Ron Nicholson

Ron Nicholson was badge #11 and Director of Hardware Engineering at the original Amiga company on Scott Boulevard. Early on he helped draw up the Lorraine system architecture on the whiteboard. When it came time to make the first silicon, he was responsible for determining how much circuitry would fit on each 48-pin chip. His silicon designs include the blitter and DMA circuits for the Agnus chip. He previously worked at Apple designing chips for the original Macintosh computer.

While at Apple working on the Macintosh, he was assigned with the task of designing a custom CMOS clock chip. Steve Jobs got him in touch with "the best chip designer I know", Jay Miner, who was then working at ZyMos.