It's a little known fact that the legendary chip designer Bob Widlar, who designed the 709 op amp and the LM10 op amp voltage reference, would, on occasion, turn his hand to designing advertisements with his friend the Silicon Valley PR genius Regis McKenna.
Bob's brother, Jim Widlar, very kindly sent me the result of one of these exercises, and it has to be the best ad the semiconductor industry ever produced.
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