If I may add to the list of possible candidates, Raja Korduri (sp?)
As to BK, he didn't screw up the architecture. IIRC there was a back door for Uncle Sugar, designed into the revisions that the Hyfa group did to trransform Pentium 3 into core. I wouldn't be surprised if the roots to the latest huck up trace a path back.
Feels good to own one of Intel's competitors. Pig, weeds (moon) TM Chipguy.