13 Oct
2008
13 Oct
'08
5:54 p.m.
On 13 Oct 2008 at 18:06, Sridhar Ayengar 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.
Cheers,
Chuck