Joshua Friedrich

Joshua Friedrich received the B.S. degree in electrical engineering from the University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA. He is currently a Distinguished Engineer and the Director of POWER Technology Development with IBM’s Server and Technology Group. He is responsible for the design and delivery of IBM’s POWER9 processor. He was the Circuit Design Lead for the POWER8 chip and has been part of the POWER Development Team since POWER4. He has led multiple design disciplines including power estimation and reduction, hardware characterization, memory subsystem circuit development, and core execution units.