Sam Naffziger

Senior Vice President and Corporate Fellow, AMD

Samuel Naffziger is a Senior Vice President and Corporate Fellow at AMD responsible for technical strategy with a focus on power technology development. He has been the lead innovator behind many of AMD’s low-power features and chiplet architecture. He has over 30 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 120 U.S. 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.