Skip Stritter

Dr. Stritter began his career at Bell Labs. From 1976 to 1979, Dr. Stritter worked at Motorola, where he was chief architect of the Motorola 68000, the first 16-bit microprocessor. The Motorola 68000 powered the Apple Macintosh from its launch until its last few years; also served as the foundation for the workstation industry. Apollo, Hewlett-Packard, Silicon Graphics, and Sun Microsystems all launched their initial workstations on the Motorola 68000.