1. Diosdado P Banatao was born on May 23,1946 and is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chipset for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT, and one of the first graphical user interface accelerators for personal computers.
Dado Banatao pursued his secondary education at the Jesuit-run Ateneo de Tuguegarao.
Dado Banatao joined Philippine Airlines as a trainee pilot, and later joined Boeing.
Dado Banatao joined the Homebrew Computer Club, where he met Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak.
Dado Banatao was credited for the first system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT; the local bus concept and one of the first the first GUI accelerator chips for personal computers.
Dado Banatao developed system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT.
Dado Banatao earned $12 million in its first four months.
In 1989, Dado Banatao launched his third start-up company, S3 Graphics, with Yara in Santa Clara, California.
Dado Banatao had an initial public offering of $30 million.
Dado Banatao later sold another company for more than $1 billion, where it had less than 20 employees.
Dado Banatao was part of SiRF, where it started the consumerization of GPS after it had been declassified by the US Government.
In 2010, Dado Banatao became Ikanos Communications' CEO after Michael Gulett resigned as the company's CEO and President.
Dado Banatao built a computer center at his grade school in his childhood town of Iguig in Cagayan Valley, making it the only public school with the most modern computer network in the Philippines.