Gene Amdahl

Born

November 16, 1922

Died

November 10, 2015 (aged 92)

Known as

physicist, engineer, computer scientist, entrepreneur, businessperson

Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing.

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