| Sam Naffziger | |
| Birth Name: | Samuel Naffziger |
| Alma Mater: | California Institute of Technology (BS) Stanford University (MSc) |
| Employer: | AMD |
Samuel Naffziger is an American electrical engineer who has been employed at Advanced Micro Devices in Fort Collins, Colorado since 2006. He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his leadership in the development of power management and low-power processor technologies.[1] He is also the Senior Vice President and Product Technology Architect at AMD.[2]
Naffziger received a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the California Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in computer engineering from Stanford University.[3]
For eight years, Naffziger led the Itanium design team at Hewlett-Packard before moving to Intel in 2002.[4] At Intel, Naffziger played a leading role in the introduction of two major Itanium models at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, the McKinley processor in 2002 and Montecito in 2005.[5]
Naffziger was an architect lead on AMD's Ryzen processors that launched in March 2017.[6] He was the lead advocate for AMD's Ryzen and Epyc lines to move to a modular, chiplet-based approach.[7] Towards the end of 2017, Naffziger began to lead the AMD graphics team in bringing a chiplet architecture to graphics with the RDNA 3 architecture, released in 2022.[8]