David (Dadi) Perlmutter is senior vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Mobility Group. He is responsible for the design, development and marketing of Intel's solutions for the mobile computing segment including Intel Centrino mobile technology. He also manages cross-Intel product development and architecture decisions.
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.
He joined Intel in 1980 after graduating from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, with a B.SC. in electrical engineering.
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 Intel 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.
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. |