AMD is losing two more high-ranking executives.
According to BSN, senior vice president and chief information officer Mike Wolfe will be leaving the company effective Monday next week. Wolfe, 53, joined AMD in March of last year from HP, where he was vice president of information technology. Prior to HP, Wolfe held executive positions at Motorola and Freescale.
The second departure is Trevor Schulze, corporate vice president for global information technology at the company. Schulze was in charge of developing and implementing enterprise IT inside AMD with a budget of more than $100 million per year. Prior to AMD in 2008, Schulze was a senior director for engineering operations and IT at Cisco.
AMD confirmed the departure of Wolfe, but not the resignation of Schulze. However, it appears that Wolfe decided to leave on his own accord, as AMD said that it has appointed Jake Dominguez, vice president of corporate services, as "interim-CIO" until a permanent replacement is found.
Wonder where Dirk Meyer is now, I feel AMD needs him more than ever.
Wonder where Dirk Meyer is now, I feel AMD needs him more than ever.
Even thou I am an Intel fanboy...
Honestly though... I can't make a judgment call yet. Personally I don't think that AMD's lineup in the CPU arena is that bad. Yes they don't have a top tier that can compete with Intel's top tier, but I personally don't see that as so important considering how niche that portion of the market is. I could be wrong, but I just don't think that's their problem. I've said this before - on any given day I seen at least half a dozen commercials for Intel on TV and on the internet. The only AMD advertisement I ever see is a banner ad that is occasionally here on Tom's. That needs to be addressed. They have a decent offering of chips, but when Intel has such saturation in just knowing who makes processors, there are a lot of people who would be entering at the lower end of the market, where AMD is strong, but see AMD and think "who are they?" while looking at Intel and saying, "Oh, I saw their commercial a couple times". If they can't turn that around, then they will forever be stuck playing catch-up.
Maybe these changes will help, maybe they won't. I hope they do make a difference, but It's a little too soon to say.
It was an upper management decision to no longer compete for the top end CPU and just move toward other areas (ie. APU vs. CPU and integrated GPU ) which they felt would get them more sales in the laptop\mobile device area - so can't really place the blame on the Research and development units as they were just doing what they were told !
100m is barely going to do anything. AMD's operation cost for 1 quater alone is more than a billion. The R&D budget for a year is about $2 billion. They will need at least $2b to just have a chance to push out better products in 2 years time.
blame intel, they flexed a monoply mussel when amd was beating them badly, and amd never recovered from it.
than look at the p4, intels first thread solution... that sucked
look at bulldozer, amds first thread solution...
only problem is intel got their crap together behind closed doors, while amd doenst get that luxury.
in 5-10 years, all you will need is a good enough cpu, as everything cpu intensive will be shifted over to the gpu. really, amd has good enough cpus, but they need to last till the gpu really takes over in homes.
The FX-8xxx CPUs have eight REAL integer cores. Scaling isn't nearly 100% due to a front-end bottle-neck (such as the insufficient x86 decoders) that is to be fixed with the next generation AMD arch, Steamroller, but that doesn't change how many cores that there are.
No, they're simply being replaced. It's not the same.
Jeez, its been explained hundreds of times, there is NO true definition of a core. According to AMD 2 cores share a few things to work together on a module. Its no different that what Intel does, designing 1 cores to act as 2 from the thread perspective.
Quit it already, its called CPU architectures, its not hard. Intel nor AMD are the standard.
@topic: I really agree with DRosencraft. I've said it before and I repeat it: AMD needs advertising, to make people know that they are good enough and actually a great option depending on budgets and tasks. But there is no reason to panic right now. Just fanboys being fanboys, saying AMD doesnt produce good chips and stuff. Utter BS.