David Perlmutter

Executive Vice President
General Manager, Mobility Group
INTEL CORPORATION

David (Dadi) Perlmutter is executive vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Mobility Group. He is responsible for the architecting, developing and marketing of Intel's solutions for the mobile computing segment including Intel® Centrino® brand notebooks, mobile internet devices wireless networking and the development of the Intel Core2™ duo family of products for all of Intel. He also manages cross-Intel product development and architecture decisions.

Prior to his current role, Perlmutter was vice president and general manager of Mobile Platforms Group, where he developed the first Intel Centrino processor technology, which grew the mobile business and became the foundation for development of the Core2 Duo processor family.

Previously, Perlmutter was vice president, Microprocessor Products Group, and general manager, Basic Microprocessor Division as well as the manager of the Intel Israel Development Center in Haifa, where he led the development of the Intel® Extended Temperature Pentium® processor with MMX™ technology and its mobile versions as well as other products. He took over as general manager of the Mobile Platforms Group in 2000 and became co-manager with Sean Maloney of the Mobility Group in 2004.

Perlmutter led the development teams of the Intel® i387™ math coprocessor and Intel® i860™ XP RISC processor in the Israel Development Center. He also led the team that defined the initial direction for the Pentium processor microarchitecture. In 1992, he became general manager of the Microprocessor Division responsible for the design, development and marketing of the Intel® Pentium® Pro and the Intel® Pentium® II processors.

He joined Intel in 1980 after graduating from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering.

Perlmutter holds patents on branch target buffers and multiprocessing cache coherency protocols. Perlmutter received an award for innovation in industrial development from the Israeli president in 1987 for the development of the i387 math coprocessor.