Pat Gelsinger
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Patrick P. Gelsinger is the President and Chief Operating Officer, EMC Information Infrastructure Products at EMC Corporation
. Before joining EMC, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation
and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.
Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979 and EMC in September, 2009.
Gelsinger holds an AA degree from Lincoln Technical Institute (1979), a B.S. magna cum laude from Santa Clara University
(1983), and an M.S. from Stanford University
(1985). Both degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was also given an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from William Jessup University
(2008).
Gelsinger began his career at Intel as a Quality and Assurance Technician working on a variety of microprocessor and chipset components. Later, he held the positions of Director of the Platform Architecture Group, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386 and i286 chip design teams. His promotion to Group Vice President in 1991 at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.
From 1986 to 1989 Gelsinger was Design Manager of the i486 microprocessor families. He was recognized as PC Magazine
“Person of the Year” for his leadership and contribution to this effort. Before being elevated to design manager, he was the first engineer on the project and the original architect of the 80486 development effort. He designed the 80486 pipeline
, the first ever x86-compatible pipelined machine design. The basic in-order machine pipeline he invented remains in use to this day.
From 1989 to 1992, Gelsinger was General Manager of the division responsible for the Pentium Pro
, IntelDX2
, and Intel486 microprocessor families. During this period he led the creation of the Pentium Pro architecture including key innovations including native multi-processing, backside cache, and dynamic execution He also drove the 80486 DX2 and the Intel486 compaction onto .25u process technology into mass volume production.
From 1992 to 1996, Gelsinger was instrumental in beginning Intel’s efforts in internet
communication products. He led defining and delivering video and audio codec
technology and standards in support of the Intel ProShare video conferencing product line as well as launching the first, standards-based internet telephony product in the industry.
From 1996 to April 2000 Gelsinger ran the desktop product group responsible for all desktop CPUs, chipset
s and motherboard
s for Intel desktop product offerings and the largest revenue business for the company. During this period of time he launched the Intel Developer Forum
as a counterpart to Microsoft
's WinHEC. The forum is held in the spring and fall in the U.S. and multiple locations internationally. It has grown in size and reputation and is broadly regarded as the preeminent technology conference in the computer and communications industry.
From 2000 to 2001 Gelsinger was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
of the Intel Architecture Group, the largest business unit the company responsible for mobile, desktop and server platforms. From this position he managed the largest lab and advanced development organization for the company. He drove R+D programs in numerous software and hardware technologies including advanced circuits, signaling, and software. He was responsible for driving key strategies in power reduction, hyper-threading
and trusted platforms
. In this role he launched key standard efforts covering memory interfaces, processor interconnect, processor extensions and input/output interfaces for most aspects of the IA architecture in mobile, desktop and servers.
From 2001 to 2005, Gelsinger was Senior Corporate Vice-President and the Chief Technology Office for Intel Corporation. In this capacity he was responsible for the Long Term Technology and Research directions for the corporation. He was also responsible for driving the technology alignment across the various Intel product divisions. He drove standards and industry alignment through a variety of standards efforts and industry activities including the highly successful bi-annual Intel Develop Forum. Gelsinger was named CTO in September 2001, the first person in the history of the company to receive this title. During his leadership he drove Intel’s thrust into wireless
, including Wi-Fi
, WiMAX
, UWB
and CMOS
-based radios (overall strategy known as Radio Free Intel). He also drove the efforts in Sensor networks including key technologies like Motes and TinyOS
. He also drove low power systems technologies, including the launch of low-power IA architecture programs that today have been realized in the in Intel Atom
processor family. He was heavily involved in key standards efforts including TCPA/TCG
and the Trusted Platform Module
, PCI Express
, Home networking including DLNA, Content Protection technologies such as DTCP. He is also well known for his ground-breaking efforts in Energy Efficient Computing
, which, when launched in 2001 were contrary to the industry direction. He was also quite active in Broadband Policy setting in place the policy framework used by the Federal Communications Commission
(FCC) now known as Net neutrality.
