The Amp Hour #632 - Steve Sanghi - Microchip CEO for 31 years

<p>Dave talks with Steve Sanghi, the CEO of Microchip Corporation for 31 years!</p> <p>Check out his new book, <a href= "https://theamphour.com/632-steve-sanghi-microchip-ceo-for-31-years/"> Up and to the Right</a>. How Microchip was built into one of the biggest and most pofitable chip companies in the world.</p> <ul> <li>The early microcontrollers, ROM, EPROM, EEPROM, FLASH</li> <li>Semiconductor Fab's and locations</li> <li>How the US Government CHIPS act is a golden handcuffs trap</li> <li>US/China rhetoric</li> <li>What really happened durign the covid supply chain crisis</li> <li>How 90% of medical devices use Microchip parts</li> <li>Lead times</li> <li>Respect for the chip manufacturers and supply chains</li> <li>Just-In-Time becomes Just-In-Case</li> <li>How the Toyota production system works and how it had to change</li> <li>The impacts of a potential war in Taiwan</li> <li>How does it make sense to make thousands of part variants?</li> <li>The secret to making part varients</li> <li>Why Microchip chose MIPS vs ARM</li> <li>Atmel didn't make any money!</li> <li>Pricing discipline</li> <li>How buying Atmel almost didn't happen, and how Dialog Semiconductor goofed it</li> <li>Draconian NDA terms</li> <li>Atmel was bloated</li> <li>RISC-V plans</li> <li>Customer Driven Obsolescence</li> <li>Foundry vs In-House limitations</li> <li>Open Source FPGA tools?</li> <li>Third party tool support</li> <li>Why not offer free optimised compilers?</li> <li>It's all about black swan events, down cycles, pointy haired bosses, and how All your Cost Bases Beyong To Me</li> <li>Hobbyist vs professionals</li> <li>How Microchip is the largest aerospace chip maker in the world. Nothing leaves earth without a Microchip part in it.</li> <li>Radiation hardended parts</li> <li>Market value profitability</li> <li>Will Microchip ever get acquired</li> <li>Strained US vs China relations</li> </ul>