Engineering Solutions by Design News Talks About Competing With Intel and Winning

Semiconductor veteran Wally Rhines tells how he competed with Intel in the early days and won.

John Blyler

June 3, 2021

1 Min Read
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It was the early days for those companies that would later become semiconductor giants. The year was 1978, and Walden “Wally” Rhines was in charge of Texas Instrument’s microprocessor business. Intel had just announced the 8086 microprocessor and Motorola the competing 68000 chip. Wally’s mission was to do something to counter that challenge for TI. It looked hopeless, but Wally had an idea. Listen to his resourceful solution on the following podcast.

 

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John Blyler

John Blyler

John Blyler is a former Design News senior editor, covering the electronics and advanced manufacturing spaces. With a BS in Engineering Physics and an MS in Electrical Engineering, he has years of hardware-software-network systems experience as an engineer and editor within the advanced manufacturing, IoT and semiconductor industries. John has co-authored books related to RF design, system engineering and electronics for IEEE, Wiley, and Elsevier. John currently serves as a standard’s editor for Accellera-IEEE. He has been an affiliate professor at Portland State Univ and a lecturer at UC-Irvine.

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