AMD Low-Power Guru Addresses the Looming Electronics Power Challenge
Moore's Lobby: Where engineers talk all about circuits
- Published
- October 25, 2022
- Duration
- 1h 13m
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- Last updated
- Jun 7, 2026
Discusses Starting his engineering education by taking classes at Caltech under Carver Mead, one of "one of th…
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Starting his engineering education by taking classes at Caltech under Carver Mead, one of "one of the luminaries of computer VLSI design," Sam Naffziger "really got excited about the VLSI design field" early in his career. That excitement hasn't waned a bit as he continues to tackle important challenges in low-power circuit and system design. Low-power de…
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Starting his engineering education by taking classes at Caltech under Carver Mead, one of "one of the luminaries of computer VLSI design," Sam Naffziger "really got excited about the VLSI design field" early in his career. That excitement hasn't waned a bit as he continues to tackle important challenges in low-power circuit and system design. Low-power design techniques like boost and adaptive clocking were brand new in the early 2000s, and not much interest to teams focused almost solely on per