Graphics Industry Leaders Mike Rayfield and David Wang Join AMD

[Dark Kaeser]

: AMD) today announced the appointment of Mike Rayfield as senior vice president and general manager of AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), and David Wang as senior vice president of engineering for RTG. Both will report to President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. Rayfield will be responsible for all aspects of strategy and business management for AMD's graphics business including consumer graphics, professional graphics, and semi-custom products. Wang will be responsible for all aspects of graphics engineering, including the technical strategy, architecture, hardware, and software for AMD graphics products and technologies.

Rayfield brings to AMD more than 30 years of technology industry experience focused on growth, building deep customer relationships, and driving results. Rayfield joins AMD from Micron Technology, where he was senior vice president and general manager of the Mobile Business Unit. Under Rayfield's leadership, Micron's mobile business achieved significant revenue growth and improved profitability. Prior to Micron, Rayfield served as general manager of the Mobile Business Unit at Nvidia, where he led the team that created Tegra.

Wang rejoins AMD from Synaptics, where he was senior vice president of Systems Silicon Engineering responsible for silicon systems development of Synaptics products. Under Wang's leadership, Synaptics more than quadrupled its design team through acquisition and organic growth. Prior to joining Synaptics, Wang was corporate vice president at AMD responsible for SOC development of AMD processor products, including GPUs, CPUs, and APUs. Previously, Wang held various technical and management positions at ATI, ArtX, SGI, Axil Workstations, and LSI Logic.

http://www.amd.com/en-us/press-releases/Pages/graphics-industry-leaders-2018jan23.aspx


AMD Reassembles the Radeon Technolgies Group: New Leadership Hired & Semi-Custom Folded into RTG

First off then, let’s talk about the engineering side. The new head of RTG’s engineering efforts (and arguably the de-facto successor to Raja) will be David Wang. Wang is a name that some long-time followers may be familiar with, as until earlier this decade he was a long-term AMD employee that rose through the ranks to become a Corporate Vice President of AMD’s GPU and SoC efforts. And as you might expect for someone hired for AMD’s top GPU engineering post, Wang has a long history in the graphics industry, working for SGI before joining ArtX and going through the ArtX-to-ATI-to-AMD acquisition chain. Specific to his experience at AMD, Wang has worked on every AMD GPU between the R300 and the Southern Islands (GCN 1.0) family, so he’s seen the full spectrum over at AMD.

David Wang’s counterpart on the business side of matters will be Mike Rayfield, who is being tapped to serve as the Senior VP and the General Manager of the business group.

AMD Semi-Custom Folded Into RTG

Meanwhile along with overseeing the traditional business aspects of the GPU group, Rayfield is also inheriting a second job, overseeing AMD’s semi-custom business unit. Previously a part of the Enterprise & Embedded unit, semi-custom is being moved under the business side of RTG, putting it under Rayfield’s control. This reorganization, in turn, will see the Enterprise & Embedded unit separated from semi-custom to become the new Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Business Group, which will continue to be operated by SVP and GM Forrest Norrod.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/12363/amd-reassembles-rtg-hires-new-leadership

 

[miguelbazil]

Uma dúvida, como não estou familiarizado com a estrutura corporativa da AMD, eles vão mexer apenas no lado dos GPU's? Ou vão ter impacto em toda a empresa?

De qualquer forma, têm uma quantidade de experiência enorme, é bom para a AMD. Agora só precisam de uma equipa de policiamento no contacto com o público

 

[Dark Kaeser]

Sim apenas afecta o Radeon technologies Group, é para preencher a saída do Raja Koduri, que era o Jefe.
Neste caso optaram por dividir o cargo, a parte de desenvolvimento propriamente dita é para o Wang (é um regresso à AMD) o Rayfield fica com a parte mais de negócio (parcerias, etc).

 

[Dark Kaeser]

A despropósito de um ano do Zen, foi postado um vídeo no canal da AMD com o John Taylor (Chief Marketing Officer), e 2 elementos da equipa de desenvolvimento, Suzanne Plummer, Mike Clark, James Prior (Product Manager) and Christina Iron (Director, Global Campaigns), e do qual a maioria apenas ouviu a parte do "ZEN 5" do Mike Clark, mas as declarações mais interessantes foram as que passaram ao lado de muitos, da Suzanne Plummer, à época quem liderava a equipa de engenharia do ZEN, e que agora tem outro cargo: Corporate Vice President of RTG

“A lot of what we did in Zen was trying to push well beyond what we thought we could do,” says Plummer, “and I think that is something we’re trying to do in the graphics space as well to make a bigger leap forward.

“We’ve pulled in some of the expertise from the microprocessor cores team into the graphics team, kinda helping with our methodology, and improving our frequency and our performance and power. And just taking the best that we have already developed in-house and trying to make sure that we’re using the same improvements across the company.”

https://www.pcgamesn.com/amd-zen-next-gen-radeon-graphics

3:00 do vídeo

 

[Dark Kaeser]

Hmmm...

Intel's Martin Ashton moves over to become CVP at AMD

Until this weekend Ashton was (takes a breath) Vice President, Core and Visual Computing Group, Chief Engineer, VTT and Director of Hardware and Co-Director of Architecture, VPG at Intel.

