Riordan, Walter Carl

Walter Riordan received the B.S (1980) in engineering physics from the University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona. He joined Intel Corporation in 1980 as a reliability engineer for the 8048 family of single chip microcontrollers. In his 25 years at Intel Mr. Riordan has worked in a number of different quality, reliability, yield, and design roles, and as an engineer and manager on a number of NMOS, CMOS, and EPROM processes and product families. He is currently a principal engineer in the quality and reliability group at Intel's fabrication facilities in Chandler, Arizona where he is responsible for developing and implementing new quality and reliability systems into high volume manufacturing. His primary interests are in the areas of defect reliability, reliability modeling, predictive models, and burn in.