John F. (Jack) Gifford—founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Maxim Integrated Products—is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the analog industry. He cofounded Advanced Micro Devices and remained vice president of marketing and planning until he left to become senior vice president and then president/CEO of Intersil Inc. He was also the first director of analog products at Fairchild Semiconductor. His agricultural upbringing and avid interest in technology have led him to a variety of other business activities. He is founder and president of J. Leal Farms and founder and president of Enslie Industries. He was nominated for National Entrepreneur of the Year by Arthur Young in 1988. He received his degree in electrical engineering in 1963 from the University of California, Los Angeles, which he attended on a baseball scholarship. Web site: http://www.maxim-ic.com/
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August 4, 2005[POV: Point Of View] Defining Next-Generation Microcontrollers
Historically, microcontrollers were designed as general-purpose integrated circuits with a relatively standard set of purely digital peripherals such as serial ports and timers. The microcontroller interfaced to several external analog and digital components to implement a targeted application. More recently, the trend has been one of ever-increasing levels of integration, including functional blocks for limited digital signal processing and analog circuitry. Although a case can be made...
January 12, 2004[Technology Report] Visionaries> Jack Gifford
From a strategic standpoint, the United States must do a better job of encouraging more of its youth to enter the engineering field. Engineering simply isn't as popular a discipline in the U.S. today as it was just 20 years ago. Some students pursue...
John F. (Jack) Gifford—founder, chairman, chief executive officer, and president of Maxim Integrated Products—is considered to be one of the founding fathers of the analog industry. He cofounded Advanced Micro Devices and remained vice president of marketing and planning until he left to become senior vice president and then president/CEO of Intersil Inc. He was also the first director of analog products at Fairchild Semiconductor. His agricultural upbringing and avid interest in technology have led him to a variety of other business activities. He is founder and president of J. Leal Farms and founder and president of Enslie Industries. He was nominated for National Entrepreneur of the Year by Arthur Young in 1988. He received his degree in electrical engineering in 1963 from the University of California, Los Angeles, which he attended on a baseball scholarship.
