Replies to post #62744 on Intel Corp (INTC)

[mas]

http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/12/dirk-tells-troops-happening
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/05/12/amd-does-execu-shuffle

[wbmw]

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.

[tecate]

But - it does nothing for the morale of your true 'key' people. the designers, developers, programmers, librarians, back end guys, test, simulation.. when you see so many high level people leave... it does not give you 'faith' that your management is competent. Basically no one cares if a bunch of vps leave, they are really only important to themselves, wtf do they really do? not much.. but when they start firing/letting go their own, you could be next and it isn't the kind of environment I'd want to servicing in.

Maybe since they are all 'new' they can see a sinking ship much better than the veterans.