Diosdada (Dada) Banatao Salonga is an entrepeneur and engineer working in the high-tech industry and is credited and is credited with developing various chips for IBM and Windows Graphics.
Banatao is known for his rags-to-riches story, his father a rice farmer. After college he joined Philippine Airlines as a trainee piolot and then Boeing as a design engineer in the USwhere he took a Master degree at Standford University. After finishing his degree he worked for various technlogy companies in the development of computer chips.
In 1984 Banatao launched a number of high=tech comapnies, Moston (as a manufacturer of meotherboards), Chips and Technologogies and S3 graphics.
World Renowned Filipinos / Living Legends - Series 1 # , 13 November 2021
# is part of a se-tenant block of 10, miniature sheet
In Commemoration of the 75th Anniversary of the first stamps of the Republic of the Philippines
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