Proud to say that my friend and grad-school classmate Eric Almgren was a key instigator, as founder of Silicon Image, the company behind HDMI. We got our MBAs at UT Austin in 1990. Super-nice guy, quiet, principled, modest, dry wit, and a masterful businessman. Of course, it would be another 5 or 6 years before I heard of HDMI. And then a few more years til I put it all together with Eric and all. It was quite a reunion when we met up at a CES around 1999.

I promised to do a story on the making of HDMI.

The next big thing from him and the gang is http://www.keyssa.com