The Role of Accelerated Computing in the Multi Core Era

Speaker Biography

Michael Goddard is the CTO of the Notebook and Desktop Business Units at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). In his prior role, he was Senior Director of the AMD Performance CoE responsible for the performance modeling teams, architecture extensions team, power analysis lab, and performance labs for the mobile, desktop, and server businesses. Earlier in his career, he was a Senior Member of Technical Staff on the microprocessor design team and spent 10 years as a key contributor helping AMD develop its family of x86 microprocessor products. He also spent 3 years in Europe helping software developers analyze and optimize their code for the Athlon family of processors. Mike holds a B.S. of Electrical and Computer Engineering from Carnegie Mellon and an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin. He holds more than 15 patents in various areas of computer architecture.