Emmet

Well, it certainly has an outgoing, well, a former CEO and chair who's 93.

I'm talking about Warren Buffett.

And obviously, I'm going to be talking about Berkshire, whereas you're going a little more high tech.

And you're going to talk about Intel, which in my mind, when I hear the word Intel, I think...

the inventor of the mass market processing chip, I think of when in the 90s, computers and laptops were taking off, there was a badge, a tiny little hologram sticker in the bottom right hand corner of the computer or laptop.

which had the words Intel inside.

And even though 99.9% of people hadn't a clue what a processor was or what it did, it was a badge of reassurance and it was the highest quality thing inside this high-tech machine that was now part of our lives.

and lo and behold a lot of time has passed between then and now and the story has gone through a lot of iterations so you said you'd have a little chat about it because there's another interesting chap chapter so what's going on over at intel mike

It was Goliath and then NVIDIA was David.

And there was a time when they were so dominant, they were the only chipset manufacturer at the table, really.

AMD were there.

And as you said, Taiwan Semiconductor were also in the background, but they were the giant.

I was offered a job in Intel when I graduated, Mike, because I used to in college make etch as it's known as preamps, preamplifiers, tiny little matchbox size pot knots that you could plug your electric guitar into before it went into the signal.

As soon as the signal came out of the innards of your electric guitar and basically cranked up the sound.

And that was enough to get a job in Intel.

I mean, this thing was by circuit standards, pretty low tech, and I didn't sell too many of them, but it was enough to get a job offer.

And I went out to Leakslip and in my interview, I think I was asked to draw a Zener diode or something like that.

It was dead easy.

The guy who interviewed me, I don't know if I can say, oh, what the heck, I can't say it.

It's 30 years later.