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The Man On A Mission To Turn Silicon Valley Into Gallium Valley

2015-09-24 05:21:22| Semiconductors - Topix.net

In 1977, when he was 22 years old, inventor Alex Lidow had the sort of eureka moment most techies would kill for. While in graduate school at Stanford, Lidow co-invented, along with Thomas Herman, a type of device called the HEXFET power MOSFET that would make his family's old company, International Rectifier , more than $930 million in royalties.

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