Stephen L. Smith

Vice President
Director, Digital Enterprise Group Operations
INTEL CORPORATION

Stephen L. Smith is vice president and director of business operations for the Digital Enterprise Group (DEG), Intel’s largest business group accounting for more than half of the corporation’s revenue. As director of operations for DEG, Smith is focused on optimizing business practices and methods in order for the group to deliver leading platforms and products to businesses worldwide. These platforms span the full gamut of business needs including servers, business clients, storage, communications and embedded applications. In addition to delivering platforms, DEG designs and develops many of the platform ingredients such as microprocessors, chipsets, motherboards, networking components and software.

Since joining Intel in February of 1979 as a device physicist for Static RAM Technology Development, Smith has held a variety of management and director positions at Intel. In the memory technology area, he served as Static RAM design manager and as EEPROM design manager, where he participated in development of Flash technology. In 1987, Smith moved to the microprocessor group at Intel, where he held the following positions: design manager for i386™ SX and i386 SL processors; assistant general manager for the Mobile Computing Group; and engineering manager for the Pentium® Processor Division. Prior to his most recent assignment, Smith was director of operations for the Desktop platforms business. He continues to lead many cross Intel taskforces such as the Intel® Pentium® 4 Processor Task Force.

From 1995 through 1997, Smith was general manager of the Pentium Processor Division, responsible for the development and marketing of Pentium processor products, including the first processors with MMX™ technology.

Before coming to Intel, Smith worked as a design engineer at Hewlett-Packard company in Cupertino, Calif. Smith received a bachelor’s degree in Electrical Engineering from Rice University in Houston, Texas. Smith received three patents in circuit design in the course of his work at Intel.