"scrap" auction...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Tue Oct 14 11:42:36 CDT 2008


On Oct 13, 2008, at 8:54 PM, Chuck Guzis wrote:
>> When Gene Amdahl left IBM to start Amdahl Corp, he started up with
>> capital from Fujitsu.  Eventually, Fujitsu bought the remaining
>> outstanding shares of Amdahl, which has operated as a subsidiary of
>> Fujitsu since 1997.
>
> Whatever happened to Gene's "next" venture--what was it, "Waferscale
> Technology" or some such thing.  I recall that he received what was
> then an almost unheard-of first-round VC financing--something like 27
> million.

   Waferscale was his company?  I didn't know that.  I have quite a  
few of their chips.  I think (but am not certain) that they got  
swallowed up by STMicro.

             -Dave

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Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL





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