David Lewis Needle (December 17, 1947 – February 20, 2016) was an American computer engineer.

He was a key engineer and co-chief architect in the creation of the Amiga 1000 computer with Jay Miner, Dave Morse, and RJ Mical.

He was one of the main designers and developers of the custom chips of the Amiga computer.

Later he co-invented the Atari Lynx[1] and the 3DO Interactive Multiplayer with Morse and Mical.

But it's only fair to put forward the argument that this is down to the marketing of the machines rather than the quality of the product.