Dirk Meyer Announced New AMD CEO

By Wolfgang Gruener, published on July 17, 2008 at 6:20 PM
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AMD’s current chief executive officer Hector Ruiz is stepping down and handing his role to Dirk Meyer, who has been elected president and CEO of AMD, effective immediately.

Ruiz will remain with AMD as chairman of the board, finalizing AMD’s Asset Light (Smart) strategy, which is rumored to include the sale of AMD’s fabs.

More details to come.

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Anonymous 07/18/2008 12:27 PM
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Finally, some changes, hopefully for the better.

blackwidow_rsa 07/18/2008 1:18 AM
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Yay! Get the champagne and crackers!

seboj 07/18/2008 2:51 AM
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Where's my camcorder? I want to get video footage of hell freezing over.

Anonymous 07/18/2008 5:40 AM
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This is the not the changing of the guards its the writing on the wall. i.e, Not a parade of fools but a captain jumping ship. Imagine another CPU SNAFU, now imagine Nvidias 512 bus on DDR5. Now imagine the sound of a candle being blown out..

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