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Mark Papermaster

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Board Member at Penguin Solutions
📍 Austin, Texas, United States

Mark is the CTO & EVP at AMD, steering the technical direction for groundbreaking products like the "Zen" CPU family. A University of Texas alumnus and member of the National Academy of Engineering, colleagues praise his deep technical understanding and commitment to excellence.

Beyond his executive duties, Mark serves on the board for Penguin Solutions, contributing his extensive engineering and product development expertise to the high-performance computing and AI infrastructure company.

He previously reported directly to Steve Jobs at Apple, leading hardware engineering for pivotal iPod and iPhone products, including the introduction of FaceTime and the Retina display.

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Experience
43 Years
Current Role
Board Member
Job Level
Leadership
Location
Austin, Texas, United States
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Priorities

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Open Source AI
Championing the ROCm open software platform to democratize AI development, positioning it as an open alternative for the industry, as seen in his recent posts.
Next-Gen Supercomputing
Driving AMD's partnership with the U. S. Department of Energy to build next-generation supercomputers that will accelerate breakthroughs in national security, climate, and healthcare.
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Career

Work history

9-2022
Board Member
Penguin Solutions
1-2019
CTO and EVP
AMD
10-2011 - 1-2019
CTO, and SVP Technology and Engineering
AMD
11-2010 - 10-2011
VP, Silicon Engineering
Cisco
11-2008 - 8-2010
SVP, Devices HW Engineering
Apple Inc.
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Education
1978 - 1982
BSEE
The University of Texas at Austin
MSEE
University of Vermont
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