From 2005 to 2009, Gelsinger was a Senior Corporate Vice-President and the general manager for the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. In this role he led the single largest business group for Intel with over 12,000 employees and over $20B of Revenue. This group includes Intel’s enterprise products including clients (PC’s), Servers (Xeon
and Itanium
), communications (Embedded and IXP), Visualization and Storage Products. In this capacity he was leading a large portion of Intel’s product development and Intel’s turnaround in the enterprise market. Efforts such as Intel’s leadership in bringing vPro
and CentrinoPro™ platform to market, restoring leadership in Xeon Products, First quad-core products to market and leading thrust in visualization are direct results of his efforts. Under his leadership, Intel is generally recognized as having restored leadership in all portions of its product line.
Gelsinger and his wife Linda have four children: Elizabeth, Josiah, Nathan and Micah. Gelsinger has served as an Elder at Singing Hills Christian Church in Hillsboro, Oregon
from 1996 to 2005. For 16 years he led a weekly home Bible Study and periodically is an Adult Sunday School Teacher at Singing Hills. He speaks periodically on the subject of being a witness in the workplace and prioritizing career, family and spiritual demands both in the US and internationally.
EMC Corporation
EMC Corporation , a Financial Times Global 500, Fortune 500 and S&P 500 company, develops, delivers and supports information infrastructure and virtual infrastructure hardware, software, and services. EMC is headquartered in Hopkinton, Massachusetts, USA.Former Intel executive Richard Egan and his...
. Before joining EMC, he was the first Chief Technology Officer of Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation
Intel Corporation is an American multinational semiconductor chip maker corporation headquartered in Santa Clara, California, United States and the world's largest semiconductor chip maker, based on revenue. It is the inventor of the x86 series of microprocessors, the processors found in most...
and Senior Vice-president and General Manager of the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel.
Gelsinger joined Intel in 1979 and EMC in September, 2009.
Gelsinger holds an AA degree from Lincoln Technical Institute (1979), a B.S. magna cum laude from Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University
Santa Clara University is a private, not-for-profit, Jesuit-affiliated university located in Santa Clara, California, United States. Chartered by the state of California and accredited by the Western Association of Schools and Colleges, it operates in collaboration with the Society of Jesus , whose...
(1983), and an M.S. from Stanford University
Stanford University
The Leland Stanford Junior University, commonly referred to as Stanford University or Stanford, is a private research university on an campus located near Palo Alto, California. It is situated in the northwestern Santa Clara Valley on the San Francisco Peninsula, approximately northwest of San...
(1985). Both degrees are in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He was also given an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from William Jessup University
William Jessup University
William Jessup University is a small non-denominational Christian college located in Rocklin, California. The university had just under 900 students in the Fall of 2011 with both a record entering class and a record total enrollment as of Fall 2011.-History:...
(2008).
Gelsinger began his career at Intel as a Quality and Assurance Technician working on a variety of microprocessor and chipset components. Later, he held the positions of Director of the Platform Architecture Group, manager of CAD methodologies, and key contributor on the original i386 and i286 chip design teams. His promotion to Group Vice President in 1991 at age 32 made him the youngest vice president in the history of the company.
From 1986 to 1989 Gelsinger was Design Manager of the i486 microprocessor families. He was recognized as PC Magazine
PC Magazine
PC Magazine is a computer magazine published by Ziff Davis Publishing Holdings Inc. A print edition was published from 1982 to January 2009...
“Person of the Year” for his leadership and contribution to this effort. Before being elevated to design manager, he was the first engineer on the project and the original architect of the 80486 development effort. He designed the 80486 pipeline
Instruction pipeline
An instruction pipeline is a technique used in the design of computers and other digital electronic devices to increase their instruction throughput ....
, the first ever x86-compatible pipelined machine design. The basic in-order machine pipeline he invented remains in use to this day.
From 1989 to 1992, Gelsinger was General Manager of the division responsible for the Pentium Pro
Pentium Pro
The Pentium Pro is a sixth-generation x86 microprocessor developed and manufactured by Intel introduced in November 1, 1995 . It introduced the P6 microarchitecture and was originally intended to replace the original Pentium in a full range of applications...
, IntelDX2
Intel 80486DX2
The Intel 80486DX2 is a CPU produced by Intel that was introduced in 1992. The i486DX2 was nearly identical to the i486DX but for the addition of clock multiplier circuitry. It was the first chip to use clock doubling, whereby the processor runs two internal logic clock cycles per external bus cycle...
