Intel Opens Austin Development Center
Hmmmm....Intel is building a new facility right in their best customer's back yard. DELL will only become more and more important to Intel in the future. IMO, this is good news.
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(09/25/98 5:26 p.m. ET)
By Andy Patrizio, TechWeb
Intel said Thursday it has chosen Austin, Texas for its
seventh development center, and has hired a former
Motorola executive to lead the center.
Mark McDermott comes to Intel (company profile)
from one of its biggest competitors. At Motorola
(company profile) he was director of the Somerset
Design Center, where all PowerPC development took
place. During his time with Motorola, McDermott
helped found the company's Advanced Systems
Technology Lab, where he served as director of
system-on-a-chip design.
McDermott has experience both in management and
technology, and holds 15 patents in microprocessor
design. "He has a lot of technology expertise and a lot
of management experience, and he's shown in the past
he can lead a team," said Adam Grossberg, a
spokesman for Intel.
McDermott will report to Albert Yu, senior vice
president of Intel's microprocessor products group. He
will be responsible for recruiting talent from the local
universities and perhaps other technology firms with
local facilities, including Dell and IBM.
The center will be dedicated to developing future Intel
processors. Exactly what kind of development will be
determined after the staffing has been completed, said
Grossberg.
The development center will be housed along with the
StrongARM development and marketing center, but the
two units will be managed separately. The StrongARM
CPU was acquired from Digital Equipment earlier this
year, along with an Alpha CPU manufacturing plant in
Austin.
Intel picked the right person and location for the new
development center, said Keith Deifendorff, editor in
chief of The Microprocessor Report, who has known
McDermott for some time. "He is about as good a
choice as they could get down there," he said.
Austin was the best place to look outside of the Silicon
Valley, added Deifendorff. "They have quite a group of
engineers that have accumulated down there over the
years who are very good," he said. "So they have a
good talent pool to draw on." |
