Samuel Naffziger

Panelist on the CHIPS Act Panel (AMD is the 2024 IEEE Corporate Innovation Award recipient)

Samuel Naffziger is SVP and Corporate Fellow at AMD responsible for technical strategy and product architecture.   He has been the lead innovator behind many of AMD’s chiplet architecture products and low power features.   He has over 35 years of industry experience with a background in microprocessors and circuit design, starting at Hewlett Packard, moving to Intel and then at AMD since 2006.  He received the BSEE from CalTech in 1988 and MSEE from Stanford in 1993 and holds over 150 US patents in the field.  He has authored dozens of publications and presentations on processors, architecture and power management and is a Fellow of the IEEE.