AMD's Hector Ruiz has now Stop Down

[ninzska21]

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As we pre-announced last week Hector Ruiz, the CEO of AMD, is stepping out of the chair and making place for Dirk Myer to become the CEO of this fallen chip manufacturer.

Hector was the CEO from 2002, since legendary Jerry Sanders III left the company to retire, and Hector did quite a good job, at least until Barcelona debacle. This makes Dirk as the third ever CEO of AMD.


Dirk is an ex DEC engineer and was one of the chaps who have designed Alpha CPU and later in AMD he lead a team to Athlon 64 success. We believe he is the perfect man for the job but we also know that he is afraid of journalists and doesn’t really like to talk to the public.

Hector stays as an executive chairman and he will probably have more time to run its asset smart / asset light strategy while Dirk can concentrate on making the AMD back on track.

At the same time AMD announced 1.2 billion loss but we will deal with that news in a separate article. Now more than ever it looks like AMD might break even in Q4 2008 but once you fire 10 percent of your staff and write off more than 2 billion of your debt, you can get to profitability.

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Goodbye.. thnx for the goood old days of AMD...
but u sux at C2D..

[-shinobi-]

fallen na d i ni ang amd?

[grss1982]

fallen na d i ni ang amd?

That also caught my attention as well.

Even with Intel ruling, I hope AMD can still remain competitive.

[COMCAM]

ah di ni ma wa ang AMD, they will continue to manufacture and I think they'll be better than ever

[BlackAngelSensui]

Amd still rocks basta dili na sila mawala

[graveyard666]

Hoping Mr. Dirk can make out AMD back on the track... but AMD still doing good in desktop computing.

[EntrePinoy]

sus ayaw lang tawn ka wala!!

[harvz86]

kung ma wala ang amd apil sad ba ma wala ang ATi?

ayaw lang tawn!

[kazki]

kailangan dli jd mawala ang amd... for us all!

[regilb]

goodbye amd.. intel rockz... lolz