Jensen’s decision to ease his way out of LSI Logic turned out to pay immediate dividends during Nvidia’s fund-raising process. When he submitted his resignation, his manager had immediately taken him to LSI’s CEO, Wilfred Corrigan, a British engineer who pioneered several semiconductor manufacturing processes and design principles that are still in use today. Jensen’s manager wanted “Wilf,” as he was known throughout the company, to talk the young engineer out of leaving LSI altogether. But when Corrigan heard about Jensen’s vision for a new generation of graphics chips, he asked him a
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