Primary Job Title Founder & Managing Partner Primary Organization 
Eucalyptus Growth Capital
Location Israel, Asia Regions Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA), Middle East, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) Gender Male
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David Perlmutter has served as a member of our board of directors since May 2014. From 2009 until his recent retirement from Intel, David served as an executive vice president and general manager of the Intel Architecture Group (IAG), and chief product officer of Intel Corporation
Prior to his current role, David was senior vice president and
general manager of the Mobility Group, where he drove the creation of Intel's latest mobile products from the high-performance Intel® Core™ processor family to the low-power Intel® Atom™ processor family which enabled the netbook segment and allowed Intel to enter the ultra-low power handheld market.
As vice president and general manager of the Mobile Platforms Group, he developed the first Intel® Centrino® brand processor technology, which grew the mobile business and became the foundation for all future mobile products.
Previously, David was vice president, Microprocessor Products Group, and general manager, Basic Microprocessor Division as well as the manager of the Intel Israel Development Center in Haifa, where he led the development of the Intel® Extended Temperature Pentium® processor with MMX™ technology and its mobile versions as well as other products.
David also led the development teams that designed the Intel® i387™ math coprocessor and the Intel® i860™ XP RISC processor that defined the initial direction for the Pentium processor microarchitecture.
As general manager of the Microprocessor Division, he was responsible for the design, development and marketing of the Intel® Pentium® Pro and the Intel® Pentium® II processors.
David joined Intel in 1980 after graduating from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, with a B.Sc. in Electrical Engineering.He holds patents on branch target buffers and multiprocessing cache coherency protocols.
David received an award for innovation in industrial development from the Israeli president in 1987 for the development of the i387 math coprocessor. David was elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to the mobile personal computer industry.
