Who could give a Thumbs down on this interview, Dobby is sharing his knowledge gained over many decades, Knowledge that helped build the most successful analog products and the most Successful Analog Company in the World! I experienced this by working in Linear's Application Group for 23 Years! Bob Swanson, Dobby, Jim Williams, Bob Reay, Bill Gross, The Whole Linear Technology Team Made the Greatest Company in the world!

@lohikarhu734

8 ай бұрын

Man, what a set of mentors! Makes for a memorable career, indeed. I've always found Jim Williams' bench a real inspiration, especially as mine has often been, say, 1/2 as "busy"... creative mind!

This is a great interview of Mr. Dobkin. Would really love to see an interview of Bob Widlar also if there ever was one, which I doubt, but it would be interesting to get a feel for what his character was like.

Mr. Dobkin's analogy (accidental pun) to learning a language, seems to match the long path from writing a few lines of ryhme in early school days, to writing proper paragraphs, to writing a cogent essay on a complex subject... taking those basic tools of spelling and grammar, and *creating* something elegant!

Thanks.

Great interview and great questions by David Laws.

I think that even "digital electronics" has an analog heart... the internals of digital parts are still analog, but dealing with a more limited design "space". They still need to output a voltage, but there's a bit of "give" in the voltage (although, the more ”give" the more trouble in production test "guard bands")

funny hearing Mr. Dobkin talk about the design engineers interacting with customers, for better products...i had worked with semiconductor design teams on 'my' products, so i knew what they could bring to the table..,when i interviewed at "a large semiconductor company", their design team was thrilled with my ideas, but the VP of the group wanted, instead, to drop a 500 page spec, from the sales team, on the design team, and say "build this" with zero interaction with the team. Needless to say, not a position for me...Bob knew, all those years ago, that the design team brought great value to a specification/design!

I could listen to Dobby all day long. Good to hear the Linear story. I only hope the merger with Analog Devices preserves the culture of Linear

@rakka1dude184

6 жыл бұрын

technology is fun.

Wow. Nice interview!

The only mit alumni that he isn't proud to studied in mit or he doesn't care , he build his reputation and his work with his mind not with the reputation of college , what a legend

A true silicon valley genius and early pioneer in the industry.