Altera CEO John Daane Wins Top Chip Industry Award

By | November 17, 2014

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John Daane was 13 years old when he first worked summers at his father’s company, which tested and repaired printed circuit boards. He never left electronics after that, though he didn’t take his dad’s preferred route. “The advice I got from my father was not to go into semiconductors,” Daane, CEO and president of Altera (ALTR), said with a laugh. Daane’s father didn’t like the cyclical nature of the chip industry or the paltry profits that came Scalper1 News

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