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04-12-2008, 12:46 AM
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| | | Technology Chief Quits Advanced Micro Devices
Things don't seem to be looking to bright for AMD these days. Link Quote:
The chip maker Advanced Micro Devices said Friday that its technology chief, Phillip D. Hester, is leaving, becoming the third senior executive to depart in less than a year.
Mr. Hester, 52, resigned to pursue other opportunities, said Rob Keosheyan, a spokesman for the company, based in Sunnyvale, Calif. His last day was Friday.
A.M.D.’s pace of chip development fell behind Intel’s last year, contributing to five consecutive quarterly losses and a 63 percent slide in the stock in 2007. Henri Richard, the sales chief, left in September and David E. Orton, head of the graphic unit, left in July.
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04-12-2008, 10:08 AM
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| | | man things are not looking all that great with AMD lately...what happened?! |
04-12-2008, 10:54 AM
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Originally Posted by Craig  man things are not looking all that great with AMD lately...what happened?! | I don't know if you heard of this company called Intel, rumor has it they might be big in these things called computers. 
They'll be fine. Even after being absolutely dumb by buying ATi (a merge/or buyout by nVidia would have been better).
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04-12-2008, 10:59 AM
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| | | This is actually GOOD for AMD, mind you. They have to bleed out the people who have put them in this position and replace them with better people. should have left long ago IMHO
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04-12-2008, 11:09 AM
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| | | they haven't bled out the main cancer yet
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04-12-2008, 11:20 AM
|  | ALTMAN BE PRAISED | | Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Ohio
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| | | Yeah, I posted this in the PWTFYW thread the yesterday. I doubt he quit on his own will. They sacked him for his failure with Barcelona.
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04-12-2008, 03:10 PM
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| | | Whether it's good or bad that he's gone, I just want AMD to come back up.
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