Smartphones would not employ commercially viable fingerprint authentication until 2013. E-commerce was nascent; Amazon’s U.S retail market share was less than 1/10% Today it is over 5%. Cell phones were flip phones that ONLY made calls and sent texts - no pictures, no Internet, no e-commerce, no security.
According to Alan Niebel, 22 year Flash veteran and CEO of WebFeet Research, “On the 10th anniversary of the iPhone, it's appropriate to credit the technologies that made smartphones possible. George Perlegos’ vision, hard work, and technical acumen contributed directly and substantially to the way we live today, and the way we will live in the future. The explosion of the Internet of Things is another example. Many of those “things” that are controlled using the Internet are based on self-programming Flash MCUs, one of George's patents. That allows them to sense, take action, communicate and take instructions via the Internet."
Today, Mr. Perlegos is thinking about the next 20 years of innovation in technology and medical research.
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About George Perlegos.
George Perlegos is trustee of the George and Angeliki Perlegos Charitable Trust, which provides grants to promote scientific advances toward the treatment and cure of progressive diseases such as IgA nephropathy and degenerative diseases (Parkinson’s, ALS, MS, etc), and to promote research in technology directions. He is also Chairman of the Perlegos Capital Management LP investment group. He attended San Jose State University (BSE, 1972) and Stanford University (MSE, 1975). He resides in Fremont, CA.
Mr. Perlegos founded three successful semiconductor companies: SEEQ Technologies (1974), Chips and Technology (1984), and Atmel (1984). Atmel was acquired by Microchip (MCHP) in 2016.) Mr. Perlegos holds 16 patents for innovations in memory technology and device physics.
Additional information is available at www.georgeperlegos.com.
1 A Revolution in Progress: A History of Intel to Date, (Intel Corporation, 1984), p. 22.
Nancy B. Green The William Baldwin Group +1 650 856 6192 nbgreen@william-baldwin.com John Bryant George and Angeliki Perlegos Charitable Trust +1 408 857 7312 jbryant@brianti.com
