Sunit Rikhi

Vice President, Technology and Manufacturing Group
General Manager, Custom Intel Architecture Foundry
INTEL CORPORATION

Sunit Rikhi is vice president, Technology Manufacturing Group, and general manager of custom IA foundry. His organization provides turnkey custom foundry services to internal and external business units.

Rikhi joined Intel in 1984 as a senior CAD s/w engineer in design technology where he developed an internal layout verification and extraction system. Since then, Rikhi has held a variety of senior engineering management positions in Technology and Manufacturing Group including mask operations, manufacturing automation and Logic Technology Development. Rikhi led the development of 300mm automation in Intel's advanced fabs and later was responsible for logic technology planning and collateral circuits development. Rikhi was appointed vice president, Technology and Manufacturing Group in 2006.

Rikhi received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the Birla Institute of Technology and Sciences at Pilani, India in 1979, and his master's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Washington in 1981.