AMD appoints HP engineering head as CIO

CHIP DESIGNER AMD has appointed Mike Wolfe as the company's CIO, responsible for the firm's global technology infrastructure.

Reporting to Thomas Seifert, SVP and CFO and interim CEO, Wolfe worked for the last five years at HP as VP of IT for product development and engineering.

Seifert said of his new employee, "his considerable talent and experience will help AMD to continue strengthening our IT infrastructure and streamline our business based on our own products and platforms."

Wolfe has a bachelor's degree in chemical engineering from the University of Alabama and a master's degree in business administration from the University of Texas at Austin. Prior to HP, Wolfe spent over 24 years at Motorola and Freescale Semiconductor, where he eventually rose to become CIO.

He was a VP and CIO for Motorola's semiconductor products sector for five years where he consolidated business and manufacturing IT functions into a single central organisation.

By consolidation The INQUIRER imagines redundancies were involved. But we doubt AMD's IT department should be worried by the reference to this apparent key experience in Chimpzilla's official statement. µ