Dac C. Pham joined IBM in 1987, where he worked on IBM's 386 SX, 386SLP, and Blue Lightning family of processors (an X86 compatible architecture). In 1992, he joined the Apple-IBM-Motorola's Somerset Design Center , where he worked on IBM's PowerPC 603 and follow-on processors which lead to PowerPC G3. In 1997, he joined the IBM's Giga-Processor team where he worked on IBM's Power 4 processor which was used in IBM servers and Apple's G5. Between 1999 and 2003, he was with Intel's Texas Design Center and managed the Chip Implementation team of a high speed next generation Pentium processor. He re-joined IBM in 2003, where he worked on the high speed, multi-core, broad band first-generation CELL processor. Dr. Pham is currently the Sony-Toshiba-IBM Design Center Chief Engineer and Global Convergence Manager.