes, Ed Turney was a member of the early team, Terry Jones joined later. I knew them all real well and used to go skiing in Kitzbuhl with Jack for may years. Taro BTW, Fairchild had typical reject rates of up to 30% for 9300 MSI products like the 9316 and AMD easily grabbed a large part of their sockets.