AMD appoints new chief Computing & Graphics division

AMD has appointed Sandeep Chennakeshu as chief executive of its Computing & Graphics division. Chennakeshu previously worked for BlackBerry, Freescale and Sony Ericsson. AMD’s CTO, Mark Papermaster, is now also the company’s executive vice president.

AMD has made several changes at the top of the company. With the appointment of Chennakeshu, AMD once again has a CEO for the Computing & Graphics division, after Jim Anderson left the company in August last year. In the meantime, Saeid Moshkelani took over the duties, he is the chief executive of the Client Compute division.

As executive vice president of the Computing & Graphics division, Sandeep Chennakeshu is responsible for directing AMD’s business units that work on processors and graphics for PCs, and the Semi-Custom business unit, which makes the chips for today’s Xbox One and more. and PlayStation consoles.

AMD also announced that chief technological officer Mark Papermaster will be promoted to executive vice president. He will also remain on as CTO. Forrest Norrod, the senior vice president and general manager of the Datacenter & Embedded Solutions business unit, will now take full responsibility for server products, both CPUs and GPUs. All sales activities will now be led globally by Darren Grasby.