AMD CEO Dirk Meyer Resigns 123
angry tapir writes "Advanced Micro Devices has announced that Dirk Meyer has resigned from the post of CEO, and that the company is beginning to search for a new chief executive. Meyer resigned in a mutual agreement with the board of directors, and the company has appointed Thomas Seifert, the company's chief financial officer, as the interim CEO. Meyer was installed as CEO in 2008 as a replacement to Hector Ruiz, just as the company was making its way out of rough financial times. In October, AMD posted a third-quarter net loss of US$118 million."
Re:AMD CPUs all over the place (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Sorry.. (Score:4, Insightful)
I for one an sorry to see him go. I think he has brought the company well through some rough times.
Some CEO's that are great for riding through the rough times aren't the CEO's that you want when that stretch is over.
Re:AMD CPUs all over the place (Score:5, Insightful)
Any word yet (Score:4, Insightful)
Re:Sorry.. (Score:4, Insightful)
Winston Churchill, meet Clement Atlee.
Except I think that involved winning a war, not just surviving in a currently tenuous second position...
Re:Hard call for GPU selection (Score:5, Insightful)
I predict that Cuda will quickly become irrelevant and die a long, slow death (ie- just legacy support, no new features). Much like Cg did, after GLSL and HLSL matured. No one wants to be stuck on a single hardware platform, despite performance advantages.
Still an AMD fanboy (Score:5, Insightful)
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Re:AMD CPUs all over the place (Score:4, Insightful)
Ahead in manufacturing tech, maybe. Architecture? Who made x64?
That's a bit like saying ford is the worlds greatest motor company because of the Model T, and then neglecting to notice the failures of it's recent business practices. x64 was something AMD did right 8 years ago. In the last 8 years however, things haven't gone as well for the business....
Who has one of the lowest power draw/highest performance CPU/GPU combo for mobile systems that would shit all over tons of current in-service desktop systems, with an even better revision coming soon?
Intel ATOM and Nvidia ION?