So lustrous was the name of Bob Widlar in the chip industry that, even though Widlar didn’t work for them Teledyne Semiconductor, which second-sourced Widlar-designed ICs, carried an ad which ran: “Godzilla, alias Bob Widlar, is the well known king of the linear IC underworld. Teledyne, on the other hand, is known as the semiconductor …
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