AMD has announced that graphics and parallel compute architect Michael Mantor has been appointed to AMD Corporate Fellow position for his demonstration of leadership in graphics engineering.

The title of Corporate Fellow is the highest possible level of technical recognition at the company and currently only four employees hold that title. Michael Mantor made significant contribution to a diverse set of AMD graphics products including those powering current-gen consoles, Microsoft Xbox One and Sony Playstation 4 as well as multiple generations of AMD Radeon graphics products.

As Corporate Fellow, Mantor wil continue to lead graphics and compute architecture teams in the development of next-generation architectures that will be used in PCs, game consoles, VR devices, workstations and super computers.

Mantor is a well known figure in the graphics industry and since joining ATI in 1999, he was behind several GPU architectures and plenty of technologies as well as AMD's heterogeneous system architecture (HSA) has been under Mantor's guidance. He also made major contributions to both the graphics industry and AMD with 45 patents issued to date.



Source: via Techpowerup.com.