New Appointment Focuses on AI and Data Center Strategy
MediaTek (2454) confirmed on 今（4）日 that former Intel (Intel) Executive Vice President Navid Shahriari will join the company on 11月9日 as Senior Vice President, reporting to the General Manager and COO. He has 37年 of experience in semiconductor design engineering and advanced packaging, and will lead advanced process, yield, packaging and testing, and quality and reliability teams, with one of his core tasks being to deepen cooperation with important supply chain partners such as TSMC (2330) to support AI and high-speed computing product development.
It is understood that in addition to his experience in semiconductor design engineering and advanced packaging, Navid Shahriari also has practical experience in the data center market. His responsibilities in this appointment span multiple technology segments, from process-design collaboration to packaging, testing and quality management, all within his scope, with a cross-team integration character, echoing MediaTek's strategic direction of expanding in AI and data centers.
Intel Career Spans Design and Manufacturing
In a personnel announcement issued on 6月18日 this year, Intel announced that then-Executive Vice President Navid Shahriari would retire after serving the company for 37年. Earlier, in 2022年, Intel announced that he would serve as Senior Vice President and Co-General Manager of the Design Engineering Group, focusing on data center products; he had previously led manufacturing and product engineering organizations, building experience in design-engineering and manufacturing collaboration.
This experience covers data center product development as well as collaboration management across design and manufacturing. For MediaTek, as product design, supply-chain technology and mass-production requirements need closer coordination, this engineering management experience is an important background for this recruitment.
Overseeing Technical Linkage From Process to Delivery
MediaTek said that after joining, Navid Shahriari will lead the advanced process and yield platform, design-technology co-optimization, advanced testing and packaging, and quality and reliability teams. Among them, the advanced process and yield platform involves process introduction and manufacturing performance, design-technology co-optimization focuses on the coordination of chip design and process technology, followed by subsequent testing, packaging and quality-reliability requirements, forming the technical support needed from design to product delivery.
As this appointment also covers the quality and reliability teams, his scope will extend to verification and quality management following product development. MediaTek hopes to strengthen linkages across different technology segments through senior-executive coordination to support future product development.
Deepening Supply-Chain Collaboration a Key Focus
MediaTek further explained that one of Navid Shahriari's core tasks is, based on the company's future development strategy, to deepen cooperation with important supply-chain partners such as TSMC, and through close collaboration and integration of advanced technologies, to help the company provide competitive AI and high-speed computing products. In addition to managing internal technology teams, the new Senior Vice President will also undertake the task of deepening technical collaboration with external partners.
At present, the information disclosed by MediaTek focuses mainly on the start date, position, team responsibilities and cooperation direction, without specifying particular products or new cooperation projects. As Navid Shahriari formally takes office, how he advances technology collaboration, process introduction and product development will further demonstrate the results of this personnel move.