John H. Crawford (born February 2, 1953) is an American
computer engineer
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.
During a long career at
Intel
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starting in 1977, he was the chief architect of the
Intel 80386
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Pentium
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microprocessor family. Crawford was the recipient of the 1995
Eckert–Mauchly Award
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National Academy of Engineering
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in 2002 for the architectural design of widely used microprocessors.
He retired from Intel in 2013.
In 2014, he was made a fellow of the Computer History Museum for his work on industry-standard microprocessor architectures.