I learned today that Daryl Ostrander is retiring and Douglas Grose will take his place.
I don't know much about either, but under Ostrander AMD became a manufacturing powerhouse that basically caught up with Intel's performance while being a silicon process generation behind and supplied 20% of the market with a puny 200mm Fab working at chronic overproduction, all while earning accolades such as Sematech's.
In comes Douglas Grose. This is what we know of this guy:
* Comes from IBM in a position overseeing silicon process development
* Graduated in the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, which "is fairly near IBM's research facilities in upstate NY" -- thanks jspeed, I am a fool who automatically assumed that the RPI was located in Germany because of the name!.
* Masters in business
* PhD. in materials science.
Doesn't seem that D. Ostrander was sacked.
Monday, February 05, 2007
Ostrander retires, Grose comes in
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I take it as a bad sign that Ostrander "retired" days after Intel announced their 45 nm technology.
That said, I do like the fact that Grose went to RPI (my alma mater). I don't understand your comment about the German link. But of course, RPI is fairly near IBM's research facilities in upstate NY.
Thanks for the correction, jspeed. And thanks for leaving a name. I don't necessarily agree on D. O. retiring scared of 45nm
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