{"id":1021346,"date":"2026-07-16T08:37:31","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1021346"},"modified":"2026-07-16T08:54:38","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T03:24:38","slug":"from-a-partition-family-to-silicon-valley-legend-the-indian-engineer-who-left-with-us8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/16\/from-a-partition-family-to-silicon-valley-legend-the-indian-engineer-who-left-with-us8\/","title":{"rendered":"From a partition family to Silicon Valley legend: The Indian engineer who left with US$8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Picture an ordinary day at CompUSA in the early 1990s. A small crowd gathers around two identical-looking computers as a man rings a hand bell, daring shoppers to spot the difference. One machine is running a game or a video clip at a crawl; the other, at speeds that make people audibly gasp. <\/p>\n<p>Before they leave, each shopper is handed a free souvenir, a keychain, its centrepiece a tiny silicon wafer. What almost none of them realise is that the chip dangling from their car keys is a Pentium processor that failed quality control on the factory floor,  too flawed to ever power a real computer,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Picture an ordinary day at CompUSA in the early 1990s. A small crowd gathers around two identical-looking computers as a man rings a hand bell, daring shoppers to spot the difference. One machine is running a game or a video clip at a crawl; the other, at speeds that make people audibly gasp. Before they leave, each shopper is handed a free souvenir, a keychain, its centrepiece a tiny silicon wafer. What almost none of them realise is that the chip dangling from their car keys is a Pentium processor that failed quality control on the factory floor, too flawed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,4,12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1021346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-financial-express","category-newspapers","category-the-financial-express"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1021346"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1021374,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1021346\/revisions\/1021374"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1021346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1021346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1021346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}