Robert Ober has 25 years experience in processor and system architecture. He is a Fellow in the Office of the CTO at LSI Logic, working in the Advanced Technology and Architecture Group. Previously Robert was a Fellow in the Office of the CTO AMD, with responsibility for mobile and embedded platform solutions and wireless strategy, was one of the founding Board members of OLPC ($100 laptop.org) and was influential in its technical evolution.

Previously he was Chief Architect at Infineon Technologies responsible for the TriCore family, used in automotive, communication, and security products. He also consulted on improvements in methodology, libraries, process and restructuring the mobile phone platform family. Robert was manager of Newton Technologies at Apple Computer, was involved in the creation of the PowerPC, StrongARM, and ARC processors, and has experience in development of mainframes, CDC, CRAY and SPARC supercomputers, as well as high speed networks. Robert has an honors Bachelor of Applied Science (BASc.) in Systems Design Engineering from University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada.