Rob Walker (1935-2016) was a Silicon Valley native and Silicon Valley educated electrical engineer who was involved with semiconductors since the 1960s at Fairchild, Intel and as a founder of LSI Logic. He also founded the Silicon Genesis oral history series. His collection contains presentation slides, reports, sales material, and other documentation from from LSI Logic Corp.; articles and papers given by him; documents from Fairchild Semiconductor; specifications from Lawrence Livermore Laboratories; and documentation from Philco Corp.

Walker is an ASIC (Application specific integrated circuits) consultant and founder of LSI Logic. He is also the author of SILICON DESTINY: THE STORY OF ASIC AND LSI LOGIC CORPORATIONS, CMC Publications (Milpitas, Calif.), 1993.

8 Linear Feet (11 boxes)

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