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

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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

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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. In 2014, he was made a fellow of the

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for his work on industry-standard microprocessor architectures.

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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 {{US-electrical-engineer-stub