John H. Crawford (born February 2, 1953) is an American
computer engineer.
During a long career at
Intel starting in 1977, he was the chief architect of the
Intel 80386 and
Intel 80486
The Intel 486, officially named i486 and also known as 80486, is a microprocessor. It is a higher-performance follow-up to the Intel 386. The i486 was introduced in 1989. It represents the fourth generation of binary compatible CPUs following the ...
microprocessors. He also co-managed the design of the Intel
P5 Pentium microprocessor family.
Crawford was the recipient of the 1995
Eckert–Mauchly Award. He was awarded the
IEEE Ernst Weber Engineering Leadership Recognition
Through its awards program, the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers recognizes contributions that advance the fields of interest to the IEEE. For nearly a century, the IEEE Awards Program has paid tribute to technical professionals ...
in 1997.
Crawford was elected a member of the
National Academy of Engineering in 2002 for the architectural design of widely used microprocessors.
He retired from Intel in 2013.
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In 2014, he was made a fellow of the
Computer History Museum
The Computer History Museum (CHM) is a museum of computer history, located in Mountain View, California. The museum presents stories and artifacts of Silicon Valley and the information age, and explores the computing revolution and its impact on ...
for his work on industry-standard microprocessor architectures.
Bibliography
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References
External links
Oral History of John H. Crawford 2014 Computer History Museum Fellow
Computer designers
21st-century American engineers
Intel people
Living people
Members of the United States National Academy of Engineering
1953 births
American electrical engineers
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