 So as Sergio said, we're live from a vaccinated room in Santa Clara and again I want to thank Federico for being with us. We were talking before about this being the 50th anniversary of microprocessor and you being the pioneer of that. I was wondering if you could take us through from your hometown of the Chesa and your studies in Padua. How you ended up the coming to SGS Fairchild, right? So I was born in 1941, wartime. After a year and a half. My father decided to move to a small to a village. Isola Vicentina because the Allied forces were coming through Sicily and they were soon to be in the north. So I spent my first six years after that after, you know, so from from one and a half to seven and a half. In a rural village where basically in many homes there were not even electricity. You know, farmers were still using plows with, you know, pulled by by hawks. I mean just unbelievable, you know, unbelievable when you think about it with the eyes of today. But so anyway, so I I experience. How people live 200 years ago and my first language was the Venetian dialect, so which I still speak very well. And also with English, yeah, but not next was Italian. But in fact, the first the first day of school. I understood half of what the teacher was talking because everybody speak dialect in the village. So, you know, Italian was a new language for me. So I have to learn that one first. Anyway, so I grew, you know, then we moved back to Vicenza where I was born, where my father was a professor of philosophy and history at the classical and also University of Padua scholar. My father wrote about 40 books, translated the Enneads of Plutus and wrote about many philosophers, especially idealist philosophers like Schopenhauer, Meisterrecker, so on. So I grew up in a in a home that was quite culture. My mother was elementary school teacher. But I didn't care about that stuff. I really my first love was model planes and I decided to I saw one when I was 11 and that's it was love at first sight. So I had to build myself one and then two and then three. And so I still build them and fly them. And but I had no money. So I had to figure out how to design them and make them and I bought a book, first book I bought with my money. And and I was self taught essentially, except for the book. And that was a fundamental experience because he essentially gave me a 12 an experience of how you actually build a product because the product you first imagine it, then you have to draw it, figure out a plan, you make a plan, then you buy the material, then you construct it, then you assemble it, and then you fly it from A to Z at 12. In fact, I never had any trouble designing anything because that experience gave me the entire 360 view of how you build products. You have to manage every aspect of that. You have to master it. But it all comes from the mind. It all comes from that moment of imagination where you now then it becomes the first transfer from consciousness into drawing, which is some memory on paper. And then from there it becomes physical. So that process is the process of invention. I went to a technical high school to the chagrin of my father, who of course wanted me to study classical IC, but I couldn't care less about Latin. So and even less about Greek in those days. And so I graduated the best of the Institute by long shot. But the point is that right after I went to work for Olivetti, when Olivetti was a major force in office systems and computers, they had announced in 1959, they announced their first transistorized computer. At the same time as IBM had the first transistorized computer. So they were fairly advanced for those days compared to the US. In a work in Borgo Lombardo, I started in 1960 toward the end of 1960, and I spent the entire 1961. And I was lucky enough to be given a project that eventually became my project to design and build a small experimental computer about the size of, say, the 2004 and all the memories around it and so on. So about that much. And I did that. I did about 60% of the design and build the entire thing. I had four technicians working for me, all older than me. So instead of a plane, it became a mini computer. It became basically it was the equivalent of a much faster calculator, programmable calculator really. But it was a general purpose computer. But the intention was to have a fast calculating machine and to see how that would work. So anyway, after that project, I decided that it was time for me to go back and study physics. And you were 19 or 20? So 1961. And in the end of 1961, I left. I just turned 20 in December. So I decided to go back to go to university, University of Padua. And I wanted to study physics because I study vacuum tubes at the Technical High School. Transistors were fairly new in 1960. And these tools are all this 5, 5, or 10 years late in terms of what they teach with respect to what is the forefront of technology. And of course, transistors in those days were still very slow compared to vacuum tubes. Germanium transistors, they had a carol frequency of about megahertz. That or a few megahertz. So it took silicon to really go the next leg. And so I decided, though, that that was the future. It was very clear to me that was the future. So I wanted to understand quantum physics, understand how the transistors really work, not just using it, but how does it work? And so I did physics instead of engineering, which would have been the more natural thing for me to do. And I never regretted having done that because that was really gave me some solid foundation of mathematics and physics that I could do anything after that of technical nature. So after graduation, I went to work for a small company for less than a year. And then I ended up in 1967 at SGS Churchill. So it was May of 1967 when I started. And with the earlier company called Charest, they sent me in Silicon Valley in the summer of 66 to learn MOS transistors because this company had the rap. They were a rap of general microelectronics. It was the first MOS company in the world, starting I think in 65 or early 66. And they had developed a 100-bit shift register. Can you imagine? They couldn't build it, but they were. Yeah, this was the vision. Yeah, that was. And so I spent a week here with a course on MOS and the products of this company. And then I went back. But then GME was purchased by Philco 4 that they disappear. And so my job there disappeared. So I went to SGS. And SGS Churchill had just started an R&D facility. In those days, SGS was the European licensee of bipolar transistors and integrated circuits from Fertial. Fertial had about 30% ownership of the company. But they were dependent on products from Fertial. And so they decided in early 67 or early 66 to start an R&D facility. I joined them. In my first job, since I knew everything about MOS, right course, was to develop their first MOS process technology, which I did. I did in about four months. And then I designed two integrated circuits before the end of the year. One was a 16-bit static shift register, which takes a lot more transistors than a dynamic one. And then it's sort of a gate array with metal that you could decide your own. Of course, there were only a few gates. I don't know. They were probably the equivalent of 20 gates or something. Maybe 40 gates. But that kind of thing. And that was the that takes us to the end of 67. And then I was sent here in an exchange of engineers in early February of 68. Here in Silicon Valley. Here in Silicon Valley to work in the R&D facility of Fertial. And so that I told you my first life. Yeah, exactly. Life in Italy. And now we are at the beginning of my second life.