AMD CTO Responsibilities Being Split Up

[HardOCP News]

Earlier we reported that AMD’s CTO had resigned. C|Net is now reporting that, although Hester's resignation has left the position vacant, no replacement has been named and that his duties will actually be split across the company's individual business units.

It's true that Hester isn't being directly replaced, Keosheyan said, but Hester has worked to "distribute" the CTO's responsibilities across individual business units, like server chips or graphics chips. As of next week, the individual CTOs will report to their business unit leaders, such as Mario Rivas, head of the processor group. One exception will be the accelerated computing initiative, which will report directly to President and COO Dirk Meyer.

 

[maxius]

i think this may be a good move in the end it gives more power to people in the actual departments of amd hopefully this is going to be a good sign

 

[pxc]

LOL @ a good sign. C'mon already. If AMD went bankrupt today, a few people would also call that "a good sign."

 

[maxius]

well its never a good sign when someone with that much natural talent leaves but not actively replacing him and giving the power to the people in the actual departments is a good sign

 

[RoffleCopter]

They left the position open so they can save some money to give hector ruiz another raise.

 

[ICE_9]

Dear Mr. Ruiz,

Thanks for tanking your company. Feel free to stop anytime and start being competative.

Yours truly,
Intel

 

[pxc]

well its never a good sign when someone with that much natural talent leaves but not actively replacing him and giving the power to the people in the actual departments is a good sign

That's one way of looking at it, assuming the Hester was in some way preventing AMD from working efficiently.

Another way of looking at it is that Hester was the guy in charge of Fusion, the very reason that AMD is in the mess it's in now with the huge debt from acquiring ATI. And now he's gone, not exactly an assurance of how "good" the project is going. Note that is was his job to make something of the merger Hector so badly wanted. Hector fails, others bail. <---