John Gustafson joins AMD

[piesquared]

The Wall Street Journal’s Don Clark last night had a nice write-up of that event, and his interview with Papermaster, *in which Papermaster describes AMD’s vision of how speech, gesture, and face recognition technologies will become more and more important. Papermaster described to Clark the “tsunami” of sensing functions that will be all around us

After going through the various innovations in core design of Jaguar, Krewell writes that AMD is in some sense anticipating Intel’s next move in 2013:

The new design may be the most flexible core in AMD’s arsenal—it can be manufactured by multiple foundries and can serve as a quad-core processor for tablets, netbooks, notebooks, desktops, all-in-ones, and nettops […]*Intel is preparing an improved Atom microarchitecture for introduction in 2013; this design is rumored to add OOO execution, bringing better IPC to the Atom line. The new design could also address Atom’s current lack of SSE4, AVX, AES, or virtualization extensions, but we won’t know whether the new Atom can catch Jaguar until we see it. In any case, Jaguar gives AMD a well-featured CPU core that offers foundry flexibility, as well as good performance balanced with quad-core capability and a low-power design that can be reused in any number of SoC designs.

Mr. Gustafson is among the industry’s leaders in parallel computing, which we believe further highlights the long-term roadmap for the company. AMD enticed him away from Intel, (where he didn’t lead their graphics efforts), where he headed its eXtreme Technologies Lab, conducting leading-edge research on energy efficient computing, memory, optical, and storage.*We see the hiring of Gustafson as simply one in a long line of leadership changes at AMD since Rory Read’s appointment as CEO. We believe this methodic upgrade of talent may be the most important contribution Rory has made, as this improving team should set the base for AMD’s long-term growth opportunities.

http://blogs.barrons.com/techtraderdaily/2012/08/30/amd-jaguar-sensors-other-tidbits-from-hot-chips/

 

[Homeles]

Has already been posted in this section: http://forums.anandtech.com/showthread.php?t=2267048

 

[nyker96]

It;s kinda sad that amd is competiting against atom type of cpu now. they should try to come up with a design that rivals ivy or haswell.