MercuryNews.com | 10/24/2005 | Chip maker emerges from stealth mode

"It isn't easy to hide a 150-employee microprocessor chip start-up in Silicon Valley.
But Dan Dobberpuhl managed to do it for two years, and he had his reasons. For one, he had to keep his product secret from much bigger rivals.
Concealing his team inside two floors of the McAfee high-rise building in Santa Clara, he asked new recruits to get on board without knowing what the company was doing. Once they were working, he asked them not to tell their spouses what they were working on.
``It was tricky to hire people without telling them what they would do,'' he said. ``We had to say, `Trust us. It's good.' ''"