Wednesday, October 19th 2011
AMD Appoints Mark Papermaster as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
AMD (NYSE: AMD) announced today that Mark Papermaster, 50, has joined as the company's senior vice president and chief technology officer. He will report to President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read and will oversee all of AMD's engineering, research and development (R&D), and product development functions as the head of the newly-formed Technology and Engineering Group. Papermaster, who was most recently vice president of Silicon Engineering at Cisco, 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.
The advanced research and development team led by Senior Vice President of Research and Development Chekib Akrout, as well as the engineering teams residing in AMD's Products Group, will now report to Papermaster. Akrout, 53, will maintain responsibility for leading AMD's processor core development as well as system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology. In recognition of his ongoing technical and management contributions, Akrout will continue serving on AMD's senior leadership team responsible for key decision making and strategy setting.
"Mark's appointment significantly strengthens AMD's senior leadership," Read said. "Mark has held substantial engineering roles for three of the technology industry's most innovative companies. He is a proven winner who knows the industry, knows our customers and flat out knows technology.
"The newly-created technology and engineering group aligns all of AMD's outstanding technical talent into a centralized team which will improve our time-to-market and help lift our execution across the board. Most importantly, this new organization accelerates our ability to consistently deliver on our customer commitments and help our customers win."
At Cisco, Papermaster was responsible for the silicon strategy, architecture, and development for the company's switching and routing businesses. Prior to Cisco, Papermaster served as Apple's senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering responsible for the iPod and iPhone hardware development. He has also held a number of senior leadership roles at IBM, serving on the company's Technical Leadership Team and overseeing development of key microprocessors and blade server technologies.
Papermaster has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in electrical engineering from The University of Vermont. He is a member of the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation IT Advisory Committee. Papermaster will be based in Sunnyvale, California.
The advanced research and development team led by Senior Vice President of Research and Development Chekib Akrout, as well as the engineering teams residing in AMD's Products Group, will now report to Papermaster. Akrout, 53, will maintain responsibility for leading AMD's processor core development as well as system-on-a-chip (SoC) design methodology. In recognition of his ongoing technical and management contributions, Akrout will continue serving on AMD's senior leadership team responsible for key decision making and strategy setting.
"Mark's appointment significantly strengthens AMD's senior leadership," Read said. "Mark has held substantial engineering roles for three of the technology industry's most innovative companies. He is a proven winner who knows the industry, knows our customers and flat out knows technology.
"The newly-created technology and engineering group aligns all of AMD's outstanding technical talent into a centralized team which will improve our time-to-market and help lift our execution across the board. Most importantly, this new organization accelerates our ability to consistently deliver on our customer commitments and help our customers win."
At Cisco, Papermaster was responsible for the silicon strategy, architecture, and development for the company's switching and routing businesses. Prior to Cisco, Papermaster served as Apple's senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering responsible for the iPod and iPhone hardware development. He has also held a number of senior leadership roles at IBM, serving on the company's Technical Leadership Team and overseeing development of key microprocessors and blade server technologies.
Papermaster has a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from The University of Texas at Austin and a master's degree in electrical engineering from The University of Vermont. He is a member of the University of Texas Cockrell School of Engineering Advisory Board and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation IT Advisory Committee. Papermaster will be based in Sunnyvale, California.
27 Comments on AMD Appoints Mark Papermaster as Senior Vice President and Chief Technology Officer
i propose them to appoint Mr. Piledriver Netburst better ..joking time
Heard of Post Master, Drill Master, Dosa Master, Kung fu Master hmm never Papermaster :roll::roll::roll::roll:
...ok back to silly again.
Haha, the Papermaster reports to Read. I'm gonna nickname him the Readmaster. They'll be the dynamic duo of AMD!!
The IRONY Is so beyond EPIC.....
He was involved with development with the iPad and iPhone, that's pretty good on my book. What the iPad and iPhone did was literally improve and improve.
So Mark Papermaster should be able to maybe turn around the development team, and TELL THEM TO RELEASE CHIP'S THAT ARE VIABLE IMPROVEMENTS AND NOT SIDE GRADES WITH BULLSHIT MARKETING.
(They still might fail badly if they continue to use SoC system)
But the irony in his name is Beyond Epic...... Papermaster....
I Bet people made fun of him, MARK "IT" PAPERMASTER
^^^ See what I did ther!!!! ^^^
He fits the job description well. :laugh::nutkick:
Once again, and again, if it wasn't for the AMD Athlon 64, we would probably be playing with Pentium 4's on crack right now running at 8GHz+ :laugh:
Same with multiple cores. Eventually we would have gotten there but without AMD around, Intel has no motivation to make good products.
Not just Intel, any 800lb Gorilla needs a little monkey with a pointy poop stick to prod them along. Otherwise they'd just get fat, sitting around doing nothing but eatin and matin. Then next thing you know they are sitting on an enormous surplus and the urge to roll over and innovate vanishes. Oops, inside Apple joke :D
But that aside, regardless of AMD's problems with competing with Intel, having them around is a good thing for cpu innovation, in general. I agree with you there.
Which presupposes a couple of points:
1. Globalfoundries can actually produce a "shit load" of Bulldozer CPU's in a time frame acceptable to OEM's, and..
2. AMD and successful marketing are as synonymous as Tahiti and alpine skiing. This is, after all a company that marketed it's top-of-the-line desktop CPU's using a comic book.
AMD's the one which lead the industry to 64-Bit, Multi-Core Desktop CPU's, stuck with DDR and so on. Intel didn't want to go that route, but had no choice because the Industry followed AMD, not Intel.
Intel can afford mistakes, AMD cannot, which is why they must find the monster within Bulldozer and let it loose.