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Re: The funny thing is, that the people in that list were all very "fresh" AMD/ATi employees and/or were never part of (or responsible for) previous successes and/or failures from AMD.

It seems that way. How did they all make it up to executive management? Doesn't AMD ever promote their own?

Re: Furthermore it seems to me (but that may just be my imagination) that some K7 involved (lead)people are placed in the vacant spots.

Maybe they should have done this several years ago. I found it interesting looking into the backgrounds of some of the execs on that list. Henri Richard came from WebGain, Inc in 2002, a company I'd never heard of. Mario Rivas joined from Philips Semiconductor in 2005. Phil Hester was a co-founder of Newisys (originally from IBM??).

Dave Orton obviously was CEO of ATI, and it's easy to speculate about his story, but as for the others (those that had enough info out there to Google), it seems that AMD assembled a ragtag bunch with questionable levels of experience, and decided to let them run the company. Another example of AMD Innovation...?

Maybe it's the reason AMD is in this mess.