T. J. Rodgers

{{short description|American scientist and entrepreneur (born 1948)}} {{use mdy dates|date=April 2022}} {{Infobox person | image = T.J. Rodgers (3x4 cropped).jpg | image_size = | name = T. J. Rodgers | caption = 2007 portrait | birth_name = Thurman John Rodgers | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1948|3|15}} | birth_place = Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.<ref name="Mercury">{{cite news |url=http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/08/20/mercury-news-interview-t-j-rodgers-ceo-and-president-of-cypress-semiconductor/ |title=T.J. Rodgers, CEO and president of Cypress Semiconductor |last=Johnson |first=Steve |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=August 20, 2010 |access-date=June 13, 2017|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170505052633/http://www.mercurynews.com/2010/08/20/mercury-news-interview-t-j-rodgers-ceo-and-president-of-cypress-semiconductor/|archive-date=May 5, 2017|url-status=live|url-access=limited}}</ref> | death_date = | death_place = | death_cause = | resting_place = | education = | alma_mater = Dartmouth College, 1970 B.A. Stanford University, 1973 M.A. 1975 Ph.D. | occupation = Scientist and entrepreneur | spouse = Valeta Massey<ref name="Mercury" /> | parents = | children = | relatives = | website = }} '''Thurman John Rodgers''' (born March 15, 1948)<ref name="Mercury" /> is an American billionaire scientist and entrepreneur. He is the founder of Cypress Semiconductor and holds patents ranging from semiconductors to energy to winemaking. Rodgers is known for his public relations acumen, brash personality, and strong advocacy of ''laissez-faire'' capitalism. He stepped down as Cypress CEO in April 2016 and Director in August 2016 after serving for 34 years.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.cypress.com/news/cypress-ceo-step-down|title=Cypress CEO to Step Down|website=www.cypress.com|access-date=July 27, 2017}}</ref>

==Early life== Thurman John Rodgers was born on March 15, 1948, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He goes back to nearby Green Bay, Wisconsin several times a year to attend Green Bay Packers football games.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.sfgate.com/living/article/A-DAY-IN-THE-LIFE-OF-T-J-Rodgers-2734685.php|title = A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ... / T.J. Rodgers|date = January 30, 2005}}</ref> His father was a car salesman and worked for General Motors and his mother was a school teacher, with a master's degree in radio electronics. He was a Sloan scholar at Dartmouth College and played on the Dartmouth Big Green football team.<ref name="Bloomberg">{{Cite news|url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/1991-12-08/the-bad-boy-of-silicon-valley|title = The Bad Boy of Silicon Valley|newspaper = Bloomberg.com|date = December 9, 1991}}</ref> In 1970 he received his bachelor's degree, graduating as ''salutatorian'' with majors in chemistry and physics.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://chemistry.dartmouth.edu/undergraduate/undergraduate-awards/tj-rodgers-70-book-prize |title=The T.J. Rodgers '70 Book Prize |date=November 14, 2013 |publisher=Dartmouth Department of Chemistry |access-date=June 10, 2017}}</ref> He received his master's degree (1973) and Ph.D. (1975) in electrical engineering from Stanford University. While pursuing his Ph.D. degree, Rodgers invented the VMOS process technology, which he later licensed to American Microsystems, Inc. He founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982. He was awarded an honorary doctorate from the Universidad Francisco Marroquín in Guatemala City.

==Career== {{Libertarianism US|activists}} After finishing a doctorate at Stanford, he turned down a job offer from Intel, saying that CEO Andrew S. Grove was unlikely to give him the freedom to pursue his own projects.<ref name="Bloomberg"/> Instead Rodgers accepted a job at American Microsystems, Inc. (AMI), where he continued development of VMOS, but this project was a failure.

