Ron Friedman is vice president and general manager of the Mobile Microprocessors Group. He is responsible for teams located in California and Israel that design processors for the converged core roadmap, serving the mobile, server and desktop market segments.

Previously Friedman was design manager for the original Pentium® M processor and as well as the next generation Pentium M processor code-named Merom.

He joined Intel in 1984 after graduating from Technion, Israel Institute of Technology with a B.Sc in Computer Engineering.

Friedman was a recipient of Intel's highest honor, the Intel Achievement Award, in 1986 for development of CAD tools for static analysis of circuitry (CLCD).