Thomas Piazza is an Intel Fellow and director of Graphics Integrated Chipset Architecture. He is responsible for definition of features as well as cost, performance and implementation of all graphics-related functions for mainstream integrated graphics controllers.
Piazza joined Intel in February 1997. Prior to joining Intel, he was chief engineer at Lockheed Martin where he was responsible for graphics development, including the jointly developed Intel740 Graphics Accelerator. Previous to that, Piazza was involved in various technical roles during a 17-year career with General Electric's flight simulator business.
Piazza received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Pratt Institute in 1978. He holds 17 patents relating to graphics algorithms and memory arbitration. |