===Cypress Semiconductor=== Rodgers founded Cypress Semiconductor in 1982 and served as founding CEO.<ref name="Business">{{cite web |url=http://fortune.com/2016/04/28/cypress-semiconductor-ceo-broadcom/ |title=Cypress Semiconductor Losing Its CEO While Gaining a New Business From Broadcom |last=Darrow |first=Barb |publisher=Fortune |date=April 28, 2016 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> Cypress is a semiconductor design and manufacturing company, producing PSoCs, microcontroller, IoT, wireless and USB, PMICs, memory and sensor chips.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.cypress.com/ |title=Products |publisher=Cypress |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> As CEO, Rodgers was responsible for more than 30 acquisitions,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1328397&page_number=2 |title=T.J. Rodgers on Mergers, IoT, More |last=Merritt |first=Rick |magazine=EE Times |date=December 3, 2015 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> including SunPower and the IoT portfolio of Broadcom Corporation.<ref name="Business" /> Cypress also benefited from its business with Apple Inc., as its PSoC was behind the iPod click wheel.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-12-03/hot-growth-the-chips-have-itbusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |title=Hot Growth: The Chips Have It |last=Hesseldahl |first=Arik |newspaper=Bloomberg.com |publisher=Bloomberg |date=December 3, 2007 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref> He stepped down as CEO in April 2016.<ref name="Business" /> In 2015, Cypress had more than 6,000 employees and revenues of US$1.6 billion. The company had about 7,000 issued patents and about 1,200 additional patent applications on record.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/791915/000156459016013820/cy-10k_20160103.htm |title=Annual Report Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities exchange act of 1934 |publisher=U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission |date=January 3, 2016 |access-date=June 13, 2017}}</ref>

====Proxy fight==== In 2017 Rodgers conducted a successful proxy fight against Cypress. He raised concerns pertaining to director compensation,<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/06/13/cypress-semiconductor-proxy-fight-tj-rodgers.html |title=Cypress Semiconductor replaces executive chairman amid proxy brawl with its founder |newspaper=Silicon Valley Business Journal |date=June 13, 2017 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> state-sponsored foreign competition<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.marketwatch.com/story/burning-cypress-ousted-ceo-wages-bruising-battle-with-company-he-built-2017-06-16 |title=Burning Cypress: Ousted CEO wages bruising battle with company he built |last=Poletti |first=Therese |publisher=Market Watch |date=June 19, 2017 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> as well as inherent conflicts of interest.<ref name="Cypress Semi">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cypress-semicond-rodgers-idUSKBN19B2S3 |title=Cypress Semi shareholders vote in dissident directors |last=Flaherty |first=Michael |work=Reuters |date=June 20, 2017 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> After filing a lawsuit against the company in April 2017, Rodgers sought to remove executive chairman Ray Bingham<ref name="reuters/USKBN19703Q">{{cite news |last1=Baker |first1=Liana B. |last2=Flaherty |first2=Michael |title=Former Oracle board member dogged by links to China-backed chip deal |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/business/former-oracle-board-member-dogged-by-links-to-china-backed-chip-deal-idUSKBN19703Q/ |access-date=29 July 2024 |date=June 16, 2017}}</ref><ref name="bizjournals/2017/12/18/security">{{cite news |title=China-backed Palo Alto PE investor says security isn't the reason for stalled U.S. deals |url=https://www.bizjournals.com/sanjose/news/2017/12/18/china-backed-palo-alto-pe-investor-says-security.html |access-date=29 July 2024 |work=bizjournals.com}}</ref> and Éric Benhamou from the Cypress board and nominated Dan McCranie and Camillo Martino as directors.<ref name="Semiconductor">{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-cypress-semicond-rodgers-idUSKBN19Q30Y |title=Cypress Semiconductor reaches settlement with former CEO Rodgers |work=Reuters |date=July 5, 2017 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> Rodgers argued that Bingham's role as a co-founder of Canyon Bridge,<ref name="China">{{cite web |url=https://www.electronicsweekly.com/news/business/china-eyeing-imagination-2017-08/ |title=China eyeing up Imagination |last=Manners |first=David |publisher=Electronics Weekly |date=August 2, 2017 |access-date=September 4, 2017}}</ref> a private equity fund supported by the Government of China,<ref name="Cypress Semi" /> constituted a clear conflict of interest as acquisition targets for both companies overlapped.<ref name="China" /> Bingham was forced to resign from the Cypress board in early June 2017 and both of Rodgers' nominees won the subsequent 2017 shareholder election against Benhamou.<ref name="Semiconductor" />

