Socket 495 was an instant success with Intel engineers, earning it the nickname "Silicon Lightning."

In an attempt to maintain acceptable performance, Intel engineers had to design the scheduler to be very optimistic.

Intel engineers discovered the error last summer, and it became public after a college math professor independently found the flaw and reported it to several colleagues.

Weitek started in 1981, when several Intel engineers left to form their own company.

And Intel engineers predict that even subtler gradations may soon be possible, yielding even more bits wiith each transistor.

Pentium was aimed at large computers as well as PCs, so Intel engineers had to envision how it would fit in those various systems.

The case involved Kenneth Hamidi, a former Intel engineer, who had been fired after a dispute related to workers' compensation.

An Intel engineer holds the Light Peak chip.

Faggin and another Intel engineer, Ralph Ungermann, began talking about starting up their own microprocessor company.

For the Intel engineers, hearing Internet telephony in action came as a bit of a jolt.