, and Intel486 microprocessor families. During this period he led the creation of the Pentium Pro architecture including key innovations including native multi-processing, backside cache, and dynamic execution He also drove the 80486 DX2 and the Intel486 compaction onto .25u process technology into mass volume production.
From 1992 to 1996, Gelsinger was instrumental in beginning Intel’s efforts in internet
Internet
The Internet is a global system of interconnected computer networks that use the standard Internet protocol suite to serve billions of users worldwide...
communication products. He led defining and delivering video and audio codec
Codec
A codec is a device or computer program capable of encoding or decoding a digital data stream or signal. The word codec is a portmanteau of "compressor-decompressor" or, more commonly, "coder-decoder"...
technology and standards in support of the Intel ProShare video conferencing product line as well as launching the first, standards-based internet telephony product in the industry.
From 1996 to April 2000 Gelsinger ran the desktop product group responsible for all desktop CPUs, chipset
Chipset
A chipset, PC chipset, or chip set refers to a group of integrated circuits, or chips, that are designed to work together. They are usually marketed as a single product.- Computers :...
s and motherboard
Motherboard
In personal computers, a motherboard is the central printed circuit board in many modern computers and holds many of the crucial components of the system, providing connectors for other peripherals. The motherboard is sometimes alternatively known as the mainboard, system board, or, on Apple...
s for Intel desktop product offerings and the largest revenue business for the company. During this period of time he launched the Intel Developer Forum
Intel Developer Forum
Intel Developer Forum , is a gathering of technologists to discuss Intel products and products based around Intel products. The first IDF was in 1997...
as a counterpart to Microsoft
Microsoft
Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...
's WinHEC. The forum is held in the spring and fall in the U.S. and multiple locations internationally. It has grown in size and reputation and is broadly regarded as the preeminent technology conference in the computer and communications industry.
From 2000 to 2001 Gelsinger was the Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
Chief technical officer
A chief technology officer is an executive-level position in a company or other entity whose occupant is focused on scientific and technological issues within an organization....
of the Intel Architecture Group, the largest business unit the company responsible for mobile, desktop and server platforms. From this position he managed the largest lab and advanced development organization for the company. He drove R+D programs in numerous software and hardware technologies including advanced circuits, signaling, and software. He was responsible for driving key strategies in power reduction, hyper-threading
Hyper-threading
Hyper-threading is Intel's term for its simultaneous multithreading implementation in its Atom, Intel Core i3/i5/i7, Itanium, Pentium 4 and Xeon CPUs....
and trusted platforms
Trusted Platform Module
In computing, Trusted Platform Module is both the name of a published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification, often called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security...
. In this role he launched key standard efforts covering memory interfaces, processor interconnect, processor extensions and input/output interfaces for most aspects of the IA architecture in mobile, desktop and servers.
From 2001 to 2005, Gelsinger was Senior Corporate Vice-President and the Chief Technology Office for Intel Corporation. In this capacity he was responsible for the Long Term Technology and Research directions for the corporation. He was also responsible for driving the technology alignment across the various Intel product divisions. He drove standards and industry alignment through a variety of standards efforts and industry activities including the highly successful bi-annual Intel Develop Forum. Gelsinger was named CTO in September 2001, the first person in the history of the company to receive this title. During his leadership he drove Intel’s thrust into wireless
Wireless
Wireless telecommunications is the transfer of information between two or more points that are not physically connected. Distances can be short, such as a few meters for television remote control, or as far as thousands or even millions of kilometers for deep-space radio communications...
, including Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi
Wi-Fi or Wifi, is a mechanism for wirelessly connecting electronic devices. A device enabled with Wi-Fi, such as a personal computer, video game console, smartphone, or digital audio player, can connect to the Internet via a wireless network access point. An access point has a range of about 20...
, WiMAX
WiMAX
WiMAX is a communication technology for wirelessly delivering high-speed Internet service to large geographical areas. The 2005 WiMAX revision provided bit rates up to 40 Mbit/s with the 2011 update up to 1 Gbit/s for fixed stations...
, UWB
Ultra-wideband
Ultra-wideband is a radio technology that can be used at very low energy levels for short-range high-bandwidth communications by using a large portion of the radio spectrum. UWB has traditional applications in non-cooperative radar imaging...
and CMOS
CMOS
Complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor is a technology for constructing integrated circuits. CMOS technology is used in microprocessors, microcontrollers, static RAM, and other digital logic circuits...
