AMD has announced the appointment of five new Corporate Fellows
AMD has announced the appointment of five technical leaders as AMD Corporate Fellows. These individuals, hailing from various fields such as graphics architecture and advanced packaging, have been recognized for their contributions to semiconductor innovation. The title of AMD Corporate Fellow is the highest honor bestowed upon innovative AMD achievers, and appointments undergo a rigorous review process. This process not only evaluates specific technical contributions to the company but also assesses participation in the industry, mentorship, and long-term strategic positioning for the company.
- David Blythe: A widely respected graphics architect with over three decades of industry experience. Blythe joined AMD in November 2022 after spending 13 years at Intel, most recently as its lead GPU architect. He architected several of the industry’s most consequential graphics APIs for PCs, clients, workstations and mobile phones, including DirectX® 10 and 11 and OpenGL® ES™.
- Nathan Kalyanasundharam: A modular design and interconnect expert who led the architecture and design of AMD Infinity Fabric™. With AMD for more than 20 years, Kalyanasundharam is a board member for the CXL™ and UCIe™ consortiums. He also played an integral role as a coherent interconnect architect for the Frontier supercomputer, which is currently the world’s fastest supercomputer and the industry’s first exascale supercomputer.
- Suresh Ramalingam: An accomplished leader in heterogeneous integrations and advanced packaging techniques. With Xilinx for nearly 20 years, Ramalingam has over two decades of cross-sector experience and holds 40 patents. He is currently focused on 2.5D and 3D packaging technology for next-generation AMD products.
- Ben Sander: A 28-year AMD veteran with technical knowledge in various subjects from architectures to machine learning, Sander is focused on software performance and advanced architecture. In addition to developing the architecture for AMD Opteron™ CPUs, he co-founded the Radeon Open Compute (ROCm™) project, an open software platform allowing researchers to tap the power of AMD Instinct™ accelerators to drive scientific discoveries.
- Ralph Wittig: A computer architect with Xilinx for more than 25 years. Having led the R&D work that formed the foundation for the company’s inference processor fabric AI Engines and machine learning software flow Vitis™ AI, Wittig is an AI and Machine Learning expert. He is actively involved in the semiconductor industry, serving as a steering committee member for Hot Chips and a guest editor at IEEE Micro.
The newly appointed five technical individuals are of noteworthy mention as there are currently only 13 engineers at AMD who hold this title.
