AMD appoints Donald Njuela as chief technology director for servers

AMD today announced the appointment of Donald Njuela the post of Vice President and Chief Technology Director (CTO) for servers. A prominent engineer with over 20 filed patents, Newell had previously worked as a senior chief engineer, leading teams to develop system-on-Chip (SoC) and datacentar networking architecture in the Intel Labs before joining AMD in the rodmapa server management and program design platform.

As CTO AMD Server, Newell is responsible for defining the concepts and long-term AMD’s server roadmap based on current conditions, expected demand and long-term trends server. He led viÅ¡ebrojne teams around the world and cooperates with other AMD’s teams for the development and design, to ensure a successful transition program from design to market the product. Newell is responsible Rick Bergman, who is a senior vice president and general manager of AMD products group.

Don Newell brings a strong combination of leadership skills, expertise in engineering and design and strategic management, “says Bergman. “We are very fortunate to have Don with us at the moment is preparing to mark the” Bulldozer “core of our AMD Opteron processors, planned for launch in 2011.”

During 16 years of work in the Intel-in, Newell led the development as a SoC, and server platform architectural innovations in various fields, all of Claudia-computing, and to various mobile devices. Newell has also initiated and led the I / O Akceleraracisku Technology (IOAT) from initial research through to final implementation, develop a detailed architecture for heterogeneous computing and was responsible for the appearance of the first PC digital TV receiver.

He led his team in the publication of original papers in areas such as, QoS cache and processing of network protocols. Newell has been published in more than 60 peer-reviewed research journals and publications and coauthor of IETF RFC2429, which specifies how to transmit video over the Internet. Prior to joining Intel, he was a software engineer at the beginning of a later Datanex Software for Sequent Computers. Newell his undergraduate degree earned at the University of Oregon.