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Rajesh Kumar leads circuit and power technology development for IA 32 microprocessors in the Digital Enterprise Group (DEG) and is currently directing work on Intel’s lead 45nm and 32nm microprocessors. Kumar is DEG’s interface to process technology for microprocessors and manages the circuit technology group.
Since coming to Intel in 1992, Kumar worked on design of the X86 instruction decoder for the P6, which became the Intel® Pentium® Pro, Pentium® II and Pentium® III processors. He focused on robust chip design in presence of signal integrity, crosstalk, inductance and noise for the Pentium 4, and company-wide. Kumar was the founding chair of Intel’s task force on cross capacitance and led the development of the first transistor level noise analysis tool in the industry used on commercial microprocessors. He designed the industry’s first test chip to measure on-chip signal inductance using active busses. From 2000 to the present, Kumar and his team have developed 14 new technologies in areas such as circuits, I/O, clocking, power technologies, power efficient computing, among others.
Kumar delivered the keynote at the MARCO/GSRC conference on power consumption in microprocessors at Stanford in 2004. He was a panelist on frequency limit of microprocessors at the IEEE VLSI Symposium in 2004.
Kumar received a master’s degree from California Institute of Technology in 1992 and a bachelor’s from the Indian Institute of Technology in 1991, both in electrical engineering. | 