===SunPower=== Rodgers early recognized the value<ref name="business">{{cite web |url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2007-12-03/t-dot-j-dot-rodgers-startup-strategybusinessweek-business-news-stock-market-and-financial-advice |title=T.J. Rodgers' Startup Strategy |last=Holahan |first=Catherine |publisher=Bloomberg |date=December 3, 2007 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> of high efficiency solar cells produced by SunPower. As SunPower faced financial problems in 2001, Rodgers<ref name="economics">{{cite web |url=http://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/t.j.-rogers-beyond-climate-change-growth-through-pure-economics |title=T.J. Rodgers: Just Say No to Subsidies and Global Warming |last=Wesoff |first=Eric |publisher=Greentech Media |date=February 9, 2011 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> tried to convince the Cypress board<ref name="business" /> to buy the solar cell producer.<ref name="valley">{{cite magazine |url=https://www.forbes.com/2008/03/19/innovation-rodgers-valley-tech-innovation08-cx_wt_0319innovation.html |title=Silicon Valley Can't Be Beat |last=Tanaka |first=Wendy |magazine=Forbes |date=March 19, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> Rodgers and SunPower CEO Richard Swanson had met in the 70s at Stanford University. But as the Cypress board of directors was not interested in saving the struggling company Rodgers wrote a check himself for $750,000.<ref name="economics" /> About a year later Rodgers had convinced the board to invest $9 million in SunPower and a few months later Cypress bought a majority stake in SunPower.<ref name="business" /> In 2005 SunPower went public<ref name="valley" /> and reached a market capitalization of $10.4 billion in 2007.<ref name="business" /> From May 2002 to May 2011, Rodgers served as chairman of SunPower.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-sunpower-idUSTRE6AG0OU20101117 |title=SunPower chairman wants to quit and return to roots |last=McBride |first=Sarah |work=Reuters |date=November 16, 2010 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref>

In 2024 SunPower declared bankruptcy and TJ Rodger's company Complete Solar entered into a stalking horse bid on particular assets of the SunPower company including the company Name and stock ticker. In 2025 the company has branded back to SunPower where TJ serves as chairman of the board and CEO.

===Enphase Energy=== In January 2017, Rodgers invested US$5 million in Enphase Energy,<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.northbaybusinessjournal.com/events/6647678-181/enphase-energy-solar-profitability?artslide=0 |title=Petaluma's Enphase Energy transforms to survive scorching solar competition |last=Dunn |first=James |publisher=Northbay Business Journal |date=February 13, 2017 |access-date=June 18, 2017}}</ref> a renewable energy firm specialized in energy management and the production of solar micro-inverters, which transform solar energy to alternating current for the electrical grid.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1331162 |title=T.J. Rodgers Backs Renewable Energy Firm |last=McGrath |first=Dylan |magazine=EE Times |date=January 12, 2017 |access-date=June 18, 2017}}</ref> In addition to his investment, Rodgers joined Enphase's board of directors.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://renewablesnow.com/news/enphase-gets-investment-from-2-silicon-valley-entrepreneurs-553767/ |title=Enphase gets investment from 2 Silicon Valley entrepreneurs |publisher=Renewables Now |date=January 11, 2017 |access-date=June 18, 2017}}</ref>

