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I left one of the best jobs in the world because I believed I could build something. That is the immigrant's calculation — you bet on yourself because no one else will.
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The Pentium was not just a chip. It was the moment computing became personal for everyone, not just engineers.
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Hardware is hard. That is why it is worth doing. Software startups can be copied in a weekend. A chip takes three years and a billion dollars.
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India has the engineers. What it has lacked is the ecosystem — the funding, the risk culture, the infrastructure. That is changing faster than anyone expected.
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Competition is a gift. AMD forced Intel to be better. Intel forced AMD to be better. The industry is where it is because neither side could afford to stand still.