AMD to Replace CEO Hector Ruiz with Dirk Meyer

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Signs indicate AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is on his way out, but when is the question on everyone's mind


Chipmaker AMD historically played second fiddle to Intel when it comes to market share and often performance. For a while, AMD parts enjoyed performance advantages over its Intel counterpart, but recently the performance crown has again moved back to Intel.
When AMD moved to buy ATI, the graphics firm, in 2006 many expected big things from the merger for both ATI and AMD, but to date that just hasn’t materialized. NVIDIA is running away from ATI in discrete graphics market share and after it posted record earnings while earnings from ATI/AMD drop.
The lackluster performance of AMD and ATI has led to the exodus of some AMD executives starting with the resignation of ATI’s Dave Orton in July 2007. The next executive to leave AMD was Henri Richard, AMD executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer in August of 2007.
TheStreet.com now reports that sources are telling it that AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is possibly stepping down from his post. TheStreet.com’s unnamed source says that AMD President Dirk Meyer was appointed to the board last week and that plans for Meyer to take over the position of CEO for AMD has been in the works for some time.

"Dirk has always been slotted for being the new CEO. That's been clear since his nomination as president and COO," claimed TheStreet's source. Dirk Meyer was nominated president of AMD in January 2006.

However, reports say that there is no set time frame for a change of power at AMD. Ruiz's 5-year contract expired in April 2007, but was renewed for a one-year extention until April 26, 2008.
With no real outcry for Ruiz to leave it will likely be at least then before Meyer steps into the CEO position if rumors prove to be accurate.
However, not is all doom and gloom at AMD. The company just received $668 million shot in the arm after Mubadala Development Company took over 8.1% of the company's shares last week.

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=9687


Bye...Bye!!... :D
 
Li esse noticia na fonte ha coisa de 5 min e ate pensei em coloca la ca :D
A ser verdade, penso que será benefico haver uma liderança nova, mas por 1 lado, agora que a AMD parece renascer um pouco é que vai embora...assim parece que foi uma decisao ja tomada ha muito tempo a nao renovar mais que 1 ano..

Quem e o dito sucessor?
 
Kursk_crash disse:
Dirk Meyer é o novo dirigente que entrou á coisa de 1 mês !!!

Eu também acho que o ciclo do Hector ruiz já terminou e que é altura de mudar
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O Dirk Meyer já está na AMD há muito tempo.
Em minha opinião, mais um incompetente como o Hector.

Repito o que já aqui disse. Sem o Jerry Sanders a empresa não se endireita.
 
Esse Dirk Meyer não participou no desenvolvimento dos processadores Alpha da DEC e nos Athlon? Incompetente em que área? Só se for na administrativa porque participar no desenvolvimento de dois dos melhores processadores (de mercados distintos) dos últimos anos é de valor.
 
vadio disse:
Esse Dirk Meyer não participou no desenvolvimento dos processadores Alpha da DEC e nos Athlon? Incompetente em que área? Só se for na administrativa porque participar no desenvolvimento de dois dos melhores processadores (de mercados distintos) dos últimos anos é de valor.
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Exacto.
O Meyer e o Ruiz são ratos de laboratório que foram adaptados a administradores do negócio.
O Jerry Sanders, para além da figura histórica que foi na AMD e na Fairchild, era o "Steve Jobs" da indústria de semiconductores (o protótipo do "salesman" em Silicon Valley).
É graças a ele e ao acordo com a Intel há 25 anos que a AMD ainda existe hoje como fabricante de processadores x86.
 
blastarr disse:
É graças a ele e ao acordo com a Intel há 25 anos que a AMD ainda existe hoje como fabricante de processadores x86.
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Errado. O acordo foi feito porque a IBM exigia dois fornecedores.

E chamar incompetente ao Dirk Meyer, enfim...

E o Jerry Sanders tem 71 anos, dizer que a AMD não se endireita sem ele, enfim parte 2... alias, foi o Jerry Sanders que contractou o Hector Ruiz, e muito provavelmente o Dirk Meyer.
 
AMD Hires Mike Uhler as Vice President of Accelerated Computing

AMD announced respected industry veteran Mike Uhler, former CTO of MIPS, has joined the company as its first vice president of Accelerated Computing. Uhler has extensive experience developing advanced chip architectures and software for designs that combine multiple intellectual property (IP) blocks, as well as a deep understanding of customer requirements across a range of applications.

“We are excited to have Mike join AMD just as chip architectures, AMD software development and third-party development of related technologies are converging around our Accelerated Computing vision,” said Phil Hester, senior vice president and chief technology officer for AMD. “Customers are asking for design innovations that apply hardware and software more directly toward a set of workloads, rather than a one-size-fits-all approach. Mike furthers AMD’s design leadership by applying that philosophy to our Accelerated Computing vision and I welcome him aboard.”

AMD’s Accelerated Computing research and development (R&D) programs focus on accelerating specific computing tasks and increasing overall platform performance-per-watt through the use of discrete co-processors and integration of on-chip accelerator cores.

“There is an important shift occurring in chip hardware and software to address the simultaneous changes in both the types of information being processed and the amount of data available for processing,” said Uhler. “As a technologist, tackling these fundamental challenges inspires me and I look forward to working with AMD, its technology partners and its customers to address them.”

AMD’s vision for Accelerated Computing, unveiled at the close of AMD’s acquisition of ATI in 2006, calls for the increasing use of accelerators to offload certain workloads from the CPU and process them at higher speeds and efficiency levels. This balancing of workload computation across multiple chips and cores, allowing each to do what it does best, stands to dramatically improve overall system performance and energy-efficiency, while also enabling systems to be highly optimized for a specific set of tasks based on the unique priorities of the particular end-user segment.

As vice president of Accelerated Computing at AMD, Uhler will apply a strong leadership background in a technology career spanning nearly 30 years. Prior to his role as CTO of MIPS, he served in various architecture and engineering roles at MIPS, as Silicon Graphics Inc.’s, director of engineering, and as a senior consulting engineer at Digital Equipment Corp. Uhler has been issued 34 patents in the areas of computer architecture and design, and holds a M.S. in computer science and a B.S. in electrical engineering from the University of Arizona.

Source: AMD
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cumps
 
blastarr disse:
Exacto.
O Meyer e o Ruiz são ratos de laboratório que foram adaptados a administradores do negócio.
O Jerry Sanders, para além da figura histórica que foi na AMD e na Fairchild, era o "Steve Jobs" da indústria de semiconductores (o protótipo do "salesman" em Silicon Valley).
É graças a ele e ao acordo com a Intel há 25 anos que a AMD ainda existe hoje como fabricante de processadores x86.
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Engraçado que vai-se a ver o background de muitos gestores/administradores de topo e muitos vêm dos campos da Fisica (?), Contabilidade, Engenharias,etc...mas pronto bora lá generalizar.

Quando as coisas estavam bem, ninguem falava do senhor, agora...tipo futebol :p
 
Acho que a AMD está é a precisar de ser comprada... Para dar luta à Intel, ou assim cada vez mais se afunda.


Se a IBM comprasse a AMD era capaz de ser fixe lol Não sei é se a IBM tinha dinheiro para algo tão grande.
Ou então a Google lol Esses tinham dinheiro.
 
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