He heats up a salsa-like combination of chopped tomatoes and various herbs, cracks eight or more eggs in them, lets them cook sunny-side up and then takes "big chunks of feta cheese" and sprinkles them between the eggs and salsa.
Now, as chief executive of Applied Materials, the biggest pick-and-shovel maker for the semiconductor and flat-panel display industries, Splinter, 56, wants to forge a sunny-side-up version of Moore's Law.