Uri C. Weiser
Uri C. Weiser (* 1945 in Tel Aviv ) is an Israeli computer engineer. He is considered the father of the Pentium architecture at Intel .
Weiser studied electrical engineering at the Technion with a bachelor's degree in 1970 and a master's degree in 1975 (diploma thesis: A logarithmic preamplifier for laser signal detection) and received his doctorate in computer science from the University of Utah under Alan L. Davis in 1981 (mathematical and graphical tools for the creation of computational arrays). In Israel, he worked as a systems engineer for the Israeli Ministry of Defense in Haifa from 1970 to 1984 and then headed the development of the NS32532 microprocessor at the National Semiconductor Design Center in Herzlia . From 1988 to 2006 he was at Intel, where he was initially manager of the Microprocessor Architecture Group in Haifa. At the end of the 1980s there was a tendency to switch to the RISC architecture, which was generally considered to be pioneering at the time, instead of the CISC architecture previously used in Intel's X86 architectures . But Weiser convinced the Intel management to proceed with the CISC architecture and instead innovations such as superscalar architecture and branch prediction drive (Branch Prediction). This formed the basis for the Pentium developed in the early 1990s. He then headed the development of MMX technology for multimedia applications at Intel . He is co-inventor of the Trace Cache . At Intel, he switched between California (Director of the Platform Architecture Center in Santa Clara 1991/92), Texas and Israel (in his early years and 1993 to 1998 as Director of Computer Architecture and Planning at the VlSI Design Center of Intel Israel, 2001 to 2006 as Director of the Streaming Media Architecture Laboratory). He was co-director of Intel's new Design Center in Austin, Texas in 1999/2000 and led research for Advanced Media Applications. In the late 1990s, he headed Intel's Israel Development Center.
He is considered a leading expert in asymmetric and heterogeneous multi-core processor architectures. After his time at Intel, he was involved in several startups in Israel.
From 1982 to 2006 he was Adjunct Associate Professor at the Technion, where he has since retired. Today he is visiting professor there.
For 2016 he received the Eckert-Mauchly Award .
He is a Fellow of the IEEE , the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and an Intel Fellow (1996).
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ Appreciation on the occasion of the Eckert-Mauchly Awards
- ↑ Appointment as an Intel Fellow, press release Intel 1996 , after that he was 51 years old at the time
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Weiser, Uri C. |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wise, Uri |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Israeli computer engineer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1945 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tel Aviv |