John Rayfield, Intel’s director of Meteor Lakes AI technology, is moving to AMD, Tara Smith is heading public relations, and Kavitha Prasad is leaving. Prasad had that “Artificial Intelligence Strategy and Implementation” In the professional division as her area of responsibility, she is now moving to Amazon Web Services (AWS).
ComputerBase was able to exchange more than a few words with John Rayfield about Computex 2023 and the Meteor Lakes VPU (NPU) demonstration. burned as”Vice President and General Manager, Intel AI Customer Business” on the topic of artificial intelligence (AI) and therefore remains true to that topic at AMD. There he now serves as corporate vice president (CVP) of the “AI Silicon” division. At Computex, he explained the capabilities of AI more broadly to Intel. Ironically, Many of the statements also of course also apply to AMD’s AI division or will become so in the future.
A notable departure from Intel is also that of Kavitha Prasad. After nearly 20 years at Intel with stops including three years at Xilinx, she most recently served as “Vice President and General Manager of Data Center, AI, Cloud Implementation and Strategy“Clothing. However, she is now changing employers, but remains largely loyal to the region and is now in charge of AWS “Security work to protect the perimeter.”.
Tara Smith, who has served as chief communications officer since 2020, is also changing after the public face of Ryan Schrute. You will move to a smaller PR firm; Smith has roots in the region, including working for Microsoft through a public relations agency.
Intel has not yet found a successor to this important position in the company, and Carrie Acree has taken over the position on an interim basis. She has been with the company for 23 years and has now worked her way up from a junior PR manager to almost the top. As usual, for senior positions of this type, external applications are also considered before a final personnel decision is made.
