From CRN: The head of AMD’s influential research group is departing the chip designer 15 years after founding the division that has made crucial contributions in areas like AI, high-performance computing and advanced memory.
Alan Lee, the head of AMD Research, announced Friday on LinkedIn that he has decided to “move on” from the Santa Clara, California-based company, where his group “created a large number of new technologies for the good of AMD, the compute ecosystem and humankind.”
It’s not known if AMD has named a successor to lead AMD Research. Lee and AMD spokespeople did not respond to requests for comment.
Lee’s departure is among a handful of recent executive changes at AMD. On Tuesday, the chip designer announced that Jack Huynh, the leader of AMD’s Semi-Custom business group, is taking over the PC chip business, the Computing and Graphics group, from Rick Bergman, who is retiring.
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