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he now lists his position simply as a Corporate Vice President at AMD, Santa Clara, California.
Martin Ashton's career at Intel has been quite brief. Despite the triple job title, Ashton only worked there one year and nine months. The most significant part of Ashton's long career in the computer industry was over here in the UK, at Imagination Technologies, until December 2016.
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At IMG, Ashton's final role was as Executive Vice President of PowerVR Multimedia IP but on his own LinkedIn page he prefers the title EVP of Engineering PowerVR. In over 25 years at Imagination Technologies (he joined when it was called VideoLogic) he was, as you might expect, "instrumental in developing PowerVR graphics technology," according to aBloomberg biography.

http://hexus.net/business/news/corporate/119954-intels-martin-ashton-moves-become-cvp-amd/

 

[Dark Kaeser]

O Mike Rayfield já saiu, entretanto a AMD fez umas aquisições e promoções.

• AMD will unify all sales operations under Darren Grasby, senior vice president and chief sales officer. Grasby will now lead the global sales and go-to-market activities across all product lines, channels and regions. Previously, Grasby was responsible for worldwide sales to PC manufacturers and channel partners.

• AMD has hired industry veteran Sandeep Chennakeshu into a new position as executive vice president of Computing and Graphics responsible for the company’s high-performance PC, gaming and semi-custom businesses. Chennakeshu brings extensive semiconductor experience, a deep technology understanding from a systems and software perspective, and extensive general management experience. He has spent the last 30 years serving in multiple senior engineering and executive roles at Ericsson, Freescale, Sony and Blackberry.

• As the datacenter business continues to grow in importance for AMD, Forrest Norrod, senior vice president and general manager, Datacenter and Embedded Solutions Group, will now have responsibility for all AMD datacenter products across both CPUs and GPUs.

• AMD is promoting Mark Papermaster to executive vice president and CTO in recognition of his leadership in driving the technology vision and roadmap execution of the company.

https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2019-01-25-amd-strengthens-senior-leadership-team

Today AMD is announcing some realignment of its executive team along with some promotions. The idea behind the changes boils down to AMD wanting to focus its efforts on bringing the CPU and GPU strategy together, for future AMD+AMD combinations. The goal is that users should want to pair Ryzen with Radeon, or EPYC with Instinct, and by aligning the hierarchy behind that goal, it should be easier to manage and achieve.

https://www.anandtech.com/show/1390...omotions?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social

 

[Dark Kaeser]

Para não abrir outro

AMD Strengthens Senior Leadership Team

AMD announced four senior vice president promotions:

• Nazar Zaidi to senior vice president of Cores, Server SoC and Systems IP Engineering with continued responsibility for leading the development of leadership CPU cores, server SoCs and system IP.
• Andrej Zdravkovic to senior vice president of Software Development, leading the teams responsible for all aspects of AMD software strategy and development across AMD graphics, client and data center products.
• Spencer Pan to senior vice president of Greater China Sales and president of AMD Greater China, with responsibility for leading all sales and go-to-market activities for AMD in Greater China and expansion of strategic partner and customer relationships in the region.
• Jane Roney to senior vice president of Business Operations, responsible for aligning and scaling critical business processes across the company to support growth and help ensure consistent execution.

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AMD also announced it has hired industry veteran Daniel (Dan) McNamara as senior vice president and general manager, Server Business Unit. McNamara is responsible for building on the successful introduction of the 2nd Gen AMD EPYC™ processors to further accelerate adoption of the company’s high-performance server solutions with cloud, enterprise and ecosystem partners. McNamara combines extensive semiconductor and enterprise expertise, consistent engineering execution and a proven track record of successfully driving growth in the data center market. Most recently, he was senior vice president and general manager of Intel’s Network and Custom Logic Group. Throughout his 27-year career he has also held senior management and engineering roles at Altera, StarGen, SemiTech Solutions and Raytheon.

https://www.amd.com/en/press-releases/2020-01-16-amd-strengthens-senior-leadership-team

 

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AMD Hires IBM Power9 Dev Lead To Work On CPU-GPU Integration

AMD has hired former IBM Power development lead Joshua Friedrich to work on the chipmaker's CPU-GPU integration efforts for both the data center and client sides of the house.

AMD spokesperson Drew Prairie confirmed to CRN Friday that Friedrich joined the company as a corporate vice president in January...
...Friedrich, who had worked on IBM's Power server processors for more than 20 years, is working under AMD CTO Mark Papermaster in the chipmaker's engineering organization and is "responsible for driving [the company's] integrated CPU and GPU technology approach," according to Prairie.

https://www.crn.com/news/components...k-on-cpu-gpu-integration#.XiIwdMfm4mo.twitter

 

[Dark Kaeser]

Aparentemente o Dan McNamara resolveu ir buscar alguém à sua anterior equipa

AMD Hires Intel Data Center Vet To Grow EPYC’s Cloud Business​

The Santa Clara, Calif.-based company confirmed to CRN that it hired Lynn Comp (pictured), a 22-year Intel veteran, as corporate vice president of the Cloud Business Group. She will report to Dan McNamara, another Intel veteran who has been leading AMD’s Server Business Unit since the beginning of 2020.

Most recently, Comp was a vice president within Intel’s Data Platforms Group and general manager of the Visual Infrastructure Unit, where she “pioneered and incubated” the first discrete GPU for data centers using Intel’s Xe architecture, according to her LinkedIn profile. Her responsibilities included working with content delivery network and over-the-top media providers on video delivery, cloud graphics and media processing.

https://www.crn.com/news/components...vet-to-grow-epyc-s-cloud-business?itc=refresh