Graphics Industry Leaders Mike Rayfield and David Wang Join AMD
January 23 2018 - 4:05PM
AMD (NASDAQ:AMD) today announced the appointment of Mike Rayfield
as senior vice president and general manager of AMD Radeon
Technologies Group (RTG), and David Wang as senior vice president
of engineering for RTG. Both will report to President and CEO Dr.
Lisa Su. Rayfield will be responsible for all aspects of strategy
and business management for AMD’s graphics business including
consumer graphics, professional graphics, and semi-custom products.
Wang will be responsible for all aspects of graphics engineering,
including the technical strategy, architecture, hardware, and
software for AMD graphics products and technologies.
“Mike and David are industry leaders who bring proven track
records of delivering profitable business growth and leadership
product roadmaps,” said AMD President and CEO Dr. Lisa Su. “We
enter 2018 with incredible momentum for our graphics business based
on the full set of GPU products we introduced last year for the
consumer, professional, and machine learning markets. Under Mike
and David’s leadership, I am confident we will continue to grow the
footprint of Radeon across the gaming, immersive, and GPU compute
markets.”
Rayfield brings to AMD more than 30 years of technology industry
experience focused on growth, building deep customer relationships,
and driving results. Rayfield joins AMD from Micron Technology,
where he was senior vice president and general manager of the
Mobile Business Unit. Under Rayfield’s leadership, Micron’s mobile
business achieved significant revenue growth and improved
profitability. Prior to Micron, Rayfield served as general manager
of the Mobile Business Unit at Nvidia, where he led the team that
created Tegra.
With more than 25 years of graphics and silicon development
experience, Wang brings deep technical expertise and an excellent
track record in managing complex silicon development to AMD. Wang
rejoins AMD from Synaptics, where he was senior vice president of
Systems Silicon Engineering responsible for silicon systems
development of Synaptics products. Under Wang’s leadership,
Synaptics more than quadrupled its design team through acquisition
and organic growth. Prior to joining Synaptics, Wang was corporate
vice president at AMD, responsible for SOC development of AMD
processor products, including GPUs, CPUs, and APUs. Previously,
Wang held various technical and management positions at ATI, ArtX,
SGI, Axil Workstations, and LSI Logic.
About AMDFor more than 45 years, AMD has driven
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visualization technologies ― the building blocks for gaming,
immersive platforms, and the datacenter. Hundreds of millions of
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Contact:Drew PrairieAMD
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