Background
Colwell grew up in a small blue collar town in Pennsylvania and was born into a family of six children.
Colwell grew up in a small blue collar town in Pennsylvania and was born into a family of six children.
He attended the University of Pittsburgh and gained an undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering.
He was the chief Iowa-32 architect on the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, Pentium III, and Pentium 4 microprocessors. Bob retired from Intel in 2000. He was an Intel Fellow from 1995 to 2000.
He later attended Carnegie Mellon University to get a Doctor of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering.
Colwell worked at a company called Multiflow in the late 1980s as a design engineer In 1990 he joined Intel as a senior architect and was involved in the development of the P6 "core".
The P6 core was used in the Pentium Pro, Pentium II, and Pentium III microprocessors, and designs derived from it are used in the Pentium M, Core Duo and Core Solo, and Core 2 microprocessors sold by Intel.
American Academy of Arts and Sciences.