P. A. Semi
I dont know much about this -- but seems like the DEC had the best of the microprocessor designers.. The high flowing companies like Sibyte, Cavium, and now PA Semi, (and many others in the middle) had people from DEC.
His one discussion with some other bigshot, might be a good read for people interested in Processor VLSI.
http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=showpage&pid=75