Full Name
Amber Huffman
Job Title
Intel Fellow and Chief Technologist in the IP Engineering Group
Company
Intel Corporation
Speaker Bio
Amber Huffman is a distinguished Fellow and Chief Technologist in the IP Engineering Group at Intel Corporation. Most recently, she leads the definition of industry leading IP building blocks (including memory and IO) across Intel’s entire product portfolio.
A respected authority on storage, memory and IO architecture, Huffman has used her expertise and influence to lead Intel and the storage industry toward the definition and adoption of fast, streamlined, highly power-managed and low-latency storage interfaces. She defined, created and drove the NVMe storage standard. This included forming and chairing the NVM Express (NVMe) Workgroup, a consortium of companies working to define a standardized interface for PCI Express-based solid-state drives. Huffman was lead author and editor on the NVMe specification. She continues to chair the board of directors for the NVMe Workgroup and the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Workgroup; both groups are coalitions of more than 90 technology companies.
Huffman has devoted her career to IO and memory interfaces since joining Intel in 1998. Her early work focused on Serial ATA (SATA) technology, the storage interface standard implemented in most PCs today. She developed prototypes and began leading and writing portions of the standard, earning a coveted Intel Achievement Award for her work. Huffman led the development of the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), which remains the standard programming interface for SATA today. Subsequently, she led the technical and industry development of ONFI, which standardizes the NAND Flash memory component interface and enables customers to use Flash from various hardware vendors. As with AHCI and NVMe, she served as lead author and editor on the ONFI industry specification.
Huffman earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been granted more than 20 patents in storage architecture. Huffman is known as a passionate mentor for technologists, including a strong track record of sponsoring numerous men and women to senior technologist positions within the company.
A respected authority on storage, memory and IO architecture, Huffman has used her expertise and influence to lead Intel and the storage industry toward the definition and adoption of fast, streamlined, highly power-managed and low-latency storage interfaces. She defined, created and drove the NVMe storage standard. This included forming and chairing the NVM Express (NVMe) Workgroup, a consortium of companies working to define a standardized interface for PCI Express-based solid-state drives. Huffman was lead author and editor on the NVMe specification. She continues to chair the board of directors for the NVMe Workgroup and the Open NAND Flash Interface (ONFI) Workgroup; both groups are coalitions of more than 90 technology companies.
Huffman has devoted her career to IO and memory interfaces since joining Intel in 1998. Her early work focused on Serial ATA (SATA) technology, the storage interface standard implemented in most PCs today. She developed prototypes and began leading and writing portions of the standard, earning a coveted Intel Achievement Award for her work. Huffman led the development of the Advanced Host Controller Interface (AHCI), which remains the standard programming interface for SATA today. Subsequently, she led the technical and industry development of ONFI, which standardizes the NAND Flash memory component interface and enables customers to use Flash from various hardware vendors. As with AHCI and NVMe, she served as lead author and editor on the ONFI industry specification.
Huffman earned a bachelor’s degree in computer engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Stanford University. She has been granted more than 20 patents in storage architecture. Huffman is known as a passionate mentor for technologists, including a strong track record of sponsoring numerous men and women to senior technologist positions within the company.
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