Suresh Gopalakrishnan was most recently CTO at Freescale Semiconductor, but also once VP of Engineering at Extreme Networks, which was a company specializing in very high speed ethernet switching technology and a hardware scientist at HP’s Integrated Circuits Business Division before that. This could be a great decision by Rory Read to place him at the head of AMDs server business.  With the current focus on the interconnect portion of the server and the push to have multiple low powered CPUs instead of one powerful one it makes sense to put someone with a lot of networking experience in charge of developing the next generation of PileDriver chips.  If AMD is to beat Intel at the interconnect game and fully utilize their newly purchased SeaMicro technology they need someone who has experience getting large amounts of nodes speaking to each other with as little latency as possible.  Read more about Suresh’s new position at AMD over at The Register.

"AMD’s new CEO Rory Read has been shaking things up in the past couple of months while at the same time settling things down – particularly on the Opteron server chip front. To help accomplish both, he’s made a major management move, hiring Suresh Gopalakrishnan to be vice president and general manager of AMD’s server business unit."

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