What’s AMD’s Technology Strategy for High Performance Market?
Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) has proved itself to be a phoenix that rose from near bankruptcy to become a worthy competitor of Intel (INTC) and NVIDIA (NVDA) in less than five years. At Cowen Technology’s Media & Telecom Conference, AMD’s chief technology officer, Mark Papermaster, talked about the company’s technology strategy to enter the high-performance computing market. A major breakthrough for AMD was the transition to the FinFET (fin-shaped field effect transistor) technology that helped it significantly reduce the process technology gap with its key rival Intel.