A View from C-Level

When Fred Weber was about to graduate from Harvard College's physics program in 1985, one of his professors, Ugo Gagliardi, urged him to "call Gordon Bell." Weber, now chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices, quotes Gagliardi as having told him, "Whatever Gordon Bell is doing is what you should be doing." Weber heeded the advice, moving to Bell's startup, Encore. Since then, Weber's career has moved steadily upward as he's leveraged a background in supercomputing techniques into some of the most sophisticated processors in the world--AMD's. He acknowledges, too, that he owes a lot of his view of the world to his work in college in the theater.

1. Introduction to the interview, Brian Fuller, EET editor in chief [ WMV | Real Video ]
2. Give us your take on where the industry is at this point in the cycle [ WMV | Real Video ]
3. Talk a little about how you see the life of 32-bit computing evolving? [ WMV | Real Video ]
4. We're at the dawn, then, of 64-bit computing. What are the applications that will drive? [ WMV | Real Video ]
5. You have a background in supercomputing. What types of concepts out of that space have you brought to 64-bit computing? [ WMV | Real Video ]
6. So for Opteron do you have a roadmap that goes as far as 65nm? [ WMV | Real Video ]
7. At 90nm, some vendors are looking at multicore, multithreading architectures. Is that something you're looking at? [ WMV | Real Video ]
8. Are you looking at optical interconnect? [ WMV | Real Video ]
9. You recently acquired the Geode processor. You're on the record as saying you're not so sure ARM can't be dislodged. Talk about that. [ WMV | Real Video ]
10. Can you make a go of it with Geode where National didn't? [ WMV | Real Video ]
11. From an engineering standpoint, what are you doing with the Geode architecture? [ WMV | Real Video ]
12. Talk to us about how 64-bit computing is changing the workstation landscape. [ WMV | Real Video ]
13. How have you made the transition from scientist to manager? [ WMV | Real Video ]
14. Conclusion to the interview [ WMV | Real Video ]

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