Mark Papermaster (Source: AMD)

AMD announced that Mark Papermaster, 50, has joined as the company’s senior vice president and chief technology officer. He will report to President and Chief Executive Officer Rory Read and will oversee all of AMD’s engineering, research and development, and product development functions as the head of the newly-formed Technology and Engineering Group.

Papermaster, who was most recently vice president of Silicon Engineering at Cisco, will be responsible for establishing and executing the company’s technology and product roadmaps, integrated hardware and software development, and overseeing the creation of all of AMD’s products. Prior to Cisco, he served as Apple’s senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering responsible for the iPod and iPhone hardware development.

He has also held a number of senior leadership roles at IBM, serving on the company’s Technical Leadership Team and overseeing development of key microprocessors and blade server technologies. Papermaster will be based in Sunnyvale, California.