OSTG Marketing's Journal: AMD opens next-gen chip tech think-tank

Software giant AMD has opened a next-gen chip tech think-tank in Redmond, Washington. The Advanced Architecture and Technology Lab (AATL)'s mission is to determine which technologies will drive AMD's products "beyond the five-year time horizon", part of the company's plan to build it's operation into one to match arch-rival Intel's. "The AATL will be run by AMD's chief architectural officer, Rich Witek, who's been with the company since 2002 but has more than 26 years' experience in the semiconductor business beyond that. He holds 22 patents, AMD said, and has been involved in the development of the ARM, PowerPC and Alpha processors."