Glenn Hinton is an Intel Fellow, Desktop Platforms Group and Director of IA-32 Microarchitecture Development. He is responsible for the microarchitecture development for the next generation IA-32 design. He was appointed Intel Fellow in January 1999.

Hinton joined Intel as a new college graduate in 1983, after working for two summers as a co-op student. His first full-time position was as a design engineer on the i960® K-series CPU, designing the execution unit.

In 1986, Hinton was one of the two lead microarchitects of the i960 CA which was the first super-scalar microprocessor ever built. By comparison, all modern high-performance processors are super-scalar today. He was one of three senior architects in 1990 for the P6 processor design, which became the Pentium® Pro and Pentium II processors.

Hinton received bachelor's and master's degrees in Electrical Engineering from Brigham Young University in 1982 and 1983, respectively. He was born in Provo, Utah, in January 1957.