Two important women in electronic engineering I recently learned about...
Mary Jo Doherty: designed the Nintendo 64's Reality Signal Processor (which is the vector-crunching half of the console's graphics & sound coprocessor), and then was leading the SPARC processor teams at Sun and Oracle.
Debbie Marr: designed the Hyper-Threading technology, contributed to many CPUs from the 386SL to the Ice Lake, today she's a chief architect at Intel.
#WomenInTech #WomenInSTEM #Tech #Technology
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