Bob Colwell

Robert P. "Bob" Colwell (* 1954) is an American computer engineer, known as the principal architect of the P6 family, Intel.

Colwell, son of a milkman from Pennsylvania, graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and received his doctorate in electrical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University. He was from 1977 to 1980 at Bell Laboratories (where he was involved in the development of BellMac microprocessors) and computer design engineer at Multiflow ( a manufacturer of mini - supercomputers in the 1980s in New Haven ), before joining Intel in 1990. He was the main architect of the P6 family of processors ( Pentium Pro of 1995 and its successor ). He initiated and led the Pentium 4 development.

In 1997, he was Intel Fellow. In 2001, he left Intel. Since 2011 he has been Deputy Director of the Microsystems Technology Office of DARPA. He is a Fellow of IEEE and a Fellow of the National Academy of Engineering.

In 2005 he received the Eckert - Mauchly Award.

Writings

  • The Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel 's Landmark Chips, Wiley- IEEE Computer Society Press 2011
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