Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
— Oct. 28, 2014
— AMD
(NYSE: AMD) today announced that Forrest
Norrod (49) has joined the company as senior
vice president and general manager of AMD’s Enterprise, Embedded
and Semi-Custom (EESC) business group,
reporting to President and CEO Dr.
Lisa Su. Norrod will be responsible for managing all aspects of
strategy, business management, engineering, and sales for
AMD’s EESC business.
He
replaces Dr. Su, who has held the position on an interim basis since
July.
“Forrest is an industry veteran whose
strong track record of establishing and growing businesses
strengthens our leadership team,” said Dr. Su. “Forrest’s
unique combination of engineering, business management and technical
expertise at both the chip and system level make him ideally suited
to lead AMD into an expanded set of markets where our differentiated
technology assets provide a competitive advantage.”
Norrod most recently was vice president and
general manager of Dell’s server business, driving the business to
market share leadership in several key geographies and markets. Prior
to that role, he led the creation of Dell’s first internal startup
focused on the hyper-scale datacenter market as the vice president
and general manager, Data Center Solutions (DCS). Norrod held several
engineering leadership roles previously at Dell, starting as CTO of
Client Products before leading Enterprise Engineering and ultimately
having responsibility for all of Dell’s global engineering teams.
Prior to Dell, he ran the integrated x86 CPU business at Cyrix and
National Semiconductor.
Norrod has a Bachelor of Science and a
Master of Science in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech. He
holds 11 US patents in computer architecture, graphics and system
design. He is based in Austin, Texas.
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AMD
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technology that powers millions of intelligent devices, including
personal computers, tablets, game consoles and cloud servers that
define the new era of surround computing. AMD solutions enable people
everywhere to realize the full potential of their favorite devices
and applications to push the boundaries of what is possible. For more
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