AMD Loses Another Top Exec, This Time in the Client Group
AMD has confirmed another high profile departure.
Chris Cloran, corporate vice president and general manager of the client division at AMD has left the company. Cloran was in charge of the client processor business at AMD -- the unit that is responsible for the majority of AMD's revenue today.
There was no information when Cloran left and his future plans. The executive was promoted to corporate vice president in 2008 held the position of vice president for the company's mobile division prior to that.
Earlier this week, we learned that CFO Thomas Seifert will leave AMD effective September 28. The announcement has rocked AMD's stock and it appears that it has not bottomed out yet. AMD was down $0.03 or about 1 percent in Wednesday trading. The company's market cap is down to $2.54 billion.

On the contrary, mate.
Their engineers have actually good ideas, which can of course be improved.
There has been a lot of tinkering in this site about how Bulldozer can be tweaked and it showed A LOT of potential. Now, AMD needs to implement these kind of modifications. Their modular architecture is brillian IMO.
No, on the contrary, they need better management. Better paid engineers, better publicists, better financial advisors, better PR, etc.
I like to see heads roll within AMD, they have been watching everything crumble and done nothing for years. If they were kept there, it would only have continued their downfall.
Lets expect the best for the red team and their new batch of leading personnel.
Cheers!
If this is intentional, then guys like him need some... ethics? and inform, as well, the victories and strenghts of the company
Their modular architecture may seem brilliant to you, but as an engineer myself Bulldozer seems like a solution in search of a problem. Bulldozer is a CISC implementation of a RISC architecture that was briefly used and subsequently abandoned by a now defunct electronics company.
Silicon modularity really isn't all that it's cracked up to be. Intel managed to source over 150 different Sandybridge chips across the desktop, mobile, embedded, workstation, and server markets from only 5 different silicon blueprints. Intel's chips are "modular" in the sense that faulty parts can be selectively disabled for yield and marketing purposes.
The Avengers initiative for the PC world, made to combat Apple.
The modular architecture is no different than hyperthreading with the exception of the implementation. There is a level of resource sharing between threads to increase total throughput per transistors. So far as it being a cisc implementation of a risc arch, I really hope you aren't talking about niagra, because that wasn't a modular design. That was a server chip with one single FPU shared with eight for way SMP Cotes optimized for server-only use, not four dual core modules. On the subject of Intel's modularity, AMD has been doing the exact same thing with shutting down cores and cache to increase yields for eons. That isn't modularity, that's gimping parts to create new price points. Nothing special about that at all.
Yesterday Armhid Khan 53, a long time janitor at AMD resigned. He was cleaning the toilets at AMD for 23 years. In these harsh economic times this is a great loss for AMD. The stenct will spread throughout the offices of AMD, forcing even more employees to resign. The resignation of the valuable Mr. Khan caused the shares to drop another 87%. AMD is facing harsh time and may file for bankruptcy next month.