Finally, I can call myself an inventor.
I've been inventing things for almost 20 years now, but Montalvo Systems was the first company I worked for that took intellectual property seriously. (That was no coincidence; it was also the first company I worked for where I helped develop the intellectual-property strategy.)
During my years at Montalvo, I came up with quite a few ideas and participated in brainstorming sessions that yielded more ideas. Most of these sessions were limited to Montalvo's own people, but there was one person I brought in to help us as a consultant--Don Alpert, who was the principal architect of Intel's Pentium processor and, possibly less significantly, a member of the editorial board at Microprocessor Report.
Working with three of us from Montalvo--myself and chief architects Greg Favor and Peter Song--Don took the lead in preparing a set of related patent applications describing a new way to design microprocessors.
The first patent from this set was ... Read more
Yes, it's over. Montalvo Systems, the company I named and helped lead, is no more.
As Michael Kanellos said in this blog post yesterday, Sun Microsystems announced that it is buying Montalvo's assets, and that's the end of that.
I've asked for some clarification on what I'm allowed to say about Montalvo. There's a lot to say, and I don't think there's anyone else to say it.
So stay tuned; you'll be hearing more about it.
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