Alper Ilkbahar is General Manager of Data Center Memory and Storage Solutions and Vice President Data Center Group at Intel, where he led the introduction of the world’s first persistent memory to market in 2018. Before taking on this position, he oversaw the commercialization of new non-volatile, high-performance memory technology at Matrix. Semiconductor and SanDisk, as well as holding design engineering and management roles in Intel’s microprocessor division. A 27-year veteran of the semiconductor industry, he earned an MSEE from the University of Michigan and an MBA from the Wharton School University of Pennsylvania. He holds over 50 patents in semiconductor process, device design, and testing and has published multiple conference and journal papers.
