Ruiz would not step down in 2008. And back then, analyst Ashok Kumar was quoted saying that "Ruiz has to turn the ship around before he can turn over the helm." Really? No, he did not. In fact, when Ruiz took over AMD from the legendary Jerry Sanders, he was...

years of flawless execution." Commenting on the Barcelona bug, Ruiz said that AMD "blew [the launch] and [AMD] is very humbled by it." "Shame on us," he told analysts. "But we learned from it and it will never happen again," Ruiz said. Company executives believe...

an interesting twist. AMD cannot fire Ruiz, as the company is not in the position to pay for the executive’s golden parachute. The only possible solution could be that Ruiz will resign from his post and "will pursue other interests" - or transition into another...

2005, and AMD was looking into ways to respond to upcoming threats named Nehalem and Larrabee. But at the end of the day, it all fell apart because of fallout between Hector Ruiz and Jen-Hsun Huang. Huang wanted the CEO position, a position that Ruiz did not...

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...

chase. . The Associated Press reports that 33-year-old Jose Ruiz was sitting in his 2009 Chevrolet Tahoe with his cousin when a thief approached the vehicle with a sawn-off shotgun. At first Ruiz' cousin refused to comply with commands to get out of the car...

their "Asset Lite" strategy, or "Advanced Micro Devices" and "Arab Micro Devices", as recently outlined by the Inquirer. The State of New York would definitely like to learn about that part of Hector Ruiz’ strategy. It would be interesting how shareholders...

to its GPU production, AMD is planning to also outsource CPU production to Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) in the second half of this year, according to industry sources. Although Hector Ruiz, CEO of AMD did not mention any plans to outsource...