Sam Naffziger

Samuel Naffziger is an American electrical engineer who has been employed at Advanced Micro Devices in Fort Collins, Colorado since 2006.

He was named a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) in 2014 for his leadership in the development of power management and low-power processor technologies.

[3] For eight years, Naffziger led the Itanium design team at Hewlett-Packard before moving to Intel in 2002.

[4] At Intel, Naffziger played a leading role in the introduction of two major Itanium models at the International Solid State Circuits Conference, the McKinley processor in 2002 and Montecito in 2005.

[6] He was the lead advocate for AMD's Ryzen and Epyc lines to move to a modular, chiplet-based approach.