Mario Rivas leaves AMD
This is getting silly
THE LATEST WORD from AMD central is that Mario Rivas, Executive VP, Computing Products Group, is no longer at the company. It seems the leaving was not his idea.
At this point, one has to question if the firings are the right thing to do. Mario was brought in in early 2007, maybe late 2006, far too late to have been responsible for Fusion or Barcelona, and likely not responsible for Bulldozer's problems either.
With the rash of firings and leavings recently, you have to wonder if management are just blaming people at AMD central, protecting the really problematic ones for some reason, or simply don't have a clue why things are going south.
In any case, they need to figure out why things are tanking, and correct them quickly. The new roadmap was a step in the right direction but firing everyone that can affect change doesn't seem to add any more confidence to the mix. µ
P.S. AMD Update om this page.
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abandon ship
everyone is getting off the ship before it sinks, thats all. amd are done, finate, terminate, kaputskyAMD Management
Excuse me, Charlie, but wouldn't an Executive VP be a part (and a major part at that) of management? Who could fire him, but the President/CEO, if even that?Are you trying to lay this all at his Hectorness's door?
As Mario didn't stay long, seems to me that this is probably a situation where Mario disagreed with his Hectorness. Probably had some excellent ideas, but you know His Hectorness....
Ah, well, it was nice while it lasted. I wonder where Intel's next competitor will come from? India? China? My euros (dollars are SO worthless) are on the Middle Kingdom.
Am not a rocket scientist
Maybe AMD is sinking because it could not really afford ATI, maybe the time to have a return on the investment is too long a stretch.Additionally phenom delays and the screwed finale really bombed...
Not forgetting Intel has a superior product...
To top it off, the is a trial going on & if it goes AMD's way it will prove intel used anti competative practices...
Just a thought
Cut the fat
The funny thing is, that of all of the people leaving (being fired) none of them seem to have a direct involvement with any of the products that were succesfull or "disastrous" for AMD.I mean, it seems that it are mostly people from the "running your mouth" (and then mostly weren't even that long with AMD) department instead of "tweaking that transistor" department. So all in all people that do/did the "real" work are still there, but the money consuming "non contributors" are finally dumped.
Or in other words - Some form of intelligent fat cutting :).
All in all I dont see the dumping of those "middleman" necessarily as a bad thing.
Funny Who AMD Blames Issues On
It's funny that AMD fires many of the marketing folks but doesn't touch the enginerds who screwed the pooch. Marketing departures the last 6 months:- Henri Richard, SVP Marketing
- Bob Brewer, CVP Product Marketing
- Stephen DiFranco, CVP Channel Marketing
- Terri Hall, VP Commercial Marketing
- Ed Fisher, VP Consumer Marketing
All of the scapegoats are dead. When will the engineers pay for slippping and TLB in Barcelona?
2005 - not 2007/2006
He joined AMD in 2005.... just to be clear on the date.Great company with stupid CEO
Looks like the worst CEO in semiconductor history his Hectorness firing all people around him to keep his wallet safe. This is really ridiculous.Do you know how AMD employees calling him ? Mr. Hector Ruin. Looks like Intel and NVIDIA paying AMD money to keep this idiot in management.