MANILA, Philippines – Inventor of the first system logic chip, Diosdado “Dado” Banatao and considered to be the Filipino Bill Gates had said that its time to tap the Filipino’s in order to promote technology.
The said chip is expected to be the remedy for creating and building personal computers in a lower cost.
Banatao who came from Silicon Valley said in an interview at the ANC (ABS-CBN News Channel) that Filipino engineers and technology experts should be tapped in order to make use of their full potential.
“If we continue the way we do things, time would be forever. We have to change how we do things…how we put knowledge into the brains of talented students,” he said. “We should attack [the hang-ups]…that ‘it’s hard to do, we don’t know how to compete, etc,” thus Banatao said.
Filipinos are not only hardworking but they are intellectual people that if only given with big opportunities and supported very well, they can do better especially in the field of telecommunications, energy and even in transportations.
However, it is sad to note that when it comes to investments for technology related things, investors are afraid to take the risks in putting the tasks to Filipinos.
Banatao continued that it’s better to start getting the potential and capacity of the Filipinos since we shared the same culture before investing to technologies cl(–foul word(s) removed–)ified and developed by foreign experts.
Focus is the word that he wanted to impart to his fellows. Focus on the local market and focus on the potential of the Filipinos for they are worth the trust to take the challenge.
Banatao came from a typical Filipino family, his father was a rice farmer and his mother was a housekeeper. However, he strived hard making him discovered the way of putting Ethernet controller on a chip. This discovery was identified to be the starting point of more technology related development in entrepreneurship.