Ronny Ronen is the director of the Microarchitecture Research, Intel Labs in the Intel Israel Design Center. The research group focuses on promoting microarchitecture innovations to improve performance and reduce power of future Intel IA32 processor generations. In the past, the group focused on microarchitecture innovations for high performance - including topics like ILP improvements, enhanced instruction caching structures, and more. Prior to his microarchitecture activities, Ronny led the PentiumŪ Processor compiler and performance simulation activities in the Intel Israel Software department (in Haifa). Before that he was involved in various software projects, most notably the development of software development tools for the 8051 microcontroller, leading the hosting of Intel tools on the VAX/VMS environment, leading the iRMX-286 R2.0 OS development, and leading the development of i860 software development tools. Ronny received his B.Sc. and M.Sc. degrees in Computer Science from the Technion, Israel Institute of Technology, in 1978 and 1979 respectively. Ronny is an Intel Principal Engineer and a senior member of the IEEE.