Not so long ago, Hector Ruiz stepped down as CEO of Advanced Micro, being replaced by the company's chief operating officer, Dirk Meyer. Rumors of Hector Ruiz stepping down as AMD's chief executive officer have surfaced since May this year, but they were confirmed only a few months ago. Despite the fact tha... |
12 August 2008
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As we informed you on Monday, Advanced Micro has been showered by the media with quite a few favorable pieces, thanks to its latest Radeon graphics cards. Nevertheless, this fails to change the fact that, overall, the company isn't doing all that well, a thing that is more than obvious in the Q2 figures register... |
18 July 2008
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AMD's ex-corporate vice-president of marketing Stephen DiFranco has just announced that he would join Lenovo to pursue other challenges in the notebook world. DiFranco left AMD on April 23rd and according to tech website Fudzilla, the chip manufacturer will also break up with Mario Rivas himself who is currently... |
12 May 2008
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Chip manufacturer Intel awarded its CEO a huge cash bonus during last year, that almost doubled its compensations. The report is based on his filling with the Securities and Exchange Commission. According to the compensation filling, Paul Otellini got $12.1, which accounts for some $6.2 million added to its regular $... |
4 April 2008
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The alleged raise AMD's CEO and Chairman got last week proved to be the result of a misinterpreted SEC filing. The compensation document AMD had submitted read that Ruiz's base salary had been increased from $1,046,358 in 2006 to $1,124,000.AMD officials made it clear that the mentioned compensation was neg... |
18 December 2007
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There is no secret that AMD have just reached the financial pit's bottom and have started scratching their way to the surface, but there's a long way ahead until they reach a zero balance. Profits are still out of discussion and it would take a new generation of CPUs to make AMD return to the rich people. T... |
14 December 2007
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AMD attended yesterday the company's annual analyst meeting, where they could not cease apologizing in front of the Wall Street experts for their 2007 screw-ups. The chipmaker promised that they will return to full form in 2008 with a revamped version of the Barcelona quad-core line, whose functionality is curre... |
14 December 2007
03:09 GMT |
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Advanced Micro Devices is munching on naming president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer to take over as top executive, although Hector Ruiz, the one who actually holds this position said that he does not consider stepping aside for the year to come. Hector Ruiz clearly stated that the company's top executi... |
12 December 2007
09:36 GMT |
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Although things have finally started to move for number two chip manufacturer, the situation is still far from what AMD would have wished. When the Arabian company Mubadala announced that they have purchased Advanced Micro Devices shares that were worth $622 million, things have started falling apart on the stock mar... |
3 December 2007
03:39 GMT |
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There is no doubt that AMD has had a tough year, which reflected in over $1.5 billion US loss and multiple delays in releasing the company's first quad-core processor. The Intel competitors always seemed one step ahead of them, while they were busy taking up the ATI business. The recent unveiling of the Phenom p... |
19 November 2007
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