Tom Dunlap

F. Thomas Dunlap will retire at the end of the year and that D. Bruce Sewell will succeed him, overseeing all Intel legal matters and serving as the company's top legal adviser. Sewell's appointment as general counsel is effective Nov. 1. Dunlap, 53, joined Intel in 1974 as a product engineer and has served as the company's chief legal officer since 1983. Dunlap was a key contributor responsible for obtaining passage of a number of pieces of legislation important to the chip industry including the Chip Protection Act of 1984, a law which protects chip design layouts, and the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. He also oversaw the Intel/NEC litigation which established that microcode (a computer program embedded on a piece of silicon) can be protected under federal copyright law.