Read falls on his sword....
what did AMD screw up now? Feldman left 4 months ago. ARM Opteron must be a mess.
AMD president and CEO Rory Read has stepped down, effective immediately, to be succeeded by fellow AMD exec Lisa Su. Read, who has served as AMD's chief exec since August 2011, will stay on with the company in an advisory role, but only through the end of 2014. "I am grateful to have had the opportunity to lead such a …
Same here, totes amazed a boffin is going to be running the show. I was prematurely mourning Rory before reading his replacement's CV. I liked that Rory guy though, he had a dreamy name, made me write words like totes (sorry).
AMD have some really interesting products across a broad and *"very sane" collection of different markets, Lisa looks like she can give them as reasonable a chance as a company could want - whilst avoiding the harvard-lackingethicsandimaginationTM-downsizeandacquisitions-tard style of CEO.
(think recent HP or maybe MS CEOs if you're not sure what I mean by that)
Good luck to Lisa leading AMD into the fiery crucible.
I like Lisa's short-term chances of success too.
AMD have quite a few bets going around the place and most are looking realistic and nicely sellable in 2015, it would be weird if at least one of them didn't pay off for the company. I guess the video console coup is the first big one outside of the consumer/corp x86 world, APU success may come when stuff like the Steambox hit the stores.
*very sane ie. think the opposite of pretty much anything Cisco acquired/tried to start through the mid-2000's
"bachelor's, master's, and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology"
Dang. She could kick my ass all the way 'round the block. That's a true boffin. I'm surprised she didn't get passed over for being "overqualified"
I wonder how HP would be doing if they had someone qualified to run the company too.