David Perlmutter

David (Dadi) Perlmutter is executive vice president and general manager of Intel Corporation's Mobility Group. He is responsible for the architecting, developing and marketing of Intel's solutions for the mobile computing segment including Intel® Centrino® brand notebooks, mobile internet devices wireless networking and the development of the Intel Core2™ duo family of products for all of Intel. He also manages cross-Intel product development and architecture decisions.

Prior to his current role, Perlmutter was vice president and general manager of Mobile Platforms Group, where he developed the first Intel Centrino processor technology, which grew the mobile business and became the foundation for development of the Core2 Duo processor family.

He joined Intel in 1980 after graduating from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, with a B.Sc. in electrical engineering. Perlmutter holds patents on branch target buffers and multiprocessing cache coherency protocols. Perlmutter received an award for innovation in industrial development from the Israeli president in 1987 for the development of the i387 math coprocessor.