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Mark Papermaster

Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology & Engineering, Advanced Micro Devices

Search every verified Mark Papermaster interview, podcast appearance, and on-the-record quote — each transcript cross-checked by AI and human review to confirm speaker identity. Mark Papermaster, Chief Technology Officer and Executive Vice President of Technology & Engineering at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), appeared at the World Summit AI 2026 in Amsterdam, where he discussed semiconductor industry trends in an interview with Nitin Dahad of EE Times. He addressed AMD's strategy of moving up the compute stack, including recent acquisitions such as World Labs, and described the industry's shift toward tailored, domain-specific computing driven by AI efficiency demands. Papermaster also highlighted the expansion of heterogeneous design, noting AMD's history of combining CPU and GPU components, and discussed the next phase of chiplet development and photonics for connectivity. In the interview, Papermaster defined "sovereign AI" as nations and industries seeking control and avoiding lock-in to any single vendor, citing AMD's support for open standards and flexible reference designs across networking and compute elements. He expressed enthusiasm about AI's potential to improve productivity, energy efficiency, and healthcare, while emphasizing the responsibility of technologists to ensure security and safety in AI systems.

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“Sovereignty to us is that nations and industries want to have control. They want to be able to know that they're not locked in to any one aspect. And so I gave you the example of the software stack but we do the same from every element. So networking we have facilitated reference designs but we don't restrict to any one network vendor. We're open in terms of different network components. We're open for different type”

“Well, AMD, we've we got ahead of it. We've worked getting our CPUs and GPUs ready for this. And now with these agent workflows, you actually need both. In fact, the ratio of CPU to GPU is becoming like one to one. Um, but none of us anticipated how fast these agentic workflows would just take off. Last six months have just been amazing and it's just a harbinger of what's yet to come. We're just at the early stages.”

“And if we do it the right way uh and we really communicate and people can understand uh I think we can have great outcomes uh if not you're going to see people rejecting it. Uh and uh the problem is if certain countries reject it and others don't, it's going to create an imbalance of capability and frankly that leads to instability. It's the friction point.”

“We have a built-in encryption capabilities. So, you can it can all be encrypted. Someone walked away with your laptop and they don't have your codes and your passwords. It's useless to them. Uh, we actually do the same on the cloud. Uh, we have encryption capabilities that can be run there. It's called confidential compute. Uh so you might be running some you're a business and you have the same concern that you said ”

“If we can't lower the cost to make AI more accessible, we're going to create tremendous divisions in society because that's how powerful this capability is. It's going to be the halves and halves nots.”

“A number of 78 million new jobs that will be created by AI, but I'll caution you that as well as creating the number of jobs it will also displace existing roles.”

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