Born in a sleepy hamlet of Amirpur in Uttar Pradesh Prakash
Agarwal co-founded NeoMagic, one of the fastest growing semiconductor companies
in the world.
An expert in mobile computing, Agarwal restructured and
repositioned the company in a bid to exploit new opportunities in digital video
disks, video cameras and other devices. In 1998, Agarwal was awarded the 1998
Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for excellence and
extraordinary success in innovation, financial performance, and personal
commitment to his business and his community. He also co-founded Zeevo and
stayed on its board of directors.
Agarwal joined Cirrus Logic when it was an eight-person outfit and by the
time he left the company employed over 2,000 people. Agarwal was VP of the
company's mobile products division when he decided to explore the physical
possibilities of a project that had existed on the drawing board for a long
period of time: integrating the memory and logic chips and enabling high-quality
multimedia on laptop computers.
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