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Anyone remotely familiar with NVIDIA knows of their now erstwhile distinguished engineer Thomas A. Petersen, better known simply as Tom Petersen or TAP. He was a delight to work with as far as the tech media is concerned, including TechPowerUp, and was a source of technical information on NVIDIA microarchitectures as well as features targeting the general consumer and prosumer alike. The last few keynote presentations have had a visible lack of Tom on screen, and even in person to where we were discussing internally whether he had taken on a more "behind the scenes" approach at the company. As it turns out, Tom is the latest in line to have attracted the eyes of Intel as the latter gears up to the challenge of gaining marketing share in the discrete GPU business in the years to come.
Tom confirmed on his Facebook page this past Friday that he was indeed leaving NVIDIA, with March 29 being his last working day there. He was quick to note his unemployment status on his LinkedIn profile in a humorous manner as well, and this was surely not for long given news broke shortly from Hothardware, and then Gamers Nexus, who both independently verified from their contacts at Intel that Tom Petersen was headed to the blue team sooner than later. Aside from being a media liaison for technical marketing, he has been at the forefront for the development of tools to help benchmark render response and effectiveness (FCAT), contributed to NVIDIA's GPU BOOST technology directly, and no doubt will be an important contributor at Intel to complement the vast number of PR and media personnel joining their ranks in the recent few months. We are excited to see what Tom helps bring to the table, and wish him the best to help create a more open and competing dGPU market for us.
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Tom confirmed on his Facebook page this past Friday that he was indeed leaving NVIDIA, with March 29 being his last working day there. He was quick to note his unemployment status on his LinkedIn profile in a humorous manner as well, and this was surely not for long given news broke shortly from Hothardware, and then Gamers Nexus, who both independently verified from their contacts at Intel that Tom Petersen was headed to the blue team sooner than later. Aside from being a media liaison for technical marketing, he has been at the forefront for the development of tools to help benchmark render response and effectiveness (FCAT), contributed to NVIDIA's GPU BOOST technology directly, and no doubt will be an important contributor at Intel to complement the vast number of PR and media personnel joining their ranks in the recent few months. We are excited to see what Tom helps bring to the table, and wish him the best to help create a more open and competing dGPU market for us.
View at TechPowerUp Main Site
