Meet Henry Samueli, the Visionary of Digital Broadband

Editor’s Note: Henry Samueli is the 2025 recipient of the IEEE Medal of Honor. IEEE Spectrum published this profile of Samueli in the September 1999 issue.

With the recent explosion in the popularity of cable and digital subscriber-line modems for high-speed Internet access, the odds are that you will soon have one of these broadband communications devices in your home or office—if you don’t already. If you do, the odds are that the chips inside the modem will have been designed by