Over the past year or so, AMD has relied on the new Zen CPU architecture to fully impact Intel in various markets such as desktops, notebooks, and enterprise data centers. As the main research and development of the Zen architecture, Mike Clark has just been promoted by AMD as Corporate Fellow.
This is also the highest honor AMD has set up for technicians.
Speaking of Zen architecture design, you will definitely think of Jim Keller first. He used to be the chief architect of AMD processor. He is widely regarded as the father of Zen architecture. The K7/K8 architecture in his early years was also his dominant design.
However, when the Zen architecture was basically finalized in 2015, Jim Keller left, first went to Tesla, and now joined Intel.
Mike Clark has been working at AMD for 25 years and has been responsible for engineering design for a long time. After Jim Keller left, he took over the burden of AMD's chief architects, including Ryzen Ruilong, EPYC Xiaolong and other Zen architecture products. Completed under his command.
With modern high-performance processors so complicated, it is obviously impossible for Zen architecture to be completed by one person. Mike Clark must also play a vital role. Zen 5 was also actively exposed by him.
Of course, the contribution of the two of them is even worse, but Mike Clark is definitely a great feat, otherwise he won't get such a high reward from AMD.
AMD's evaluation is as follows: 'Clark is promoted to AMD Enterprise Fellow, thanks to his outstanding leadership in CPU core architecture development, especially the Zen architecture. Clark will continue to be responsible for the overall CPU core strategy, design and roadmap.
Mike Clark
At the same time, AMD also upgraded two other executives. Darren Grasby was promoted to Senior Vice President of Global Computing and Graphics Sales and President of EMEA (European Middle East and Africa).
Darren Grasby joined AMD in 2007 and has held various management positions, Ryzen, Radeon and previous generations of processors. The global sales of graphics products are his leading.
Darren Grasby
Robert Gama is promoted to Senior Vice President and Chief Human Resources Officer at AMD Responsible for AMD's global human resources management. He has joined AMD for five years and has contributed a lot to human resources management organizations.
Robert Gama
