AMD to Present at GLOBALFOUNDRIES Global Technology Conference

Chekib Akrout is senior vice president, Technology Group, whose mission is to develop innovative and breakthrough technologies for AMDs next generation products and platforms. He is responsible for managing advanced research and development, long-term technology roadmap, CPU core developments, process & circuit technology, and tools & IP/SoC design methodology. Before joining AMD in 2008, Akrout worked at Freescale Semiconductor as vice president and general manager of the Networking System Division where he focused on networking multi-core and Digital Signal Processing, driving processor competitiveness in the networking markets.