AMD Promotes John Byrne to Chief Sales Officer
John Byrne is the new man in charge for AMD's sales unit.
As chief sales officer, Byrne is responsible for all global accounts and making sure that AMD is perceived as a credible and trustworthy partner. CEO has given Byrne the task of "exceeding the expectations of AMD's largest multinational partners".
While several key positions in AMD's top management have been filled with fresh blood, Byrne has been recruited from AMD's own ranks. Byrne was previously corporate vice president for the Americas region and corporate vice president of worldwide channel and SMB sales before that. He joined AMD in 2009 from Vanguard International Semiconductor (VIS), where he served as president.
Over the past year, AMD has replaced all critical pillars of its company leadership with new executives. CEO Rory Read came from Lenovo, CMO Colette LaForce from Dell, chief strategy officer Rajan Naik from McKinsey & Company, CTO Mark Papermaster from Apple/IBM, and Lisa Su, SVP Global Business, from Freescale.
Sure, sure, we all know that AMD isnt a strong competitor, but some of their products actually compete well against some from Intel. The higher end? helpless, gone to the blue side, but what about HTPCs? Low/mid budget gaming rigs? Come on, you cant tell me that you need an i7 to achieve decent gaming. A 4-core FX with a bit of (easy) overclock is just fine if you dont bottleneck your video card, which is why sites like this exists, to find correct combinations, and as far as I know, CPU bottlenecking from FX chips (in gaming) is not as bad as you think.
Again, they need to make space to their market. For example, I dont see ANY advertising from AMD in my country, at all. Even less on TV. They do have products to compete with, but most people go, uninformed, to the 'Intel inside'. Now, im not saying Intel's bad, at all. And is still a very good choice at some pricepoints, but they mainly catch people with propaganda, nobody can deny that.
Bottomline, I really expect this guy to do wonders. Oncoming FX Piledrivers, having Trinity. They need to create awareness inside the uneducated masses. Titanic task, and so, I wish him the best.
Cheers everyone c:
They must hire more programmers to write suitable drivers specially for the Graphics section.
AMD is really good but without supporting from software developers each new product of AMD turns to be another failure:
http://hothardware.com/Reviews/AMDs-New-FirePro-W8000-W9000-Challenge-Nvidias-Quadro/
I wish AMD had more money to put into marketing, or anything really. Intel is just 10 times the size of amd, and it doesn't work in amd's favor. AMD will never sink because intel won't allow it. They need an excuse for their near monopoly. Intel makes a good product, but only because of their dirty business practices in the past.(probably still)
If AMD did manage to sort its drivers out (as you say, though that review makes it hard to refute), I'm wondering how much more they could get out of their hardware.
As someone said earlier in this thread, AMD would have gone under already if not for the purchase of ATI.
Please verify your facts before talking.
Anyway, yeah APU doesnt make much sense for hardcore gaming anyway. Dual graphics mode enables users to achieve mid range results... and the pricetag is not really that compelling. But hey, they have better integrated solutions, and in the end, about 90% of global purchases are NOT extreme-oriented.
Trying to tell people AMD has competitive products will never hold. Its true, they offer competitive prices but the speeds are ramping up as slowly as a hybrid trying to get to 150mph - It takes forever. AMD will however recover, and for those of you that believe if it wasnt for ATI acqusition they would be out? I think its more like they would have stronger processors, be less behind in archetecture, dumped the manfuacturing company years ago and on par if they had NOT acquired them.
To put it plainly. AMD spread themselves thin, became bigger than they imagined and felt that since their processors in 2006 were a blowout to intel they had some time to slack.
And now they are paying for it.
Long live Chick Fil A
Dude, lets keep the site politics/religion free, doesnt contribute to anything.