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Atiq Raza: Pakistanis have to free themselves of mental straitjacket

Atiq Raza is arguably the best-known Pakistani in California’s Silicon Valley. Born in Lahore on March 1, 1949, he attended St. Anthony’s High School and Aitchison College in Lahore. After getting a bachelor’s degree in electronics from the University of London, he briefly worked at the Haripur R&D Labs of the Pakistan Telecoms Corporation. His social work landed him in trouble with his organization, and one of the questions his boss asked him was: “Are you a Muslim?” Atiq asked his boss a counter-question, “What does it have to do with my job?” He left this job and moved to Lahore. Subsequently, he joined Punjab University. The stifling atmosphere at Punjab University, where Jamaat-i-Islami’s student wing ruled the roost, forced him to move to the U.S. in 1979. After finishing his master’s from Stanford University, where became friends with Vinod Khosla. Atiq worked at Amdhal and VLSI corporations. Atiq then took on the colossal task of taking a handful of engineers at Nexgen, a start-up, and challenging the total dominance of Intel in the microprocessors area. He describes it as a small army taking on the forces of the Roman Empire. He went on to sell Nexgen for $800 million to AMD instead of an offer of 1.2 billion from the memory chip maker Micron. In 1999, he led AMD to successfully produce and market the K-6 processors, breaking Intel’s monopoly of the microprocessor market in the world. Working tirelessly even over weekends to execute the early production problems, Atiq broke Intel’s hold by producing the world’s first 32- bit processors running at 1000 Mhz. Soon after that, Atiq, calling the microprocessor an edge device, saw that the future lay in building chips for the broadband communications, especially the last mile problem. A problem that was being left unsolved by the Regional US Bell companies and causing the economy to slow down. Raza left AMD to start a new venture of his own in 1999. He founded Raza Foundries and Raza Ventures as a special breed of venture capital company that has successfully pioneered a new concept in Silicon Valley by taking a team of engineers and rapidly ramping/bringing their ideas to production and eventual buyout. In this way Raza ventures has established a new milestone in creating intellectual capital and value generation in Silicon Valley. Under his leadership, Raza Foundries built Pacific Broadband communications, a cable modem hardware−the last mile problem solution—and Yuni Networks, a Chinese husband and wife team, which was sold for $300 million to Applied Microcircuits in 2000. Storage area networks is another field that Raza Foundries is developing. Atiq also is guiding Pakistan’ efforts via the OPEN-US California Group to enter the software market. He has served on the board of directors of AMCC, Maple Optical Systems, Nexsi Systems, Pacific Broadband Communications and several other private companies. **************************************************** Shakil Chaudhary is an alumnus of Government College, Lahore. Subsequently, he studied international relations at Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad and media at the London School of Economics. He has worked for several English-language newspapers. He has written a critically acclaimed bilingual book, Handbook of Functional English (Ferozsons), to help those who wish to improve their English skills. Prof. Tariq Rahman, one of the finest linguistic scholars in South Asia, has praised it in these words: “This book is an excellent guide for the South Asian user of the English language. It gives examples of both the British and American varieties of English and provides guidelines to avoid the common errors of most Pakistanis when they write and speak English. It is also a comprehensive guide for pronunciation, vocabulary, editing and all other aspects of English usage. It has been written with great care and attention. I recommend it to students, editors, writers and other users of English in Pakistan.” Shakil has conducted many workshops on communication, writing and critical thinking skills. He is a former president of the Progressive Writers Association, Islamabad (2021-2022). If you want to see his most popular videos, here are the links to them.    • Why didn't Jinnah implement Islam in Pakis...      • Prof. Hoodbhoy: Pakistan is not a normal c...      • Shahid Siddiqui: The partition ruined Indi...      • Prof. Ishtiaq Ahmed: Muslims Started the C...   You are welcome to follow him on Facebook and Twitter.   / shakil.chaudary     / shakchaudhary