Dado Banatao
Dado Banatao was born in Iguig, Luzon, Philippines on May 23rd, 1946 and is the Entrepreneur. At the age of 77, Dado Banatao biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 26, 1946 in the small town of Malabbac, Philippines) is a Filipino-American entrepreneur and engineer who works in the high-tech industry, along with the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, IBM's first system logic chip set, and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers.
He co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics, a three-time start-up veteran.
Salvador Banatao, his father, was a rice farmer.
Rosita Banatao, his mother, was a housekeeper.Banatao is best known for his rags to riches tale.
He walked barefoot on a dirt road to Malabbac Elementary School as a boy growing up.
He continued his secondary education at Ateneo de Tuguegarao, a Jesuit-run institution.
He obtained his Bachelor of Science in Electric Engineering from the Mapa Institute of Technology, and he was lauded for his success in college.
He joined Philippine Airlines as a trainee pilot and was later pirated by Boeing.
He worked as a design engineer for Boeing's latest commercial airliner and cargo transport aircraft, Boeing 747 in the United States.
With the opportunity to remain in the United States, he earned his Master of Science in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science at Stanford University and graduated in 1972.
Banatao spent time at the Homebrew Computer Club, where he worked with Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak before starting his master's degree. Commodore International is a technology company that developed the first single chip, 16-bit microprocessor-based calculator.
When working in Seeq Technology, he created the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip.
He was also responsible for the introduction of the first system logic chip for IBM's PC-XT and PC-AT; the local bus system; and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers.
Career
Banatao and his business partner Francis Siu formed Moston, a high-technology firm that started with a half-million US dollars. Mostron was first introduced as a motherboard manufacturer. Ron Yara of Intel also worked as a company executive, and they also recruited Ron Yara of Intel as a company executive. Chips and Technologies co-founded in 1985 after he created a five-chip set. For IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT, the company created a system logic chip set. In the first four months, the company earned $12 million. The company went public after 22 months. Banatao's third start-up firm, S3 Graphics, was founded in 1989 with Yara in Santa Clara, California. S3 concentrated on improving the graphic capabilities in personal computers by using a graphic accelerator chip. Banatao's development of a local bus was the catalyst to this. The company was a first public offering of $30 million. In 1996, the firm became the market leader in the graphic chip industry, defeating Cirrus Logic, Inc., a major competitor. Chips & Technologies was sold to Intel for $300 million last year. In 2000, he decided to start Tallwood Venture Capital with a US$300 million capital base, a portion of which came out of his own pocket. He later sold another company for more than $1 billion, although it had less than 20 employees. After being declassified by the US Government, Dado was also a member of SiRF, where it began with GPS consumerization.
After Michael Gulett resigned as the company's CEO and President in 2010, Banatao became Ikanos Communications' CEO.
Banatao is a Filipino student who excel in engineering and technology annually. The Dado Banatao Educational Foundation gives five educational scholarships to outstanding Filipino students with promising futures. In addition, he is assisting brilliant young Filipinos in reaching their full potential with the Philippine Development Foundation, which he chairs. PhilDev was spun off from Ayala Foundation's programme. He supports Californian high school students of Filipino origins who want to study engineering at a college level through the Banatao Filipino American Fund. He also built a computer center at his grade school in Iguig, Cagayan Valley's hometown, making it the country's only public school with the most modern computer network.