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Intel Appoints Four New Fellows, Names New Vice PresidentFormer Compaq Employees Join Intel as Part of Itanium™ Processor AgreementSANTA CLARA, Calif., Aug. 30, 2001 - Intel Corporation today announced that four individuals have been appointed to the company's highest technical position, Intel Fellow. The new Intel Fellows are Joel S. Emer, Tryggve Fossum, William J. Grundmann and P. Geoffrey Lowney. In addition, Intel today announced that Daniel J. Casaletto has been appointed vice president, Intel Architecture Group. Today's appointments are the result of the recent agreement with Compaq Computer Corporation to transfer key enterprise processor technology to Intel and consolidate Compaq's entire 64-bit server family on the Intel® Itanium™ microprocessor family. The four Fellows and newly named vice president are among more than 200 former Compaq microprocessor engineering and design employees who have already joined Intel as part of the agreement. The addition of this group of highly skilled technical personnel will add substantially to the strength of Intel Itanium Processor family development. New Intel FellowsJoel Emer is director of microarchitecture research at Intel's Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center (MMDC) in Shrewsbury, Mass. Emer, 47, is responsible for leading research in 64-bit microarchitecture design at the MMDC. He received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering in 1974 and his master's degree in 1975, both from Purdue University. He earned a doctorate in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois in 1979. Emer holds nine patents with three others pending. Tryggve Fossum is director of microarchitecture development at the Intel MMDC. Fossum, 56, is responsible for leading the team of architects helping to develop the next generation of Intel Itanium processors. Fossum received a Cand Mag degree in science from the University of Oslo in 1968. He earned his master's and doctorate degrees in mathematics from the University of Illinois in 1970 and 1972, respectively. Fossum holds 27 patents on various aspects of computer design -- including floating point processing, multithreading and cache organization technologies -- as a result of his work on VAX and Alpha processors. William Grundmann is director of design technologies at Intel's MMDC. Grundmann, 49, is responsible for specification and development of design methodology and computer-aided design (CAD) tools for microprocessor design. He received his bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Oklahoma State University in 1974. Grundmann holds five patents. Geoff Lowney is the director of compiler and architecture advanced development at the Intel MMDC. Lowney, 48, is responsible for advanced compiler technology in future Intel Itanium processor family products. Lowney received his bachelor's degree in mathematics and master's and doctorate degrees in computer science from Yale University in 1975, 1978 and 1983, respectively. He holds six patents with an additional six patent disclosures filed. New Vice PresidentDaniel Casaletto is vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and general manager of the Intel Massachusetts Microprocessor Design Center. In this role, Casaletto, 51, has managerial responsibility for all research and development activities at the MMDC. Casaletto received his bachelor's and master's degrees in electrical engineering from Northeastern University in 1972 and 1976, respectively. Intel is a trademark of Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other countries. * Other names and brands may be claimed as the property of others. |
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