In recent years, AMD’s Research and Development (R&D) expenditure has increased in tandem with its revenues. With a quarterly R&D budget of hundreds of millions of dollars, AMD needs additional staff, and this time, it is constructing a brand-new CPU design centre in New York.
“AMD’s CPU side is hiring as well- they’re even building an entirely new site in Poughkeepsie, NY,” wrote AMD’s Mike Evans on Twitter
According to the employment page on AMD’s website, the company aims to hire verification engineers (the majority of them), a CPU core performance architect (this is a crucial position! ), as well as a “senior Infinity Fabric verification engineer.” Given the variety of opportunities available and the nature of those positions, another AMD R&D facility that is capable of expanding may be in the works.
AMD increased its R&D budget.
Following the huge success of the Ryzen CPU for client devices and the EPYC processor for data centres, AMD increased its R&D budget from about a billion dollars in 2016 to about $2.8 billion in 2021 (R&D expenses are a percentage of sales), giving the company a tonne of resources to create hardware and software.
A corporation may employ every resource at its disposal to expand its current operations or start new ones. AMD’s recently established New York R&D centre fulfils the second function. Time will tell whether New York will produce any groundbreaking architecture. But for now, AMD is strengthening its R&D capabilities.
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