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I had to look up "peripatetic". Thanks for the English lesson. It's not the size ...
Papermaster joins AMD
10/19/2011 10:41 AM EDT
The peripatetic Mark Papermaster has landed again, this time at AMD.
AMD said Wednesday (Oct. 19) that Papermaster has been named chief technology officer along with the title senior vice president. He will oversee AMD’s new Technology and Engineering Group, which includes the chip maker’s R&D and product development activities.
The chip industry veteran assumes his latest post on Oct. 24.
Papermaster, 50, has worked for IBM, Apple, where he stayed only 16 months, and, most recently, Cisco Systems. He oversaw silicon engineering at Cisco, including the company’s switching and routing businesses.
AMD said Papermaster will be responsible for “establishing and executing the company’s technology and product roadmaps, integrated hardware and software development and overseeing the creation of all of AMD’s products.”
Papermaster will report to AMD CEO Rory Read.
Chekib Akrout, who currently heads AMD’s advanced R&D team, will report to Papermaster. However, AMD said Akrout would continue to lead its processor core development and SoC design activities.
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elwood
10/19/2011 11:01 AM EDT
Flighty, n'er do well, with a penchant for pissing off the establishment. Papermaster will fit in quite well!
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goafrit
10/19/2011 1:21 PM EDT
AMD has been looking for solutions. Hope this does the magic. Most times, it may not be the people at the top, it might be the engineers at the bottom they need.
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chipmonk
10/19/2011 7:43 PM EDT
Note that now both the CEO and CTO of AMD are ex IBM ers.
Ever since salesman Sanders days, AMD has been a me-too intellectual dwarf that has depended heavily on IBM and ex IBMers as a crutch - for design ( multi-core processors ) as well as Fabs. Just as AMD Fabs used to look up to IBM Fabs for new nodes, successor Glo Fo still turns on the words of wisdom from IBM - and gets burned " HK Gate first per Meyerson's Mantra at 32 nm then lack of scalability at 28 nm forced them to flip flop to Gate last that Intel had pioneered and had in prod since '07 ). Would be interseting to find out how Glo Fo does w/ its VP R&D hired from failure Moto / Freescale in spite of the $ 1.6 billion in subsidy they have wangled from the taxpayers of NY state.
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mike655mm
10/20/2011 7:51 PM EDT
ex-CEO Dirk Meyer who brought new life to AMD with his design expertise was ex-DEC.
ex-CEO Hector Ruiz was ex-Motorola
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GroovyGeek
10/20/2011 1:49 AM EDT
Not to hijack the discussion, but why is IBM still in the semi business?
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pinhead
10/20/2011 2:01 PM EDT
I think IBM would love to exit the Semi business, but to this point, I don't think they've found a good exit strategy.
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seaEE
10/22/2011 2:44 PM EDT
Maybe IBM is the Linear Tech of digital. ;)
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larkforsure
10/21/2011 8:13 AM EDT
[ SOS ] Complaint about Human Rights Violations by IBM China on Centennial
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fergie65
10/22/2011 12:39 PM EDT
I had to look up "peripatetic". Thanks for the English lesson. It's not the size of the dog in the fight, it's the size of the fight in the dog. Mark is a strong guy. The board obviously felt through the personnel exits they made, that the previous direction was wrong. AMD needs strong. Challenging conventional thinking. I believe the computing industry benefits from AMD rising up again. Here's hoping.
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