| In his initial days at Intel, Sampat was based at Intel's facility in Portland, Oregon. Employed in its development tools operations division as a design engineer, one of the most important projects he worked on was that of the 386 processor. Within three years, Sampat became a project leader in the embedded systems division of Intel, where he worked on real-time operating systems. In 1991, when the Berlin Wall had come down, Sampat had moved to Munich, Germany to work for one of Intel's customers.
The setting-up of Intel's architecture lab saw Sampat moving back to the US in 1992, where he conducted research on the standard PC and also worked on the then new concept of Internet telephony. In 1997, he shifted to Intel's e-commerce division and worked there till 2001. He then moved to Singapore as director of Intel's e-business group in Asia. Two years later, in 2003, Sampat returned home as the president of Intel India. A powerhouse of IT that India is, Sampat has a huge responsibility of carrying Intel's vision in this country. And Sampat surely relishes every moment of that. |
