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Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where LSI Logic comes up
NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang · Acquired
- ▶ 1:13:43 Jensen Huang You know, if, if it wasn't because of Chris and Curtis convincing me to do, do NVIDIA, I would still be at LSI Logic today, I'm certain of it.
- ▶ 1:13:56 Jensen Huang I would keep doing what I'm doing, and at the time that I was there, I was completely dedicated and focused on, on helping LSI Logic be the best company it could be, and I was LSI Logic's best ambassador.
- ▶ 1:14:08 Jensen Huang I've got great friends that, to this day, that I've known from, from LSI Logic.
- ▶ 1:14:44 Jensen Huang Ed Frank that I, I was with the other day, and just, I mean, the list goes on, and, and so, uh, uh, LSI Logic was really important to me, and, and, uh, I would still be there.
- ▶ 1:14:54 Jensen Huang I, I would, you know, who knows what LSI Logic would have become if I were still there, right?
- ▶ 1:15:17 David Rosenthal I got the sense that, um, LSI Logic might have also changed your, um,
- ▶ 1:15:42 Jensen Huang What LSI Logic did was, was, uh, realized that you can express
- ▶ 1:17:02 Jensen Huang so I, I saw one industry, um, change, revolutionize another industry, and if not for LSI Logic doing the work that it did, uh, synopsis shortly after, then why would the computer industry be where it is today?
- ▶ 1:17:25 David Rosenthal And it sounded like the CEO of LSI Logic, uh, put a good word in for you, uh, with Don Valentine.
- ▶ 1:18:42 Jensen Huang He called up Don Valentine and told Don, you know, invest in this kid and, um, he's going to come your way.
Qualcomm · Acquired
- ▶ 1:47:57 Ben Gilbert So Avago buys Broadcom, takes Broadcom's name, buys some other stuff like LSI Logic.
- ▶ 1:48:03 David Rosenthal LSI Logic.
The Playbook: Lessons from 200+ Company Stories · Acquired
- ▶ 23:57 David Rosenthal Jensen was at LSI Logic, and his two co-founders were from Sun.
Nvidia: The GPU Company (1993-2006) · Acquired
- ▶ 14:40 David Rosenthal He works all the time that he's at AMD and then at LSI logic where he goes to, we're going to talk about in a sec.
- ▶ 16:58 David Rosenthal His office me at AMD leaves and goes to join a startup called LSI logic, which had just gotten public and we've talked about it on the show made Don Valentine and Sequoia the then largest venture return in an IPO in history, maybe the…
- ▶ 17:48 David Rosenthal So what was LSI?
- ▶ 17:50 David Rosenthal It was one of the first, and was sort of the premiere,
- ▶ 18:01 David Rosenthal And so what they did and what that meant was they basically made custom design chips for other companies.
- ▶ 18:09 David Rosenthal And the custom design chips that they would make these Asics would be like for a very, very specific function that would be integrated into other systems.
- ▶ 18:19 David Rosenthal Defense companies, Lockheed Martin, and the like, um, but lots of other companies now, too, are coming to LSA Logic and the other ASICS companies and saying, hey, we want to create these systems of chips.
- ▶ 19:46 David Rosenthal Jensen, when he shows up at LSI, Sun is like just starting and coming to LSI, and so he gets put on the project.
- ▶ 20:07 David Rosenthal Over the next few years, he pretty much exclusively works with Sun while he's at LSI Logic,
- ▶ 21:46 David Rosenthal And you know, remember this is the era of Sun, Alice A Logic, all this stuff.
- ▶ 27:03 David Rosenthal Jensen goes to the CEO of LSI Logic, walks into his office, and tells him that he's gonna resign.
- ▶ 27:18 David Rosenthal Now, do you know who the CEO of LSI Logic was?
- ▶ 27:35 Ben Gilbert So is that how Don, cause Don Valentine obviously was the biggest investor in, or Sequoia was, in LSI Logic, and he, did he know him from Fairchild?
- ▶ 1:40:12 David Rosenthal You know, and Jensen really saw this back in his AMD days before going to LSI logic, but the ability for NVIDIA to use an emulator, a software emulator to design their chips, and then of course the massive, massive strides that the EDA…