Mike Farmwald
Mike Farmwald is a successful serial entrepreneur working in the Silicon Valley high-tech industry. He is a partner of Benchmark Capital, a venture capital company.
He has founded these companies:
- FTL (1986) - ECL supercomputers, merged with MIPS Computer Systems
- Rambus (1990) - high speed interfaces, used in PCs and video game consoles
- Chromatic Research (1993) - media-processors, acquired by ATI Technologies
- Epigram (1996) - inventor of HomePNA, a local area network implemented over POTS, acquired by Broadcom
- Matrix Semiconductor (1997) - 3D semiconductors