===Board memberships=== * Bloom Energy, a fuel cell producer * Enovix, producer of silicon lithium-ion batteries * Enphase Energy, energy technology company * Complete Solaria, a vertically integrated residential solar company * FarmX, precision agriculture company * FTC Solar, a renewable energy company * Bespoken Spirits Inc., a beverage technology company

Rodgers also served as director of the Semiconductor Industry Association.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.thestreet.com/story/14039536/2/tj-rodgers-provides-investor-presentation-for-cypress-stockholders-titled-do-whats-right-for-cypress.html |title=T.J. Rodgers Provides Investor Presentation For Cypress Stockholders |publisher=TheStreet |date=March 13, 2017 |access-date=July 24, 2017 }}{{Dead link|date=June 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=no }}</ref>

==Trustee of Dartmouth College== After successfully launching a petition drive to get his name on the ballot, Rodgers won the alumni trustee election of Dartmouth College in 2004,<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.weeklystandard.com/the-dartmouth-insurgency/article/6706 |title=The Dartmouth Insurgency |last=Currie |first=Duncan |magazine=The Weekly Standard |date=April 25, 2005 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}{{dead link|date=September 2024|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> becoming the first successful petition candidate since 1980.<ref name="Battle">{{cite web |url=http://www.dartblog.com/data/media/Silverglate_Malchow_Fiduciary_Duty_9-09.pdf |title=Dartmouth College, the Battle Over Parity & the Legal Notion of Fiduciary Duty |last1=Smeallie |first1=Kyle |last2=Romero |first2=Maria |publisher=Dartmouth's Daily Blog |access-date=May 30, 2017 |url-status=bot: unknown |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120127093054/http://www.dartblog.com/data/media/Silverglate_Malchow_Fiduciary_Duty_9-09.pdf |archivedate=January 27, 2012 }}</ref> He won with a comfortable margin.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dartblog.com/data/2008/05/007831.php |title=Dartmouth Against Democracy |last=Malchow |first=Joe |publisher=Dartmouth's Daily Blog |date=May 27, 2008 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> As trustee, Rodgers’ major concerns were removing the College's speech code,<ref name="Battle" /> increasing the budget for teacher salaries and strengthening Dartmouth's focus on undergraduate education.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/21/education/21dartmouth.html |title=Dartmouth Alumni Battles Become a Spectator Sport |last=Schemo |first=Diana Jean |newspaper=The New York Times |date=June 21, 2006 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> Following the campaign of Rodgers, three additional independent trustees were elected in 2005 and 2007.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/08/us/08dartmouth.html |title=Battle Over Board Structure at Dartmouth Raises Passions of Alumni |last=Lewin |first=Tamar |newspaper=The New York Times |date=September 8, 2007 |access-date=May 30, 2017}}</ref> Rodgers was reelected as trustee in 2009.<ref name="Battle" />

