Rick Bergman Returns to AMD to Lead Computing & Graphics Business
by Anton Shilov on August 6, 2019 5:00 PM EST
AMD has announced that Rick Bergman had rejoined the company and will lead its Computing and Graphics business. Mr. Bergman’s focus will be high-performance PCs, gaming and semi-custom businesses. The return of the former executive emphasizes importance of gaming for AMD.
Rick Bergman has a long history with GPU companies. In the late nineties he used to work at S3 Graphics and then joined ATI Technologies in 2001, where he served at various positions until 2006, when ATI was bought by AMD. From 2006 to 2011, he led AMD’s products group where he was responsible both for CPUs and GPUs. In 2011, Mr. Bergman joined Synaptics, where he served as CEO until recently and significantly transformed the company.
Among the highlights of Rick Bergman’s career at AMD are the company’s highly-successful Radeon HD 4000 and HD 5000 families of products, the GCN architecture that was used by the company’s GPUs for years, as well as AMD’s ‘Fusion’ program that enabled the company to integrate its GPUs into its CPUs and eventually create high-performance SoCs for Microsoft’s and Sony’s game consoles.
Rick Bergman is the latest addition to AMD’s graphics and gaming team. Last month AMD hired Frank Azor, a former head of Dell’s Alienware division, to head its gaming-related efforts. Meanwhile, Mr. Bergman brings both general management and semiconductor experience.
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intelati - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
Hey, the rebirth of ATI. (I'm kidding)bananaforscale - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
Oof, those artifacts.aryonoco - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
So if the rumours are correct, Lisa Su is off to IBM within 3 months and Rick Bergman will be the new CEO.Interesting times, though I have to say, I'll miss Lisa Su.
oRAirwolf - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
Su bae can't leave. Things are too exciting at AMD.Ironchef3500 - Wednesday, August 14, 2019 - link
+1mickulty - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
She explicitly refuted that very quickly on twitter, just scattergun "journalism" from a less reputable site.willis936 - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
If you think a captain would jump ship at this point in AMD’s story you’re off your rocker. it’s like saying Jensen would leave Nvidia after releasing the 10x0 series.ballsystemlord - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
I'm still hopping he does... :)Jorgp2 - Tuesday, August 6, 2019 - link
I thought IBM didn't like outsidersmdriftmeyer - Wednesday, August 7, 2019 - link
The sheer stupidity of the rumor is astounding. She left IBM for Freescale, then onto AMD as Vice President before later rebuilding AMD as the present CEO and rebuild under her vision.It's right up there with Tim Cook leaving Apple to take lower position at HP because of his time working for Compaq.