Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, one of the most influential Filipino engineers in Silicon Valley and a pioneer in microchip and ...
Diosado “Dado” Banatao, a Silicon Valley tech developer, entrepreneur and venture capitalist died on Dec. 25 at the age of 79 ...
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Dado Banatao, 79

One of the greatest Filipino entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley, Diosdado “Dado” Banatao, died in Stanford, California, on Dec. 25, 2025, from a debilitating neurological disease. He was 79.
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Banatao developed the first 10-Mbit ethernet CMOS with silicon coupler data-link control and transceiver chip, the first system logic chipset for IBM’s PC-XT and PC-AT, and one of the first graphical ...
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