Mark Papermaster is senior vice president and chief technology officer for AMD. He is responsible for AMD’s engineering, research and development (R&D) and product development organization. His more than 30 years of engineering experiences includes significant leadership roles managing the development of a wide range of products spanning from low-power handhelds to high-performance blade servers. Before joining AMD, Papermaster was the vice president of the silicon engineering group at Cisco, leading an organization responsible for silicon strategy, architecture, and development for the company’s switching and routing businesses. Prior to Cisco, Papermaster served as vice president of Apple Devices Hardware Engineering, where he was responsible for iPod and iPhone hardware development. He also held a number of senior leadership roles at IBM, serving on the company’s Technical Leadership Team and overseeing development of the company’s key microprocessors and blade server technologies.
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Surround Computing Is About to Change Our Lives
Computing is in upheaval. After 40 years of microprocessor improvement, an even more fundamental advance is underway, with enormous implications for how we will live. We are uniting traditional central processing units (CPUs), the "brains" of computers, with graphics processing units (GPUs) to enable much easier information processing with faster performance and better energy efficiency. In fact, the changes in computing chip architecture underway today may be the most significant since the 1970s. We need this advance. More data will be created in the next three years than in all of human history.
