# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/gene-amdahl
# Generated: 2026-08-13T10:13:38.599Z

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description: "Gene Myron Amdahl was an American computer architect and high-tech entrepreneur, chiefly known for his work on mainframe computers at IBM and later his own companies, especially Amdahl Corporation. He formulated Amdahl's law, which states a fundamental limitation of parallel computing."
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birthDate: "1922-11-16"
deathDate: "2015-11-10"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump