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AMD appoints Donald Newell as server CTO
A CTO for AMD's servers division has been announced by the chip design company, and he is Donald Newell, a former Intel engineer with more than 20 patents filed.
His new job is to oversee the long-term server roadmap, leading worldwide teams and collaborating with other AMD design engineers for new platforms. At Intel Labs he was a senior principal engineer leading the system-on-chip and datacentre networking architecture groups.
Rick Bergman, SVP and general manager of AMD's products group announced the appointment, saying, "Don Newell brings a strong combination of leadership skills, engineering and design expertise, and strategic direction."
He added that Newell is coming onboard prior to the delivery of the company's upcoming "Bulldozer" core that will be used in its Opteron processors planned to hit the market in 2011. No pressure then.
To show how brainy its new servers CTO is AMD added a bewildering array of acronyms to its bio for its new executive. Apparently, he drove the IOAT to market, has published papers on Cache QoS and is a co-author of the IETF RFC2429 that specifies how video is transported over the Internet. We'll take AMD's word for it, but congratulations Don Newell and best of British. µ
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How refreshing - an article sans the "edgy" snarling sarcastic anti everything ('cept Intel of course) attitude.
Thank you thank you thank you.
Keep 'em coming.
Note to all you snarly, carnivorous web weevil commenter wannabees reading this: Time to get off the keyboard and shop for your school supplies 'cause it's time to go back to school.
You wrote: "Sadly he only has over 20 patent filings to his name."
If patent filings had anything to do with it, you should have looked at the number of patents filed by all the people D. Newell supervised.
But, of course, the number of patents is irrelevant. If anything, it is how these patents are monetized through product development and/or licensing.
And given how Intel's R&D has become global, his role in orchestrating the work of R&D centers worldwide, and supporting international collaborations within Intel and with outside organizations (e.g. academia), this is what you want to assess.