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Forrest Norrod is AMD’s executive vice president and general manager of the Data Center Solutions Business Group at AMD. In this role, he is responsible for managing all aspects of strategy, business management and engineering for AMD data center products. Norrod has more than 30 years of technology industry experience across a number of engineering and business management roles at both the chip and system level.
Norrod was previously vice president and general manager of the Server Business at Dell from December 2009 to October 2014. He joined Dell as CTO of Client Products in August 2000, and held multiple engineering and management roles during his tenure.
Prior to Dell, Norrod worked at Cyrix Corp from 1993 to 1997 and led the integrated x86 CPU businesses at National Semiconductor from 1997 to 2000.
Norrod earned his Bachelor of Science and Master of Science degrees in electrical engineering from Virginia Tech and holds 11 US patents in computer architecture, graphics and system design.
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