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AMD taps Dell man to lead push into Microservers

by on28 October 2014

Can’t see the wood for the Forrest

AMD has hired a former Dell executive to lead the chipmaker's push into the micro server business.

Forrest Norrod will be senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s enterprise, embedded and semi-custom business group and report to AMD’s Chief Executive Lisa Su.

“Forrest is an industry veteran whose strong track record of establishing and growing businesses strengthens our leadership team,” said Dr. Su. “Forrest’s unique combination of engineering, business management and technical expertise at both the chip and system level make him ideally suited to lead AMD into an expanded set of markets where our differentiated technology assets provide a competitive advantage.”

Before being drafted into AMD Norrod, ran Dell's server business and will be tasked with developing chips for new low-power servers to take on the might of Chipzilla in cutting-edge data centres.

Norrod created Dell's first internal startup focused on the hyper-scale datacentre market and was the vice president and general manager, Data Centre Solutions (DCS).He started at Dell as the CTO of Client Products before leading Enterprise Engineering and ultimately having responsibility for all of Dell's global engineering teams.

Prior to Dell, he ran the integrated x86 CPU business at Cyrix and National Semiconductor.

 

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