AMD CEO Steps Down
Original post provide by Latest News from AJAX & RIA JOURNALCEO Hector Ruiz, increasingly blamed for the harrowing of AMD, stepped down during the company’s Q2 conference call with Wall Street Thursday in favor of his sidekick, AMD president and patent-carrying engineer Dirk Meyer, the guy who used to run AMD’s chip operation and was responsible for the Opteron chip that brought grief to Intel. Since the two have been so closed aligned it is unclear whether the change will make any substantive difference in AMD’s fortunes.
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