Friday, September 23rd 2011
AMD Announces Executive Changes
AMD (NYSE:AMD) today announced that Rick Bergman is leaving AMD. President and CEO Rory Read will serve as interim general manager of AMD's Products Group. AMD also announced that Paul Struhsaker, 49, has joined the company to lead AMD's newly-formed commercial business division as the corporate vice president and general manager, Commercial Business Division.
Struhsaker will oversee product management and roadmap planning for AMD's server, high performance computing and embedded products. He joins AMD from Comcast, where he was senior vice president of engineering responsible for all set-top box platforms and video server applications for the Comcast Video Networks.
"The commercial market is vitally important for AMD and the addition of Paul to our team demonstrates our commitment to profitably grow our server business," said Read. "Paul brings an extensive business management background and customer perspective on AMD's commercial business opportunities. I look forward to working with Paul to help drive the growth plans for this exciting part of our business.
"I want to thank Rick for his many contributions to AMD and wish him well in his future endeavors."
Struhsaker comes to AMD with more than 27 years of experience in ASIC/FPGA development, software and digital communications systems engineering. Prior to Comcast, Struhsaker was vice president of Silicon Technologies at Motorola where he helped lead development of all handset, modem/stack and application processor platforms. Struhsaker was also chief technology officer for Texas Instruments' Broadband Business Unit. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Akron and has been awarded more than 25 patents.
Struhsaker will oversee product management and roadmap planning for AMD's server, high performance computing and embedded products. He joins AMD from Comcast, where he was senior vice president of engineering responsible for all set-top box platforms and video server applications for the Comcast Video Networks.
"The commercial market is vitally important for AMD and the addition of Paul to our team demonstrates our commitment to profitably grow our server business," said Read. "Paul brings an extensive business management background and customer perspective on AMD's commercial business opportunities. I look forward to working with Paul to help drive the growth plans for this exciting part of our business.
"I want to thank Rick for his many contributions to AMD and wish him well in his future endeavors."
Struhsaker comes to AMD with more than 27 years of experience in ASIC/FPGA development, software and digital communications systems engineering. Prior to Comcast, Struhsaker was vice president of Silicon Technologies at Motorola where he helped lead development of all handset, modem/stack and application processor platforms. Struhsaker was also chief technology officer for Texas Instruments' Broadband Business Unit. He holds a master's degree in electrical engineering from Johns Hopkins University and a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from the University of Akron and has been awarded more than 25 patents.
33 Comments on AMD Announces Executive Changes
Years ago AMD was a small fledgling company. They had a group of engineers that were talented but just didn't have the R&D that Intel did. However they had passion. I mean such passion for making CPU's that it was almost biblical. So one day the engineers decided that they needed to do something drastic. Something that could save their jobs and change the industry forever. They had to take down that 300 lbs gorilla in the room. They needed to beat Intel at making a CPU's!
But how? How could David defeat Goliath in a field of sand and not a single rock for miles? HOW!?! Well one late night after gallons of coffee and a game mind of numbing LAN tetris it hit them. They needed to make a deal with the devil. I don't mean metaphorically. I mean literally. Well they did and now the devil has come to collect. Apparently the cost of beating the Pentium 4 all those years ago was the souls of all the CEO's AMD will ever have.
That is the only logical explanation at this point.
On a side note, it's funny to see that the Intel trolls think that any thread that mentions AMD should turn in to a Bulldozer bash fest.
:banghead:
AMD just needs an "Altivec" to buy them time on the CPU front. Something that can bring them up past Intel's level on CPU performance even if it can only be implemented via pro software apps. If you can't design the entire thing better, focus on a part you can.
Rory Read see's him as Old Guard from the Stuff Shirt Peacock parade that AMD had become...
While I'm sure Rick Bergman was jaded that he didn't get the top spot, that's ok he's not bad-off (in all probability) just had to wait this long to collect his package.
Moving on...
Larrabee's gone... but we know that there's their white "Knights around the Corner”
www.zdnet.co.uk/news/infrastructure/2011/09/23/intels-knights-corner-to-debut-in-texas-supercomputer-40094015/
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_MIC
As the APUs get competitive with mid-range CPU/GPU setups, at attractive prices, or competitive with high-end CPU/GPU setups, again at attractive prices, Intel will have some real competition again. Mark my words. Intel simply can't catch this up, no way. Not in 10 years anyway.
:wtf:
A CPU/GPU hybrid needs to allocate TDP to both of its portions, and at least in current form factors has more limited cooling than dedicated GPUs can afford. So unless the GPU part can match the performance of a 300W GPU while only having a TDP of 200W, the CPU is shipped with some impressive cooling, and it also has a gigantic memory bus, it won't match a high-end GPU/CPU system. Since none of these options is likely, I highly doubt the APU will match a high-end GPU/CPU system.
Of course you make a very valid point with the RAM bandwidth. Quad-DDR 3 is good for maybe 75GB/s while a single GTX 580 makes 192GB/s.