Company · Semiconductors · Technology · founded 1930
Texas Instruments
Dallas-based chipmaker whose roots trace to a 1930 seismic services firm; it took its current name in 1951.
Of the 2 people here linked to Texas Instruments, 0 are founders and 0 are still there. 2 of them also appear at Advanced Micro Devices. These are people who succeeded, not the odds of succeeding.
Description and founding year: en.wikipedia.org. Each person's role links to its own source on their profile.
2 people at Texas Instruments
Employee Past
Role
Researcher, then led a task force on wafer processing defects and moved into manufacturing; about six years
Source
· medium confidence. Wikipedia gives the duration (about six years) but no dates; the Computer History Museum profile describes the work.
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Hector Ruiz
Former CEO and chairman, AMD
poor · outsider · graduate degree
Employee Past
Role
Technical staff member, Semiconductor Process and Device Center, 1994–1995
Source
· high confidence
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Lisa Su
Chair and CEO, AMD (Advanced Micro Devices)
professional two-income immigrant family · some · graduate degree
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