Rani N. Borkar

Vice President, Intel Architecture Group
Director, Microprocessor and Graphics Development
INTEL CORPORATION

Rani N. Borkar is vice president of the Intel Architecture Group and a director in Microprocessor and Graphics Develop for Intel Corporation. Borkar leads multiple engineering teams, across several geo-sites, and is responsible for the design and development of microprocessors for Intel's desktop, mobile and workstation computing segments as well as discrete and integrated graphics products.

Borkar joined Intel in 1988. She has held several technical and senior management positions in microprocessor design and development including the Intel® 80960 embedded processor, the Intel® Pentium® III processor and the Intel® Pentium® 4 processor. Borkar has led the development and delivery of numerous leadership products on the Pentium® 4 family. She led the team that delivered Intel's award-winning Pentium® 4 processor design on 130nm technology, and the industry's first 3GHz microprocessor in 2002. Most recently she led the development of Intel's newest generation of microprocessors, the Intel® Core™ i7, Intel® Core™ i5, and Intel® Xeon® processor 5500 series (code-named Nehalem).

Borkar received the Intel Achievement Award for the execution of the Pentium® 4 processor roadmap and delivering 3GHz in 2002. She received the Corporate Fellow Award in 2004 at the Linkage Women in Leadership Conference.

Borkar received her master's degree in physics from the University of Mumbai, India in 1982. She received her master's degree in electrical engineering from the Oregon Graduate Institute in 1989.