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AMD Co-founder Turney Dies Friday, October 17, 2008 - Ehud Rattner Home >> Headlines >> Computer Technology   
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Ed Turney, who co-founded Advanced Micro Devices with seven others in 1969, died Wednesday at age 79, of brain cancer, his family said in a statement. Born in Brooklyn in 1929, Turney served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. He got his start in the chip industry as a salesman for Fairchild Semiconductor in 1963, before helping to start Advanced Micro Devices in May 1969. (source: pcworld.com)
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