Tuesday, August 8th 2023
Robert Hallock Joins Intel
Ex AMD Director of Technical Marketing Robert Hallock has joined Intel as Senior Director of Technical Marketing after a sabbatical. During his sabbatical, Hallock ran his own company that focused on aftermarket car mods. Hallock had a 12 year tenure at AMD and was the face of many of AMD's more technical videos and also took part in some keynote product instructions when it came to the more technical details of product introductions.
According to a post by Hallock on LinkedIn, his new position will apparently focus on AI for consumer processors, something that ties in with what Intel is about to announce at Intel Innovation 2023. As such, we might be seeing Hallock doing some of the presentations at Intel Innovation 2023 in September. Hallocks post on LinkedIn talks about AI accelerators, again suggesting that he will be mainly involved with the ex Movidius team, but as he mentions client computing, his responsibility might still extend outside of just the AI side of things. Time will tell if he gets a similar role at Intel as he had at AMD, or if he'll just be one of many directors at the company.
Sources:
Robert Hallock on LinkedIn, via @SquashBionic on X
According to a post by Hallock on LinkedIn, his new position will apparently focus on AI for consumer processors, something that ties in with what Intel is about to announce at Intel Innovation 2023. As such, we might be seeing Hallock doing some of the presentations at Intel Innovation 2023 in September. Hallocks post on LinkedIn talks about AI accelerators, again suggesting that he will be mainly involved with the ex Movidius team, but as he mentions client computing, his responsibility might still extend outside of just the AI side of things. Time will tell if he gets a similar role at Intel as he had at AMD, or if he'll just be one of many directors at the company.
28 Comments on Robert Hallock Joins Intel
Not sure it will change anything about the course Intel has set.
Nothing personal against the fellow, he is a press guy and that's basically his job but... in this blue edition I hope his new job is more inspiring than being the company's lie factory as it was with AMD.
he has no business being at Intel, send him back
Hallock will be a good addition to Intel.
Next "great moment" was Zen3 launch where he told everyone that there is no chance for Zen3 CPUs on 300-series chipset AM4 boards and then after 18 months, happy as a horny schoolboy, gave announcement that Zen3 is finally coming to 300 boards, that 18-month "evaluation" has been successful. That was enormous pile of horse$it as we all saw how Zen3 worked on some Gigabyte and ASRock 300 boards with no problems, few days after launch.
Like Raja K., good riddance Robert.
The reason Raja was made a boogeyman isn't because he or his team's incompetent, it's that Nvidia's team was more successful, GeForce started to take off and from there on out things haven't always smiled at AMD.
It is very different being and engineer and a team leader. A simple example why Jim Keller is a prime example of a leader and success and he is not.
oh well ... marketing? eh? ... AI? well, all the best to him, let's hope the grass is greene... ah... Intel, not Nvidia, aherm, bluer on the other side ...
www.anandtech.com/show/947/18
"Yhea so people higher than me in the company hierarchy decided to not support those chipset but I think that it's a load of bullshit"
Marketing lead somehow not getting fired for making an official statement that doesn't align with the company decision.