Dave Baker

David Baker grew up on a ranch in New Mexico. He received his BSEE from New Mexico State University and his MSE and PHD in ECE from the University of Texas, Austin. His area of researcłh interest was computer vision and image processing. He began his career on a super- computer design at Texas Instruments, competing with Cray. While there, he worked on the design of the TI TMS9900 and TMS99000 MCU chips. He joined IBM and vworked on various internal prOcessors as well as the ISA development for ROMP(801), PowerPC, arnd RS6000. While working for IBM Research he was part of the original AIX hypervisor implementation team and later the GL to OpenGL ports to RS6000. Subsequently he has spent 25 years doing startups includirng two IPOs and two acquisitions, at places like SigmaTel, NVidia, Brooktree, and Legerity. Along the way, he was VP of engineering for 3 different VLIW DSP companies and worked on micro- architectures and ISAs for almost all of his career to date.