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Wafer Scale – Trilogy Systems: Part 2
The demise and afterlife of the first Wafer Scale startup.
Trilogy raised over $275m in funding from venture capital ($85m), private investors ($55m), major computer makers ($80) including Honeywell-Bull, Sperry, and DEC, a 1983 Initial Public Offering ($55m), and a large portion of Gene Amdahl’s personal wealth. Business trouble comes in all sizes, rarely bigger for one man than Gene M. Amdahl's quarter-billion-dollar debacle with Trilogy, a company he founded to beat IBM at its own game. … But as misery loves company, his violent, front-page, heroic disaster has joined hands with the ordinary, grinding, slow-death trouble at an outfit called Elxsi.
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