Joshua Friedrich is a Senior Technical Staff Member and Senior Manager of POWERTM Technology Development in IBM’s Server and Technology Group. In his role, Josh leads the physical design, technology direction, and methodology of IBM’s future POWERTMprocessors. Josh has been part of the POWER development team since POWER4TM, and on past POWERTM designs, Josh has led multiple design disciplines including power estimation and reduction, hardware characterization, memory subsystem circuit development, and core execution units. Before joining IBM, Josh received his Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Texas at Austin.