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

To: greg nus who wrote (27594)	1/4/1998 7:17:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1570131

<<Paul, Did Intel fire you for the Penang fiasco?>> Greg, since you replied to me with this question, I feel obliged to answer. Here is an example of his "stellar" performance at Intel. I believe it was the first step when he got Intel's "does not meet expectations" and was eventually fired: From P.Engel's biography (as per "Inside Intel" book by Tim Jackson, Chapter 15) ==================================== "One of the more unusual people who joined the company was Paul Engel, a talented chemist fresh from his Ph.D."(p.135) "Engel faced his first real challenge ... Intel's best-selling 1K chips were falling on tests... Engel.. saw immediately that corrosion had caused the chips to fail."(p.136) "...Intel reverted to the old, more expensive form of packaging.... it was costing the company the equivalent of over $8 million a year to hang about while the problem remained unsolved. Engel and his colleagues suddenly began to feel pressure from the top of the company to find an answer quickly. ... the team was ... horrified that they would be fired if they didn't solve the problem."(p.137) "Nearly a year after the problem had first diagnosed a technician named Carl Ito came up with a clue that saved them."(p.137) ========================== Please note that Ph.D. Engel was uncapable to solve the problem for the whole year, but it was a technician who found the answer. I would not keep a Ph.D. with such a problem solving capability. Curiously, my wife suggested the solution in few seconds ("you need to bake the ceramics thoroughly, initially it is water-based") after I just started to describe the problem with water residuals inside those ceramics (CERDIP) packages. Very funny. In addition, Paul's chemical background explains clearly why he is so ignorant in electronics, and why he can barely expound the manufacturing information he ocassionally gets from Intel insiders.