Intel Hires NVIDIA’s Tom Petersen in Latest Move to Bolster

Anyone remotely accustomed to NVIDIA is aware of of their now erstwhile distinguished engineer Thomas A. Petersen, higher identified merely as Tom Petersen or TAP. He was a delight to work with so far as the tech media is worried, together with TechPowerUp, and was a supply of technical info on NVIDIA microarchitectures in addition to options focusing on the overall client and prosumer alike. The previous couple of keynote displays have has a visual lack of Tom on display screen, and even in particular person to the place we have been discussing internally whether or not he had taken on a extra “behind the scenes” method on the firm. As it seems, Tom is the most recent in line to have attracted the eyes of Intel because the latter gears as much as the problem of gaining advertising share within the discrete GPU enterprise within the years to come back.

Tom confirmed on his Facebook web page this previous Friday that he was certainly leaving NVIDIA, with March 29 being his final working day there. He was fast to notice his unemployment standing on his LinkedIn profile in a humorous method as properly, and this was certainly not for lengthy given information broke shortly from Hothardware, after which Gamers Nexus, who each independently verified from their contacts at Intel that Tom Petersen was headed to the blue staff before later. Aside from being a media liaison for technical advertising, he has been on the forefront for the event of instruments to assist benchmark render response and effectiveness (FCAT), contributed to NVIDIA’s GPU BOOST know-how immediately, and little question shall be an essential contributor at Intel to enhance the huge variety of PR and media personnel becoming a member of their ranks within the current few months. We are excited to see what Tom helps carry to the desk, and want him one of the best to assist create a extra open and competing dGPU marketplace for us.