Farewell to Giuseppe Crippa, 'king' of Italian microelectronics

Giuseppe Crippa, founder of Technoprobe, a company with its heart in Brianza and offices in three continents that decided to stop for a day to remember "Peppino", has died at 90. Born in Robbiate, in the province of Lecco, after a brief period at Breda in the early 1960s he joined Sgs-Ates, which later became ST Microelettronics, where he began to work on semiconductors and also studied in Silicon Valley. He remained in the company for thirty years in various roles. It was two years before his retirement in 1993 that he began his own business.

Steve Jobs started in a garage, together with his son Cristiano (who has two siblings Roberto and Monica) and his wife Mariarosa Lavelli, who took care of the administration, he began the production of probe cards in the garage and in the attic.

When he retired in '95, Technoprobe was formally born, which debuted on the stock exchange at Euronext Growth' in 2022. Since then he has been on the list of the richest people in Italy. In the Forbes list published last April, his and his family's assets are valued at 3.1 billion. During Covid, he donated spaces for the vaccination campaign and paid the staff to set up a hub in the company's warehouses.

"Money is also useful for this - he explained in an interview with Corriere della Sera -. Otherwise nothing makes sense anymore. Growing to do something for others. And I say this because in my life there have been many people who have helped me. I don't know what will happen. I know that we need to continue investing in research because technological evolution is very rapid. We need to study new processes. But I have already done my part, I can retire satisfied.