==Clos de la Tech== Rodgers began winemaking in 1996 on a one-acre vineyard surrounding his house in Woodside. Later he bought two additional vineyards and, along with his wife Valeta, Rodgers established the winery Clos de la Tech in the Santa Cruz Mountains of Silicon Valley. Clos de la Tech uses old French winemaking techniques of Domaine de la Romanée-Conti<ref name="Wine">{{cite web |url=http://www.santacruzsentinel.com/lifestyle/20130924/stacey-vreeken-wine-press-clos-de-la-tech-pursues-pinot-perfection-sparing-no-expense |title=Stacey Vreeken, Wine Press: Clos de la Tech pursues pinot perfection, sparing no expense |last=Vreeken |first=Stacey |publisher=Santa Cruz Sentinel Food |date=September 24, 2013 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> to make five Pinot Noir wines. This includes stomping the grapes with feet and siphoning the wine by hand.<ref name="Technologies">{{cite web |url=http://ediblesiliconvalley.ediblecommunities.com/drink/clos-de-la-tech-wine-combining-ancient-principles-modern-technologies |title=Clos de la Tech Wine: Combining Ancient Principles with Modern Technologies |last=Narasin |first=Ben |publisher=Edible Silicon Valley |date=July 13, 2015 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> Also, no mechanized pumps are used.<ref>{{cite news |url=http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/11/09/chip-icon-tj-rodgers-turns-his-tech-to-winemaking/ |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111111021019/http://blogs.reuters.com/mediafile/2011/11/09/chip-icon-tj-rodgers-turns-his-tech-to-winemaking/ |url-status=dead |archive-date=November 11, 2011 |title=Chip icon TJ Rodgers turns his tech to winemaking |last=Randewich |first=Noel |work=Reuters |date=November 9, 2011 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> Clos de la Tech combines these old techniques with high tech monitoring<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.sfgate.com/living/article/A-DAY-IN-THE-LIFE-OF-T-J-Rodgers-2734685.php#photo-2182124 |title=A DAY IN THE LIFE OF ... / T.J. Rodgers |last=Zinko |first=Carolyne |publisher=SFGate |date=January 30, 2005 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> and measures to optimize the conditions for the crops and to handle grapes and wine as gently as possible.<ref name="Technologies" /> Clos de la Tech's Pinot Noirs have been rated up to 96 points by Wine Enthusiast Magazine.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.winemag.com/?s=Clos%20de%20la%20Tech |title=Clos de la Tech |last= |first= |publisher=Wine Enthusiast Magazine |date= |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref> As winemaker, Rodgers invented a patented wine press and computer monitored fermenters.<ref name="Wine" /> He also designed and built the first wireless wine fermentation network, comprising 152 fermenters, and donated the system worth US$3.5 million to the UC Davis winery.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/tj-rodgers-completes-worlds-first-wireless-wine-fermentation-network-uc-davis-winery/ |title=T.J. Rodgers completes world's first wireless wine fermentation network for UC Davis winery |last=Bailey |first=Pat |publisher=University of California Davis |date=January 8, 2013 |access-date=June 1, 2017}}</ref>

==Comments on diversity== In 1996, Rodgers received a form letter from Sister Doris Gormley, the Director of Corporate Social Responsibility for The Sisters of St. Francis of Philadelphia, encouraging him to hire women and minorities on the Cypress board. He replied with a long letter defending his hiring practices and philosophy. This exchange between Rodgers and Gormley drew considerable media attention.<ref>{{cite magazine | title = Profits vs. PC – A Silicon Valley CEO says no to boardroom quotas — on moral grounds | last = Rodgers | first = T. J. | magazine = Reason | date = 1996-05-23 | quote = … Thank you for your letter criticizing the lack of racial and gender diversity of Cypress's Board of Directors. I received the same letter from you last year. I will reiterate the management arguments opposing your position. Then I will provide the philosophical basis behind our rejection of the operating principles espoused in your letter, which we believe to be not only unsound, but even immoral, by a definition of that term I will present. }}</ref><ref>http://www.cypress.com/documentation/ceo-articles/cypress-ceo-responds-nuns-urging-politically-correct-board-make></ref> In 1999,<ref name="sfgate/2944358">{{cite news |last1=Evangelista |first1=Benny |title=Workforce Coalition Lashes Out at Rodgers: Cypress CEO had criticized Jesse Jackson's visit |url=https://www.sfgate.com/business/article/Workforce-Coalition-Lashes-Out-at-Rodgers-2944358.php |access-date=28 July 2024 |work=SFGATE |publisher=Hearst Communications |date=March 3, 1999 |quote=It's insulting that Jesse Jackson flies into the Silicon Valley, which I revere as one of the best places on earth and one of the most unprejudiced places on earth, and tells us we're prejudiced, he is ignorant about the situation here in the Silicon Valley.}}</ref> he wrote an editorial in the ''San Jose Mercury News'' denouncing Jesse Jackson's attack<ref name="zdnet/jackson">{{cite news |title=Cypress CEO strikes back at Jackson |url=https://www.zdnet.com/article/cypress-ceo-strikes-back-at-jackson/ |access-date=29 July 2024 |work=ZDNET |date=April 12, 1999 |language=en}}</ref> on Cypress Semiconductor on what Jackson claimed was discriminatory hiring practices.<ref>{{cite news |url= http://www.cypress.com/documentation/ceo-articles/san-jose-mercury-news-valley-should-stand-jacksons-divisive-tactics-march |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20160309090121/http://www.cypress.com/documentation/ceo-articles/san-jose-mercury-news-valley-should-stand-jacksons-divisive-tactics-march |url-status= dead |archive-date= 2016-03-09 |title=Valley Should Stand Up To Jackson's Divisive Tactics |newspaper=San Jose Mercury News |date=March 14, 1999 }}</ref>

