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Peter MacWilliams is an Intel Senior Fellow, Digital Enterprise Group, and director of Platform Architecture. He is responsible for future platform directions. This role involves coordination of platform architectures and technologies both internally and with the industry. MacWilliams' primary focus areas are platform partitioning, memory technologies, cache technologies and interconnects.
During his career at Intel, MacWilliams has been involved with many bus and chipset architectures. He began his career working on analog I/O boards for the Multibus architecture. He was a key contributor to several buses in the Multibus family as well as the PCI bus and CPU buses beginning with the 80386. In addition he developed platform architectures and high-speed cache solutions for the 80386, 80486, the Pentium® processor and the Pentium® II processor. MacWilliams also worked with the memory industry to drive the performance of SDRAM, RDRAM and DDR RDRAM to keep pace with platform demands.
MacWilliams joined Intel in 1979 as a design engineer after receiving his master's in electrical engineering from U.C. Berkeley. He has been an Intel Fellow since 1990 and an Intel Senior Fellow since 2002. | 