AMD is proud to announ­ce the return of the well-respec­ted aut­ho­ri­ty in gam­ing, Richard Hud­dy. After three years away from AMD, Richard returns as AMD’s Gam­ing Sci­en­tist in the Office of the CTO — he’ll be ser­ving as a seni­or advi­sor to key tech­no­lo­gy exe­cu­ti­ves, like Mark Paper­mas­ter, Raja Kodu­ri and Joe Macri. AMD is extre­me­ly exci­ted to have such an indus­try visio­na­ry back. Having spent his pro­fes­sio­nal care­er with com­pa­nies like NVIDIA, Intel and ATI, and having led the world­wi­de ISV engi­nee­ring team for over six years at AMD, Mr. Hud­dy has a tru­ly uni­que per­spec­ti­ve on the PC and Gam­ing industries.

Mr. Hud­dy rejoins AMD after a brief stint at Intel, whe­re he had a major impact on their gra­phics road­map.  During his care­er Richard has made enorm­ous con­tri­bu­ti­ons to the indus­try, inclu­ding the deve­lo­p­ment of DirectX and a wide ran­ge of visu­al effects tech­no­lo­gies.  Mr. Huddy’s con­tri­bu­ti­ons in gam­ing have been so signi­fi­cant that he was immor­ta­li­zed as ‘The Sci­en­tist’ in Max Pay­ne (if you’re a gamer, you’ll see the resem­blan­ce immediately).

Richard will be sha­ring a video on AMD.com to talk about his return later this week, which I’ll be sure to share with you when it is live.