==Personal life== Rodgers is an avid jogger and wine enthusiast. He is a supporter of several charities, including Second Harvest of Silicon Valley, and served as a trustee on the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2012.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.dartmouth.edu/~trustees/emeriti/ |title=Trustees Emeriti |publisher=Dartmouth College |accessdate=April 12, 2014|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131030001812/http://www.dartmouth.edu/~trustees/emeriti/ |archivedate=2013-10-30 }}</ref> He is the husband of Valeta Massey.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.mercurynews.com/portal/news/ci_15844839|title = Mercury News interview: T.J. Rodgers, CEO and president of Cypress Semiconductor|date = August 20, 2010}}</ref>

==Awards and recognition== {{div col|colwidth=50em}} '''1986:''' * Entrepreneur of the Year by City of Santa Clara, California<ref name="Board">{{cite web |url=https://www.dartmouth.edu/~trustees/biographies/rodgers.html |title=Board of Trustees |publisher=Dartmouth College |access-date=June 10, 2017}}</ref> '''1988:''' * ENCORE (Entrepreneurial Company of the Year) Award from the Stanford University Business School<ref name="Board" /><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.gsb.stanford.edu/alumni/featured-events/award-events/encore |title=2016 ENCORE Award |publisher=Stanford Graduate School of Business |date=October 10, 2016 |access-date=June 10, 2017}}</ref> '''1996:''' * "CEO of the year" – ''Financial World''<ref name="Board" /> '''1997''' * Outstanding Individual Entrepreneurship Award from the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship '''2000:''' * Award from the Healing Institute for his support of the Carver Scholars Program '''2001:''' * Cited as one of the "100 People Who Changed Our World." by ''Upside''<ref name="Board" /> * Silicon Valley Capitalism Award for "exemplifying the virtues of capitalism and defending capitalism with ethical principles in the media." * Angel Award by the International Angel Investors organization for his venture-capital activities supporting the semiconductor industry * Entrepreneur of the Year Award from the Smith Center for Private Enterprise Studies at California State University, Hayward '''2002:''' * "Top 100 Chief Executives" by ''Chief Executive''<ref name="Board" /> '''2005 :''' * Inducted into the Silicon Valley Engineering Council Hall of Fame. '''2006:''' * Honored with a Fellow Award from the International Engineering Consortium. '''2009:''' * Spirit of Ireland Award {{div col end}}

