In 1980, he co-founded IDT with two former classmates. "We were the first company to believe that high-speed, low-power CMOS [complementary metal-oxide semiconductor] chips would become an important technology," he explains. "In those days, neither Intel nor AMD were optimistic about them.
1980 年，他和兩位同學創辦 IDT 公司，「我們是第一家認為高速、低耗能的 CMOS（互補金屬氧化半導體影像製程）將主導未來技術主流的公司，當時連英特爾、超微都不看好。