Gil Amelio, then CEO, had divided National Semiconductor products into two divisions: Standard Products group which comprises low-margin, logic and memory chips — commodity products which were more susceptible to cyclical demands and through which National Semiconductor had matured ; and Communications & Computing group which comprises high-margin, value-added analogue and mixed-signal chips.

Amelio found that, just prior to his taking helm, despite having spent US $ 1 billion over the last five years on research and development, National Semiconductor had a disappointing record in new products.

Amelio disposed off the non-core products and assets in which National Semiconductor had no market motivation or expertise and turned the company towards its core expertise-analogue semiconductors.

Amelio cited several problems at Apple including a shortage of cash and liquidity, low-quality products, lack of a viable operating system strategy, undisciplined corporate culture, and fragmentation in trying to do too much and in too many directions.

Less than two months later, on 19 July, Falcone's co-worker and friend, magistrate Paolo Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in via D ' Amelio, Palermo, in front of his mother's house.

On July 19, 1992, Borsellino was killed by a car bomb in Via D ' Amelio, near his mother's house in Palermo, less than two months after the death of his good friend Falcone.

Salvatore Riina was arrested in January 1993 and subsequently sentenced to life imprisonment for ordering dozens of murders, including the two high-profile bombings ( the Capaci massacre and Via D ' Amelio massacre ) that killed prosecutors Giovanni Falcone and Paolo Borsellino.

For the last two years of his life, Amelio was employed at Duanesburg High School in Delanson, New York as a full-time teacher and Modified Baseball Coach.

Fairchild carried with it what was mostly the Standard Products group previously segregated by Amelio.

Fairchild carried with it what was mostly the Standard Products group previously segregated by Amelio.

Troubles at Apple later prompted the board to invite Amelio to take on the position of CEO, which he accepted in February 1996.

Investigations held by police telecommunication expert Gioacchino Genchi attested the presence of an undercover SISDE seat in the Castello Utveggio, a liberty-style castle on the Monte Pellegrino, a mountain overlooking Palermo and Via D ' Amelio, the street in which Borsellino was killed.

The movie director Gianni Amelio has told their story in a TV-movie which became a film, I ragazzi di via Panisperna ( 1989 ).

In 1987 Amelio released I ragazzi di via Panisperna, about the lives of 1930 Italian physicists such as Enrico Fermi and Edoardo Amaldi, which won the award for best screenplay at the Bari Film Festival.

* In 1997, Apple Inc. ( at the time known as Apple Computer inc .) and Steve Jobs ousted Gil Amelio in a boardroom coup, after which Jobs became interim CEO of Apple Computer, moving on to become full-time CEO shortly after.

* Anno uno in memory of the victims of the via D ' Amelio massacre ( 1993 )

Amelio complained that Copland was " just a collection of separate pieces, each being worked on by a different team ... that were expected to magically come together somehow.

Apple CEO Gil Amelio started negotiations to buy Be Inc., but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée wanted $ 200 million ; Apple was unwilling to offer any more than $ 125 million.

To replace Copland and fulfill the need for a next generation operating system Amelio started negotiations to buy BeOS from Be Inc. but negotiations stalled when Be CEO Jean-Louis Gassée demanded $ 275 million ; Apple was unwilling to offer more than $ 200 million.

" Janet Maslin, writing for The New York Times, finds that " The film's synthesis of fact and fiction is gracefully achieved ," and expressed hope that after the screening of Lamerica at the 1995 New York Film Festival, Amelio would " emerge ... much more widely known.

National Semiconductor under Amelio emphasized on reduction of cost of sales, improving capacity utilization, scrap reduction and cycle-time reduction.

In 1994, National Semiconductor under Amelio posted record net revenues of US $ 2. 29 billion.

National Semiconductor under Amelio chose to build a brand new eight inch ( 200 mm ) wafer fabrication plant in South Portland, Maine.

In 1995, Amelio was elected to be the chairman of the board of directors of National Semiconductor.

In 1996, Amelio accepted invitation from Apple Computer, a customer of National Semiconductor, to join its board of directors.

National Semiconductor announced the resignation of Amelio as the company's President, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer on February 2, 1996.

However, he found that National Semiconductor under Amelio had insufficient product offerings.

Amelio worked at Bell Labs, Fairchild Semiconductor, and the semiconductor division of Rockwell International but is best remembered as a former CEO of National Semiconductor and Apple.

Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from May 27, 1991, to February 2, 1996.

During his tenure at National Semiconductor, Amelio cut costs and returned the company to profitability.

Amelio was CEO of National Semiconductor from 1991 to 1995.

After his resignation from National Semiconductor Amelio became Apple CEO on February 2, 1996, succeeding Michael Spindler.

In January 1996, Spindler was asked to resign as CEO, replaced by former CEO of National Semiconductor Gil Amelio.

At present, the CNE officials are: Tibisay Lucena ( CNE President, President of the National Electoral Commission ), Sandra Oblitas Ruzza ( Vice President, President of the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission ), Vicente José Gregorio Díaz Silva ( President of the Political Participation and Finance Commission ), Socorro Elizabeth Hernández Hernández ( Member of the National Electoral Commission ) and Tania D ' Amelio Cardiet ( Member of the Civil and Electoral Registry Commission ).

In 1996, Apple's newest CEO, Gil Amelio, hired Ellen Hancock away from National Semiconductor and put her in charge of engineering in an effort to try to get development back on track.

" Hoping to salvage the situation, Amelio hired Ellen Hancock away from National Semiconductor to take over engineering and get Copland development back on track.

Amelio is a former director and chairman of the Semiconductor Industry Association.

Fairchild's effort, led by ex-Bell researcher Gil Amelio, was the first with commercial devices, and by 1974 had a linear 500-element device and a 2-D 100 x 100 pixel device.

Amelio was then president of Rockwell International's semiconductor division and had a Ph. D. in physics from Georgia Institute of Technology.

Amelio had also been formerly employed at Fairchild.

The Business section of The New York Times January 11, 1991 reflected the over-capacity generated by Sporck that had to be inherited by Amelio.