1. Walden C "Wally" Rhines was born on November 11,1946 and is an American engineer and businessman.
12 Facts About Wally Rhines
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Wally Rhines earned his bachelor of science in engineering from the University of Michigan in 1968 and his master's degree and Ph.
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Wally Rhines worked at Texas Instruments from 1972 to 1993, serving as executive vice president of the semiconductor group and president of the data systems group.
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Wally Rhines became CEO of Mentor Graphics in 1993, when the company's annual revenue was about $340 million.
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Wally Rhines passed $1 billion in revenue for the first time in 2011.
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Wally Rhines remained as CEO of Mentor, a Siemens Business and later CEO Emeritus through 2020.
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Wally Rhines joined the many-core accelerator chip company Cornami as CEO in March 2020.
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Wally Rhines has been elected five times to serve two-year terms as chair of the Electronic Design Automation Consortium, the international trade association for the EDA industry.
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Wally Rhines is a board member of TriQuint Semiconductor and QORVO.
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Wally Rhines spoke at length with another graduate student, Walden C Rhines, who sat at an adjacent desk in the McCullough Building at Stanford.
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Wally Rhines is listed as a source in books about the evolving semiconductor industry.
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In memory of his father, Wally Rhines endowed a graduate fellowship in Engineering at the University of Michigan in 2016 and four professorships at the University of Florida, including one in 2021 in fully homomorphic encryption in the Herbert Wertheim College of Engineering.