Dina McKinney

SVP, Hardware, Processors Group at Cavium Inc

Dina McKinney is Senior Vice President of Hardware for the Processors Business Group at Marvell. In this role, Dina is responsible for the company’s infrastructure processor development and delivering leading-edge technologies for the 5G, data center, enterprise, and automotive markets. She joined Marvell from Cypress (now Infineon) where she was Senior Vice President of Central Design Engineering and led roadmap planning, platform IP development, Central SoC teams, CAD/EDA, IP/SoC design methodologies and IT/Compute. During her tenure, she increased the number of global R&D SoC programs by 30% and improved on-time product development across businesses while reducing OPEX. Prior, Dina was Bay Area Site Lead and a Senior Executive at Qualcomm where she led Snapdragon GPU Engineering for high performance, mid and value tiers. Previous to this, Dina held the position of Corporate Vice President of CPU Processor Design for mobile, desktop and server at AMD. Earlier in her career, she held processor development engineering leadership roles at Alchemy Semiconductor, Motorola, and Digital Equipment Corporation.

Dina is a strong advocate for women in engineering, previously serving as Executive Board Member of the Bay Area Qualcomm Women in Science and Technology, co-founder of AMD’s Women Forum, YWCA, and Board Member of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley. Dina holds a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Central New England College, an M.S. in Electrical Engineering from Worcester Polytechnic Institute, and is a veteran of the USAF.

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