Steve is a Corporate Vice President at AMD whose focus is on scalable, quality systems.   Steve has 30+ years of experience in design and product engineering.   He has been responsible in the last several years for a cross functional team that addresses key quality concerns across AMD server products from development to validation and manufacturing ramp to customer enablement and sustaining support and drives corrective action into AMD processes as well as industry standards, research, and vendor collaborations.   His additional responsibilities include RAS architecture,  Design for Test and Debug IP and CAD,  and the on-chip control and data planes of the Infinity Fabric.

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Corporate Vice President, General Manager, Data Center and AI Product Management, Intel Corporation

Dr. Zane A. Ball is a Corporate Vice President and General Manager of the Data Center and AI (DCAI) Product Management Group. DCAI Product Management is responsible for end-to-end stewardship of DCAI’s systems, SW, CPU, GPU, and custom product line through the entirety of the product lifecycle.  Prior to his product management role, Ball was CVP and GM of platform engineering and architecture for Intel’s data center business.  Ball has also served as Co-GM of Intel’s foundry effort as a VP in the Technology and Manufacturing group and VP of the Client Computing Group including roles as GM of the desktop client business and as GM of global customer engineering.

Ball has a bachelor’s degree, master’s degree, and Ph.D. in electrical engineering, all earned from Rice University.  He also holds six patents in high-speed electrical design.