==Patents== {{div col|colwidth=30em}} '''1975''' ''US3878552'' – Bipolar Integrated Circuit and Method<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=3878552 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US3924265'' – Low capacitance V groove MOS NOR gate and method of manufacture<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=3924265 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''1976''' ''US3975221'' – Low capacitance V groove MOS NOR gate and method of manufacture<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=3975221 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''1980''' ''US4222063'' – VMOS Floating gate memory with breakdown voltage loweringregion<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=4222063 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US4222062'' – VMOS Floating gate memory device<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=4222062 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''1981''' ''CA1115426'' – U-groove mos device<ref>{{cite patent |country=CA |number=1115426 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''1988''' ''US5835401'' – DRAM with hidden refresh<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=5835401 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US4764248'' – Rapid thermal nitridized oxide locos process<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=4764248 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''1999''' ''US5977638'' – Edge metal for interconnect layers<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=5977638 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2000''' ''US6131140'' – Integrated cache memory with system control logic and adaptation of RAM bus to a cache pinout<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6131140 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2001''' ''US6185126'' – Self-initializing RAM-based programmable device<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6185126 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2004''' ''US6835616'' – Method of forming a floating metal structure in an integratedcircuit<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6835616 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US6730545'' – Method of performing back-end manufacturing of an integrated circuit device<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6730545 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US2004076712'' – Fermentation tank wine press <ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=2004076712 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2005''' ''US6903002'' – Low-k dielectric layer with air gaps<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6903002 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US6847218'' – Probe card with an adapter layer for testing integrated circuits<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=6847218 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2006''' ''US7045387'' – Method of performing back-end manufacturing of an integrated circuit<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=7045387 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2007''' ''US7227804'' – Current source architecture for memory device standby current reduction<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=7227804 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2008''' ''US2008315847'' – Programmable floating gate reference<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=2008315847 |status=patent}}</ref> ''US2008102160'' – Wine-making press<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=2008102160 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2009''' ''US7507944'' – Non-planar packaging of image sensor<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=7507944 |status=patent}}</ref>

'''2017''' ''US9624094'' – Hydrogen barriers in a copper interconnect process<ref>{{cite patent |country=US |number=9624094 |status=patent}}</ref> {{div col end}}

==Bibliography== * {{cite book | title = No-Excuses Management: Proven Systems for Starting Fast, Growing Quickly, and Surviving Hard Times | author1 = T. J. Rodgers | author2 = William Taylor | author3 = Rick Foreman | year = 1993 | publisher = Bantam Dell | isbn = 978-0-385-42604-6 | url-access = registration | url = https://archive.org/details/noexcusesmanagem00rodg }}

==See also== * Milton Friedman – Nobel Prize-winning economist, debated Rodgers and Mackey * John Mackey – founder of Whole Foods Market, debated Rodgers and Friedman

==References==

==External links== * {{cite magazine | url = http://www.reason.com/0510/fe.mf.rethinking.shtml | title = Rethinking the Social Responsibility of Business | magazine = Reason | date = October 2005 | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20061024225509/http://www.reason.com/0510/fe.mf.rethinking.shtml | archivedate = 2006-10-24 }} – A debate between John Mackey, Milton Friedman, and T.J. Rodgers * [http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0996rodgers.htm Text of Rodger's letter to Sister Gormley] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080513043357/http://www.enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0996rodgers.htm |date=May 13, 2008 }}. * {{C-SPAN|37826}} * [https://web.archive.org/web/20060211004810/http://www.dartmouth.edu/%7Enews/releases/2004/05/12.html Profile from Dartmouth College upon his election to the Dartmouth College Board of Trustees] * [https://web.archive.org/web/20030502013755/http://www.theadvocates.org/celebrities/tj-rodgers.html T.J. Rodgers – Libertarian] from the Advocates for Self-Government website * {{cite web | url = http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9887435-38.html | title = Cypress' T.J. Rodgers on solar, politics, and capitalism, part 1 | publisher = News.com | archiveurl = https://web.archive.org/web/20080515101739/http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9887435-38.html | archivedate = 2008-05-15 }} * {{cite web | url = http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9887436-38.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703 | archive-url = https://archive.today/20130129165147/http://www.news.com/8301-13578_3-9887436-38.html?part=dht&tag=nl.e703 | url-status = dead | archive-date = January 29, 2013 | title = Cypress' T.J. Rodgers on solar, politics, and capitalism, part 2 | publisher = News.com }} * [http://opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110010549 Mr. Rodgers Goes to Dartmouth A cautionary tale about a businessman who ventured back into the Ivory Tower.] Interview in the ''Wall Street Journal'' 2008-02-15

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