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John Crawford

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John H. Crawford is an American computer engineer, born February 2, 1953, who served as chief architect for Intel's 80386 and 80486 microprocessors, co-managed the design of the Pentium processor family, and led the HP-Intel team that developed the Itanium architecture. He joined Intel in 1977 and rose to become an Intel Fellow, the company's highest-ranking technical position, retiring in 2013. Crawford earned a Bachelor of Arts from Brown University and a Master of Science from the University of North Carolina. He received the Eckert-Mauchly Award in 1995, the IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition in 1997, and was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for the architectural design of widely used microprocessors.

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