Chris Cavigioli
Strategic Planner
Intel Corporation

Mr. Cavigioli is Strategic Planner at Intel Corp in the Ultra Mobility Group (UMG), responsible for multimedia strategy for Intel's Atom™ processors. Atom is Intel's smallest processor built with the world's smallest transistors. Mobile Internet Devices (MIDs) are the target market.

Chris is also partner at NoWires Strategy Group, delivering product marketing and business development services for semiconductors. He is passionate about processor-based silicon, RF, reconfigurable computing, wireless communications, digital TV, location-based services and multimedia entertainment.

Chris Cavigioli most-recently defined the multimedia roadmap at MIPS Technologies, spanning handheld mobile devices in the pocket to blue laser optical disc technologies in the living room. Chris directed internal and third party programs to deliver audio, video, imaging and graphics solutions, encompassing applications software and hardware acceleration for critical functions.

Prior to joining MIPS Technologies, Chris was director of product marketing at NemeriX, makers of the world’s lowest power GPS chipset. During his tenure with NemeriX, Chris defined and launched the company’s next-generation A-GPS chipset for indoor applications and brought NemeriX to its first $1M revenue.

Prior to NemeriX, Chris commercialized the world’s first SystemC™ transaction level models for ARM®/AMBA™ platforms while at Synopsys. He launched reference design kits for TD-SCDMA for the Chinese 3G market, Bluetooth® wireless, 802.11 a/b/g WLAN and DOCSIS® cable modems. Chris was selected to lead his group’s business development for the Asia-Pacific region and tripled sales during the first quarter in that role.

At Analog Devices, Chris defined commercial GSM chipsets and assisted customers through type approval. He represented his company’s interests at ETSI/3GPP as well as contributing to technical working groups on radio aspects and speech/media coding. He was elected secretary of ECTEL TMS, an industry-wide organization of mobile manufacturers dealing with regulatory and trade issues as well as representing the voice of the manufacturers to the GSM Association.

Chris joined the MPEG and JPEG standards committees, evangelized software-based media platforms and pioneered software development business models in India and Russia. This culminated in DSP design-wins on the PC motherboard for multimedia acceleration and V.32 soft modems. Chris established the European DSP Applications Center in Munich, Germany in 1993.

Chris speaks five languages, has worked seven years in Europe and over ten years in Silicon Valley, Boston and Washington DC. He holds an electrical engineering degree from WPI, which included a year of study at the ETH in Zurich, Switzerland.

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