BRINGING TECHNOLOGY TO THE PEOPLE IS TOPIC OF LECTURE AT HARVEY MUDD COLLEGE

Timothy J. O'Donnell '74, president of the investment company Nordam, Inc., will talk about the importance of "taking technology to the market" and linking product to customer. "You can have a terrific product technically," said O'Donnell, "but it won't succeed unless it is the product the customer needs." O'Donnell will draw on his more than 30 years of worldwide experience in the semiconductor and high-technology industry to illustrate his points.

O'Donnell was the president of ARM, Inc. (NASDAQ: ARMHY), from 1991, when he established the U.S.-based operation of the company, until he retired in 2000, when the company had a market capitalization of $10 billion. ARM specializes in the design of low-power, but high-performance microprocessors and related technology, which are then licensed to such manufacturers as Intel, NEC, and Motorola. Nearly all of the digital cellular phones shipped worldwide contain ARM technology; and more ARM RISC chips are manufactured than Intel microprocessors for PCs.

Prior to his current position, O'Donnell was president of the Virtual Socket Interface Alliance (VSIA), an open, international organization that includes more than 100 representatives from all segments of the system-on-chip industry in Asia, Europe, and the United States. O'Donnell graduated with a B.S. degree in physics in 1974 from Harvey Mudd College, and holds an M.S.E.E. from the University of California, Irvine.