Technology >> CEO Interviews >> July 29, 1999

John E. Bourgoin – Mips Technologies Inc (mips)

JOHN E. BOURGOIN is Chairman and CEO of MIPS Technologies, Inc. Mr. Bourgoin brings 28 years of semiconductor experience to his role, drawing from past roles in business management and microprocessor development at MIPS Technologies and AMD, and earlier, in engineering management at Motorola Semiconductor Products Division in Phoenix. Previously, he was Senior Vice President of Silicon Graphics, Inc., and President of the MIPS Group, of Silicon graphics, Inc. Prior to that, Mr. Bourgoin was group Vice President of the Computation Products Group at Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. Mr. Bourgoin received a BSEE from the University of Illinois and a M.B.A. from Arizona State University. Profile
TWST: Let's start out by your giving us a brief overview of MIPS

Technologies the company's history, customers, products, services, those

kinds of things?.

Mr. Bourgoin: The MIPS research