George Perlegos (born 1950) is a Greek-American computer scientist and engineer, best known for pioneering the use of EEPROM and founding Atmel.
He finished high school in Lodi, California, and graduated from San Jose State University in 1972 with a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering.
[1] He later completed a Master of Science in Electrical Engineering at Stanford University in 1975, and from 1975–1978 attended courses there in pursuit of a PhD.
In 1972, his first job after San Jose State was at American Micro Systems Inc (AMI),[1] then a leading supplier of application specific integrated circuits (ASICs).
His first assignment there was to design a single-chip calculator using MOS (Metal Oxide Semiconductor) integrated circuits technology.