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Manoj Sinha: Fueling the Future
Thomas Wolfe was wrong: You can go home again.
Manoj Sinha left home in Bihar, India, about a decade ago to study electrical engineering at Banaras Hindu University. He earned a master's degree in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, and took a job at Intel Corporation in Austin, Texas.
For two years, he led a global team that was designing the company's smallest computer chip, the Intel Atom processor.
"At one point I learned that, because of hostilities [between Israel and Lebanon in the summer of 2006], the people in Israel were working on this product on their laptops in bunkers," he said. "That was extremely humbling." more >