Chekib Akrout

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ABOUT CHEKIB AKROUT

COO at Motivo, IncMotive has very high potential AI technology helping improving chip design and manufacturing.At Synopsys he was Corporate VP for Strategic projects working on AI technology and then Senior VP for Customer Excellence responsible for field engineering and business development.Applying Chekib’s exceptional interpersonal skills and uncompromising integrity, he served on AMD’s senior leadership team responsible for key decision making and strategy development. Over the years, Chekib has been instrumental in building AMD’s advanced R&D strategy and developing the long-term technology roadmap. He has also been critical in key technological developments such as building the next generation CPU core, improving process & circuit technology, and influencing the IP/SoC design methodology.Before joining AMD in 2008, Chekib worked at Freescale Semiconductor as vice president and general manager of the Networking System Division where he focused on driving processor competitiveness for networking multi-core and digital signal processing. Prior to Freescale, he spent 23 years at IBM, where he served in a number of technical roles including vice president of Entertainment and Embedded Processor Development. In that role, Chekib was responsible for the Cell Project, which is power-efficient and cost-effective high-performance processing for a wide range of applications, including game consoles, that was developed in partnership with Sony, Toshiba, and IBM. He was also involved in the processor development for Microsoft’s Xbox 360 and other embedded PowerPC processor cores.Chekib has extensive international experience with global execution of R&D, assembly/test, packaging, fabs and foundries. He is an acclaimed keynote speaker and has published numerous technical papers.