Richard Page is an alumnus of Apple Inc. He was an Apple Fellow at

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in the 1980s, and later joined

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. Rich was one of the first four Apple Fellows. He was awarded the Apple Fellow position for his efforts in graphics software development tools including

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s and hardware development. As an Apple Fellow, Rich prototyped Apple's first portable, color and

68020 The Motorola 68020 ("''sixty-eight-oh-twenty''", "''sixty-eight-oh-two-oh''" or "''six-eight-oh-two-oh''") is a 32-bit microprocessor from Motorola, released in 1984. A lower-cost version was also made available, known as the 68EC020. In keepi ...

based Macintosh computers. He was responsible for the decision to use the Motorola

MC68000 The Motorola 68000 (sometimes shortened to Motorola 68k or m68k and usually pronounced "sixty-eight-thousand") is a 16/32-bit complex instruction set computer (CISC) microprocessor, introduced in 1979 by Motorola Semiconductor Products Sector ...

family of microprocessors for Apple's Lisa and

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computers and was instrumental in the initial design of the Lisa. Rich was the second Fellow at

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contributing to lighting, RRAM and new memory technologies. Rich was President and founder of Next Sierra. Next Sierra was a fabless semiconductor company which developed display drivers for

active matrix Active matrix is a type of addressing scheme used in flat panel displays. In this method of switching individual elements (pixels), each pixel is attached to a transistor and capacitor ''actively'' maintaining the pixel state while other pixels ar ...

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. Rich Page was President and Founder of Sierra Research and Technology, Inc. Sierra provided 622M ATM, 10/100 Ethernet and Giga-bit Ethernet designs to more than 50 semiconductor and system companies. Sierra also provided a number of custom designs for large system companies. Sierra was acquired by TDK Semiconductor in 2000 to substantially expand TDK's networking engineering team. Before founding Sierra, Rich was a co-founder and the Vice President of Hardware Engineering at NeXT Computer, Inc. He led the development of the

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and Turbo NeXTstation products. Later Rich became the general manager of the NeXT Hardware Division which included design engineering, materials management, manufacturing, service, order management and distribution. In 1992, Rich Page left NeXT. Within weeks of his resignation, several NeXT VPs also left. His experience in hardware and software design includes the development of

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for Hewlett-Packard's

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minicomputer series. The HP3000 minicomputer is still in use today. At

Fairchild Semiconductor Fairchild Semiconductor International, Inc. was an American semiconductor company based in San Jose, California. Founded in 1957 as a division of Fairchild Camera and Instrument, it became a pioneer in the manufacturing of transistors and of int ...

, Rich developed test programs for Fairchild's microprocessors, memory products and custom chips. Rich is chairman of the board at Chowbotics Inc, a start-up building food robotics products. The first product is Sally, a salad making robot.

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