David B. Papworth was employed at Intel Corporation from 1990 to 2020, having served in positions including Principal Processor Architect and Intel Fellow. He has broad experience in CPU microarchitecture, the software/hardware interface, and is listed as co-inventor on more than 50 issued patents for his work.
Papworth is the recipient of the 2022 ACM Charles P. “Chuck” Thacker Breakthrough in Computing Award for fundamental groundbreaking contributions to Intel’s P6 out-of-order engine and Very Long Instruction Word (VLIW) processors. Introduced in 1995, the P6 microprocessor (marketed as the Pentium Pro) fit 5.5 million transistors on a single chip and was significantly faster than its predecessors. The architectural paradigm Papworth and his team developed for the P6 microchip is still in use today. The ACM Breakthrough Award celebrates leapfrog advances in computing.
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