But the chips made their way into so many products-- Cisco (nasdaq: CSCO - news - people ) routers, Seagate disk drives, Netgear (nasdaq: NTGR - news - people ) wireless modems--only because of Dai's relentless salesmanship.

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Some 110, 000 people living around the Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear plant were evacuated after the massive March 11, 2011 earthquake and tsunami knocked out the plant's power and cooling systems, causing meltdowns in three reactors and spewing radiation into the surrounding air, soil and water.

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