"I always used to refer to my team here internally as Dunnington from 'Dunn (Done) in garden town' (Bangalore)," says this Bangalorean.
He had his early schooling from the Indian Preparatory School in Malleswaram (a traditional locality in Bangalore), and higher secondary schooling from MES College before pursuing his BE in electronics and communication from Regional Engineering College, Tiruchirapalli.
Having joined Intel, US, in 1993 after his MS and PhD in electrical and computer engineering from the University of Texas, Austin, Vishakantaiah has been involved in various leadership positions for developing a series of microprocessors.
When in 2005, Intel decided to cancel the Whitefield Project, to design next-generation Xeon processors for servers, Vishakantaiah had been with Intel India for two years.
Image: Tom Kilroy, vice president and general manager of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group, displays a wafer from Intel's new Xeon 7400 Processor family, code-named Dunnington, at a news conference on September 15, 2008 in San Francisco, California | Photograph: Court Mast/Intel via Getty Images
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