05-01 Hero of Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month is Weili Dai, Co-Founder of Marvell
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| Audience/Grade: | College Freshman-Continuing Education |
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Computer Engineering Computer Science Computing Diversity Design Electrical Engineering Engineering Diversity Engineering Management General Engineering, Engineering Science |
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Women and Information Technology |
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Alice Agogino |
| Description: | Engineering Pathway's blog for May - Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month. Excerpt: The Engineering Pathway profiles Weili Dai, Co-Founder of the Marvell Technology Group, Ltd and Vice President and General Manager of Communications and Consumer Business, as our hero for Asian-Pacific American Heritage month. A graduate of UC Berkeley’s Computer Science program, she is considered one of the most successful women entrepreneurs in the world. Newsweek named her one of the “150 Women Who Shake the World“. She also has the distinction of being the only female co-founder of an American semiconductor company. Marvell is a leading global semiconductor company, providing expertise in integrated analog and digital chip design with a large portfolio of broadband communications and storage solutions. The company started in 1995 and has grown from a three-person (Weili Dai and her husband Sehat Sutardja and his brother Pantas Sutardja), family-funded start-up to a multi-billion-dollar technology company with 7,000 employees. In 2004 Dai and the Sutardjas were recognized by the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award. Weili Dai explains the importance of Marvell using a pizza analogy in a CNN interview: “We are the pizza dough. The tomato sauce are different operating systems…and the toppings are the applications. Essentially we are the one-stop shop providing the guts of the electronic products.” |
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| Keywords: | Weili Dai Marvell Technology Group Marvell Asian-Pacific American Heritage |
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"Today in History" Blog of the Engineering Pathway Digital Library |
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