Diosdado Banatao (Computer Chips- Mostron and S3)
Diosdado Banatao, better known by his nickname, Dado. He is a genius that gave the world the first Ethernet controller chip that enabled computers to link up and communicate with one another (our internet cable for one) and the first chip set that significantly reduced the complexity of the personal computer. In short, Dado’s innovations made computers cheaper ,faster and more people-friendly.
His father is only a farmer and a housekeeper mother, he grew up in Barrio Malabbac in the farming town of Iguig. He had good grades in math and science during high school therefore he was sent to college at the Mapua Institute of Technology where he graduated as a cum laude with an electrical engineering degree.
Achievements:
1. The prestigious Ernst and Young “Master Entrepreneur of the Year” award in the US.
2. Forbes Magazine has often included him on its “Midas List”
3.With $5000,000 pooled from friends , he started Mostron which came up with the first system logic chipset for the XT and the AT personal computers. (I remember my 486 AT ), which lowered the cost of buiding the PC while making it a powerful machine.
4. In 1996, his second startup “Chips and Technologies” was bought by Intel for a reported $430 million.