Bill Siegle
William T. (Bill) Siegle received his BSEE, MSEE and Ph.D. all from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. He joined IBM in 1964, the year IBM announced the historic System 360. Bill held a number of technical, management and executive roles at IBM in Poughkeepsie, Burlington, Vt, E. Fishkill and Armonk, New York. He was Director of the Advanced Technology Center in E. Fishkill which created the ASTC, IBM’s premier technology development platform through the 1990s. In 1990 he was recruited to Advanced Micro Devices in Sunnyvale, California, where he was appointed Vice President and Chief Scientist. He directed the development of AMD’s technology platforms for logic and flash memory products, which enabled leading edge product production in new wafers fabs in Austin, Texas, Aizu-Wakamatsu, Japan, and Dresden, Germany. In 1998 he was promoted to Sr. Vice President, responsible for AMD’s world-wide manufacturing operations in addition to his continuing role as Chief Scientist. Bill served as a member of the Board of Directors of SRC and as its chairman in 1993. He also has served on the Board of Directors of Sematech, and has been a Director of the public companies, Etec, Inc. and DuPont Photomask, Inc. He retired from AMD in April, 2005. He currently serves on the Board of Family Supportive Housing, a San Jose based non-profit dedicated to serving homeless families in the San Jose area, and also continues a limited consulting role in the industry. Bill resides in Los Gatos, California with his wife, Marylee. They have 3 grown children.
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