Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 23, 1946) is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT, and the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers. A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics. His father, Salvador Banatao, was a rice farmer. His mother, Rosita Banatao, was a housekeeper.
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Diosdado P. Banatao (born May 23, 1946) is a Filipino entrepreneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry, credited with having developed the first 10-Mbit Ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chip set for IBM's PC-XT and the PC-AT, and the local bus concept and the first Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers. A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mos •
ENGR DIOSDADO "DADO" P BANATAO DOCTOR OF SCIENCE HONORIS CAUSA COMMENCEMENT SPEAKER Xavier University - Ateneo de Cagayan 28 March 2019
“My success is a direct result of my beginnings. It is the same will and determination that every Filipino possesses.”
Known by many as the “Bill Gates of the Philippines,” Diosdado “Dado” P Banatao Jr is an engineer, inventor, entrepreneur, aviator, and philanthropist from Iguig, Cagayan Valley. He is the founder of the Philippine Development Foundation, Dado Banatao Educational Foundation, and Banatao Filipino-American Fund as well as the founder and managing partner of the highly successful Silicon Valley-based firm Tallwood Venture Capital. In his heyday, he created the PC chipset and the Windows Graphics accelerator chip, which can be found in every personal computer today.
Dado envisions the eradication of poverty in the Philippines through education, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Similar to the modern airplane whose flight path must navigate the curve of the Earth, international laws and conflicts, and oth
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Dado Banatao was born into a poor family in the Philippines. His father was a farmer and his mother a housekeeper. He excelled in school and was able to attend Mapua Institute of Technology, from which he received a BS in electrical engineering. After not finding an interesting engineering position, he decided to enter commercial airline pilot training. Part way through that training, he received an offer from Boeing to come to Seattle as an engineer working on the 747 program.
While working at Boeing, Dado was given the opportunity to take a paid leave and attend the University of Washington. He ended up transferring to Stanford and moving to Silicon Valley in 1971. Upon graduating with a PhD, he went to National Semiconductor. Three years later he went to Commodore, and then onto Intersil, where he was the microprocessor design manager. From there it was on to Synertek and then SEEQ. While at SEEQ, he formulated ideas for his own startup, Mostron, to develop a PC chipset. Mostron ran out of money, but the chipset became the heart of his next st