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Ex-Newisys CTO Joins AMD

Will Report to AMD's CTO

Former IBM Fellow and former Newisys CTO Rich Oehler has joined AMD's Office of Strategy and Technology reporting to CTO Fred Weber.

He's there to align AMD's multi-core enterprise-class strategies with the needs of the Fortune 1000.

Oehler is treasured for his work in microprocessors, SMP and mission-critical systems design. Newisys was the Texas company full of ex-IBMers that tried to make it as a systems vendor with Opteron-based servers. It was acquired by Sanmina-SCL, which built boxes for AMD.

When last seen last September, Newisys was working on leapfrogging Opteron's native eight-processor limitation and building 32-way or better Opteron systems.

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