Avtar Saini is a microprocessor designer and developer. He holds some patents related to microprocessor design. He is also former director for

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's South Asia division. He is best known for his leadership role in the design and development of

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processor at

Career and achievements

Avtar holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from

VJTI Veermata Jijabai Technological Institute (VJTI) (Marathi : ''वीरमाता जिजाबाई टेक्नॉलोजिकल इन्स्टिट्यूट)'' is a state funded college located in Mumbai, Maharashtra, In ...

, Mumbai, and a master's degree in electrical engineering from the

University of Minnesota The University of Minnesota, formally the University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, (UMN Twin Cities, the U of M, or Minnesota) is a public university, public Land-grant university, land-grant research university in the Minneapolis–Saint Paul, Tw ...

. At Intel, Avtar co-led the development of the

processor and was responsible for the first phase development of Intel's 64-bit architecture - The Itanium Processor. He joined Intel in April 1982 as a Product Engineer in the area of magnetic bubble memories. Through the 1980s he worked as a circuit designer on the Intel386, and a micro-architect/logic designer on the Intel486. In 1989, he was promoted to co-lead the Pentium processor design team where he managed the design and its ramp into volume production. In 1994,

Saini Saini () is a caste of North India who were traditionally landowners (zamindars) and farmers. Sainis claim to be descendants of a king, Shurasena, as well as of Krishna and Porus, and to be related to the ancient Shoorsaini clan,'' "The Sain ...

was promoted as General Manager, Santa Clara Microprocessor Division where he managed Intel's next generation 64 byte architecture microprocessor. In May 1996, he moved to

Folsom, California Folsom is a city in Sacramento County, California, United States. It is commonly known for Folsom State Prison, the song "Folsom Prison Blues" by Johnny Cash, as well as for Folsom Lake. The population was 80,454 at the 2020 census. Folsom is pa ...

to head the Platform Components Division where he was responsible for the Chipset and Graphics solutions for the Intel Architecture platform. In September 1999, Saini was relocated to India as Director South Asia. Avtar left Intel in January 2004.Avtar Saini quits Intel, Business Standard, Raghuvir Badrinath / Bangalore February 24, 200

/ref> He holds 7 patents related to microprocessor design.

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* * * * University of Minnesota College of Science and Engineering alumni American people of Punjabi descent Living people People from Folsom, California Year of birth missing (living people) {{India-scientist-stub