Intel’s CEO left his mark on all 386

Intel’s CEO (“CEO”) has been in office since 2021 Pat Gelsinger He began his career in 1979 at Santa Clara Semiconductor Manufacturing Company and is considered one of the fathers of the company Intel 80386, which was marketed between 1985 and 2007 as the Intel i386 and later became known worldwide as the “386”. Co-author of “The Bible” Programming 80386 He became the company’s first chief technology officer (“CTO”), and one of its engineers Intel 80486He also achieved global fame as the “486er”, and led more than one lecturer in Intel’s x86 processor development programs.

Pat Gelsinger has made his mark

But Pat Gelsinger has not only left a deep mark through his impressive career and influence on CPU development at Intel. Such as reverse engineer and computer historian Ken Shariff, a true expert on old computer chips and CPUs, has now announced via SMS in Blog about 386 Computer scientist Sherif explains that Gelsinger etched his abbreviation “PG” indelibly onto the CPU silicon in two places.

source: Ken Shariff via X

Pat Gelsinger, considered one of the key figures and “principal design architect” of the Intel 80386 and Intel 80486, and which then-Microsoft CEO Bill Gates described in 1989 as “the processor for the rest of the century,” was probably less sure. He will be remembered and spontaneously decided to create a monument to himself in the world famous Intel 80386.