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VP and Co-GM, Mobile and Communications Group, Intel Corporation

Michael A. Bell is corporate vice president and co-general manager of the Mobile and Communications Group for Intel Corporation.

Bell co-leads, with Hermann Eul, a worldwide organization focused on the development of hardware, software and connectivity ingredients for phones, tablets, Ultrabook and other mobile devices, and complete system solutions.

Prior to joining Intel in 2010, Bell was part of the executive management team at Palm. From 2007 to 2010, he served as senior vice president of product development.

He was responsible for all aspects of product strategy, development and deployment, bringing the Palm Pre, the Palm Pixi and many more products to market. Prior to his time at Palm, Bell was a vice president in the Macintosh Hardware Division at Apple. Over the course of his career at Apple, spanning 1991 to 2007, he made significant contributions to the iMac, Apple TV, and iPhone programs.

Bell's first cellphone was a Motorola StarTac.

Posts With Mike Bell

Intel Says It’s Getting the Hang of Mobile (Video)

Slow start, but speeding up, says Mike Bell.
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Mobile Goes Global

From New York City today and tomorrow, D: Dive Into Mobile puts top execs onstage for their perspective on the global mobile scene.
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Intel Still Nibbling Around the Edges in Mobile

The company announces its dual-core chip, along with a new Egyptian carrier partner, but the big-name wins continue to elude the chipmaker.
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D: Dive Into Mobile Adds Intel’s Bell and Telefónica’s Domingo

Mobile is really going global, and so is our upcoming conference in New York.
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Intel Shows Just How It Plans to Get Into Phones (Video)

In an interview, Intel’s top phone executives talk about the company’s big bet on Android.
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Intel to Detail Its Phone Plans at CES Next Month

The PC chipmaker plans to detail its long-planned move into the Android phone market at next month’s Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
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Intel's Wireless Chip Guru Anand Chandrasekher Leaves

The onetime rising star who ran Intel’s hugely successful Centrino platform last decade couldn’t work the same magic with Atom, which has not yet lived up to expectations.

Former Apple Software Chief Joins Palm Backer Elevation Partners

Add another name to the list of former Apple employees resurfacing at Palm and its chief backer, Elevation Partners. Avie Tevanian, who once served as Apple’s chief software technology officer, has joined Elevation as a managing director.
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Apple CEO to Palm: I'll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine

Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
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Apple CEO to Palm: I’ll Quit Sniffing Your Org Chart if You Quit Sniffing Mine

Apple appears to have a particular affinity for the unwritten no-poaching agreements said to be so popular among the nation’s biggest tech companies. Earlier this summer, the New York Times reported that Apple may have quietly negotiated an agreement with Google not to hire away each other’s top talent. Now, Bloomberg claims that the company attempted to win a similar commitment from Palm, but was rebuffed.
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