At the end of AMD Senior Vice President, President, Greater China, after leaving Karen Guo, AMD re-exposed personnel earthquake.
U.S. time on Monday, AMD announced that president and CEO Dirk Meyer (Dirk Meyer) has resigned from the Board. The company CFO Thomas Saifei Special (Thomas Seifert) will serve as interim CEO.AMD will set up a committee to search for new CEO candidates.
the resignation of Dirk Meyer, the market was very unexpected. But look at AMD's official statement, apparently Dirk Meyer, AMD hopes to However, the industry look to the face of a powerful rival of Intel, who can take on this task?
Lightning Dirk Meyer, resigned
Dirk Meyer's resignation is not the slightest sign of advance. News is that AMD announced suddenly on Monday, local time, and pointed out that the decision to resign with immediate effect. AMD CFO Thomas Saifei transition CEO.AMD also set up specially by the Chairman Kefu Lin (Bruce Claflin) led the committee to begin search for new CEO candidates. Kefu Lin was appointed as executive chairman at the same time to assume more control in the interim responsibility. Se Feite will continue as CFO, he was not considered for the permanent CEO position.
served from 2008 Dirk Meyer, AMD's chief executive officer. During his tenure as chief executive in November 2009, AMD and Intel antitrust settlement was reached, access to Intel's 1.25 billion payment, AMD smoothly with the sum of income profitability, and to some extent restored financial foundation.
tenure for the performance of Dirk Meyer, AMD chairman of Kefu Lin evaluation noted that: decision-making, successfully reached a settlement agreement with Intel, and the Fusion APU market. AMD said in a statement: pace. Long-term cooperation with AMD, Microsoft officials said Rahul Sood, Dirk Meyer, a totally unexpected resignation of the news; U.S. investment bank Wedbush analyst Patrick Wang said, Select departure is a surprise
a statement issued from AMD can be seen to promote Dirk Meyer, Analysts generally agreed that, AMD Board of Directors of the companies in the mobile device market, the slow pace of development and Dirk Meyer, the goal dissatisfaction.
Dirk Meyer, last week's CES show in Las Vegas, said company for the Tablet PC and smart phone market is not particularly interested, because this market less profitable. Which is in the market, throw off the arm of its rival Intel is big (Intel recently started to enter the Tablet PC chip market), and Apple is accomplished in the field dominance.
While AMD announced the preliminary reported a fourth quarter, AMD fourth-quarter revenue growth of about 2% of the chain, to 16.5 billion U.S. dollars, slightly more than market expectations. However, the losses have been sustained in the competition to AMD in a very passive position. Last year's second quarter, AMD net loss of $ 43,000,000; third quarter loss of 118 million U.S. dollars.
for AMD who will have to find a suitable successor is very difficult. No matter who becomes a successor, must fight the battle Fusion chips. The chip will be in the near future for PC products.
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