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Bob Colwell is an independent consultant and veteran microprocessor architect. Colwell was Chief Architect of Intel's IA32 microprocessors from 1992-2000, and managed the IA32 Arch group in Intel's Hillsboro, Oregon facility. Colwell joined Intel in 1990 as a Senior CPU Architect on the P6 (Pentium Pro) project, and became manager of the Architecture Group two years later. He was named an Intel Fellow in 1996, the highest technical grade at the company. Prior to his work at Intel, Colwell was a CPU architect and hardware designer at VLIW pioneer Multiflow Computer, and had technical roles at Perq and Bell Labs working on the BellMac series of microprocessors. Colwell holds 40+ patents and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2006. He is the Perspectives Editor for IEEE Computer Magazine and was the author of the At Random column, as well as the book "Pentium Chronicles: The People, Passion, and Politics Behind Intel's Landmark Chips." Colwell received his BSEE degree from the University of Pittsburgh, and his MSEE and PhD from Carnegie Mellon University. | 