Robert Hallock, AMD’s director of technical advertising and marketing, is departing the corporate after 12 years, he introduced on LinkedIn (opens in new tab).
Hallock was a public-facing determine on the firm, working with the AMD fan group on Reddit, Discord, YouTube and different platforms whereas additionally briefing the press.
“Over time, I’ve had the glory and privilege of publicly instructing others about some actually stellar innovation: the Zen core household, 3D V-Cache, chiplet packaging, HBM reminiscence, FreeSync, low-overhead graphics APIs, and rather more,” Hallock wrote in his submit. “After working in each graphics and processors for roughly 6 years every, I’ve discovered a lot.”
Hallock hasn’t detailed the place he’ll be going subsequent. On LinkedIn, he wrote that he can be touring whereas he thinks about his subsequent transfer. Hallock is one in all a number of high-profile staff at AMD to depart lately.
In 2017, then Radeon chief Raja Koduri left AMD and now heads up the graphics group at Intel, together with Arc. In 2018, Chris Hook, then senior director of worldwide product advertising and marketing, left after 17 years from a profession that began at ATI. That is the identical 12 months that Jim Anderson, the final supervisor and senior vice chairman of the computing and graphics group, left. (Anderson now serves as president and CEO of Lattice Semiconductor.) In 2019, one other public-facing communications worker introduced his departure with a tweet.
It is unclear who will take Hallock’s place at AMD. AMD did not reply to a request for remark earlier than publication, however we’ll replace if we hear again. He is leaving simply earlier than the launch of AMD’s Ryzen 7000 desktop processors powered by the 5 nm Zen 4 structure. These chips will launch on September 27, so if AMD needs a public face to clarify what PC builders will get out of these chips, it must discover somebody to fill his sneakers quick.
