Monday, April 14, 2008
AMD said Friday that senior VP and chief technology officer Phil Hester has resigned. Hester is the third senior executive to leave AMD in less than a year.
Hester's resignation was not related to a recent financial warning from AMD, a company spokesman said. AMD said earlier it would reduce its workforce of 16,000 by about 10% and said revenue in the first quarter fell 15% from the fourth quarter of last year.
"He's pursuing other opportunities," the spokesman said of Hester. "He has not disclosed his future plans."
Hester, a 23-year IBM veteran who joined AMD in 2005, was in charge of the overall technical direction of AMD, as well as establishing the processes for recruiting, retaining, and promoting engineers, the spokesman said. On the technical side, Hester was in charge of bringing AMD's next-generation microprocessor, called Fusion, to market in the second half of next year.
Fusion, which AMD is calling an "accelerated processing unit," combines a graphics processor and a CPU on the same piece of silicon. The company is marketing the chips as a new class of x86 processing.
Mike Uhler, former CTO of chipmaker MIPS Technologies and VP of accelerated computing at AMD, will take full responsibility of Fusion and report directly to Dirk Meyer, president and chief operating officer of AMD, the spokesman said.
By: DocMemory
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