IDENTIFY THE PERSON
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answer added on 25/2/2012
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| Jerry Sanders |
Walter Jeremiah Sanders III (born September 12, 1936) was a co-founder and a long-time CEO of the American semiconductor manufacturer Advanced Micro Devices (AMD).
Jerry Sanders III grew up in the South Side of Chicago, Illinois, raised by his paternal grandparents. He was once attacked and beaten by a street gang,leaving him so covered in blood that a priest was called to administer the last rites, but Jerry recovered. He attended the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign on an academic scholarship from the Pullman railroad car company He graduated with his bachelor’s degree in engineering in 1958.
jerry sander- amd ceo