Gene Hill spent most of his senior year at Oregon State University in the Integrated Circuit Lab designing his own chip and optimizing the wafer processing for it. This destined him for Silicon Valley. Gene has done graduate work at Universities of California Irvine, Long Beach, and Santa Clara.
Gene is most well known for proposing and developing Intel’s original 32-bit PC chip. He worked with UC Berkeley to introduce cutting edge design techniques and optimization in the design. He and his team were named Person of the Year by PC Magazine. Earlier the magazine named him an Unsung Hero for the 16-bit CPU design. He proposed, architected, and designed an industry standard microcontroller used in a wide range of applications in appliances and automobiles. The 8051 hit a peak production of 100 million a year and variations shipped for 30 years.
His chips introduced digital tuning to television and radio. A radical circuit approach changed the way dialing was implemented in telephones. In all, he designed dozens of chips during his 30-year career.
His chips introduced digital tuning to television and radio. A radical circuit approach changed the way dialing was implemented in telephones. In all, he designed dozens of chips during his 30-year career.
Gene is featured in Intel’s Museum and the Computer History Museum in Menlo Park, California.
Gene and his wife, Sandy, enjoy sailing on Puget Sound and together run a non-profit, Freedom13.org, to protect children. After helping Sandy publish many of her children’s books, she convinced Gene to finish his award-winning Cryptocurrencies, Self-Driving Cars, and Murder. His readers are demanding a sequel, and he has several on the drawing board. She is Brilliant: An Artificial Intelligence Mystery was published in 2019.
You can email Gene at GeneHill.writer@gmail.com.
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