-based radios (overall strategy known as Radio Free Intel). He also drove the efforts in Sensor networks including key technologies like Motes and TinyOS
TinyOS
TinyOS is a free and open source component-based operating system and platform targeting wireless sensor networks . TinyOS is an embedded operating system written in the nesC programming language as a set of cooperating tasks and processes. It is intended to be incorporated into smartdust...
. He also drove low power systems technologies, including the launch of low-power IA architecture programs that today have been realized in the in Intel Atom
Intel Atom
Intel Atom is the brand name for a line of ultra-low-voltage x86 and x86-64 CPUs from Intel, designed in 45 nm CMOS and used mainly in netbooks, nettops, embedded application ranging from health care to advanced robotics and Mobile Internet devices...
processor family. He was heavily involved in key standards efforts including TCPA/TCG
Trusted Computing Group
The Trusted Computing Group , successor to the Trusted Computing Platform Alliance , is an initiative started by AMD, Hewlett-Packard, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft to implement Trusted Computing...
and the Trusted Platform Module
Trusted Platform Module
In computing, Trusted Platform Module is both the name of a published specification detailing a secure cryptoprocessor that can store cryptographic keys that protect information, as well as the general name of implementations of that specification, often called the "TPM chip" or "TPM Security...
, PCI Express
PCI Express
PCI Express , officially abbreviated as PCIe, is a computer expansion card standard designed to replace the older PCI, PCI-X, and AGP bus standards...
, Home networking including DLNA, Content Protection technologies such as DTCP. He is also well known for his ground-breaking efforts in Energy Efficient Computing
Green computing
Green computing or green IT, refers to environmentally sustainable computing or IT. In the article Harnessing Green IT: Principles and Practices, San Murugesan defines the field of green computing as "the study and practice of designing, manufacturing, using, and disposing of computers, servers,...
, which, when launched in 2001 were contrary to the industry direction. He was also quite active in Broadband Policy setting in place the policy framework used by the Federal Communications Commission
Federal Communications Commission
The Federal Communications Commission is an independent agency of the United States government, created, Congressional statute , and with the majority of its commissioners appointed by the current President. The FCC works towards six goals in the areas of broadband, competition, the spectrum, the...
(FCC) now known as Net neutrality.
From 2005 to 2009, Gelsinger was a Senior Corporate Vice-President and the general manager for the Digital Enterprise Group at Intel. In this role he led the single largest business group for Intel with over 12,000 employees and over $20B of Revenue. This group includes Intel’s enterprise products including clients (PC’s), Servers (Xeon
Xeon
The Xeon is a brand of multiprocessing- or multi-socket-capable x86 microprocessors from Intel Corporation targeted at the non-consumer server, workstation and embedded system markets.-Overview:...
and Itanium
Itanium
Itanium is a family of 64-bit Intel microprocessors that implement the Intel Itanium architecture . Intel markets the processors for enterprise servers and high-performance computing systems...
), communications (Embedded and IXP), Visualization and Storage Products. In this capacity he was leading a large portion of Intel’s product development and Intel’s turnaround in the enterprise market. Efforts such as Intel’s leadership in bringing vPro
VPRO
The VPRO was established in the Netherlands in 1926 as a religious broadcasting organization. Falling under the Protestant pillar, it represented the Liberal Protestant current...
and CentrinoPro™ platform to market, restoring leadership in Xeon Products, First quad-core products to market and leading thrust in visualization are direct results of his efforts. Under his leadership, Intel is generally recognized as having restored leadership in all portions of its product line.
Gelsinger and his wife Linda have four children: Elizabeth, Josiah, Nathan and Micah. Gelsinger has served as an Elder at Singing Hills Christian Church in Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro, Oregon
Hillsboro is the fifth-largest city in the U.S. state of Oregon and is the county seat of Washington County. Lying in the Tualatin Valley on the west side of the Portland metropolitan area, the city is home to many high-technology companies, such as Intel, that compose what has become known as the...
from 1996 to 2005. For 16 years he led a weekly home Bible Study and periodically is an Adult Sunday School Teacher at Singing Hills. He speaks periodically on the subject of being a witness in the workplace and prioritizing career, family and spiritual demands both in the US and internationally.