Mario Rivas, chief of AMD's computing solutions group, and Michel Cadieux, head of human resources, have parted ways with AMD, according to the chip maker. AMD has had some notable losses on the executive front in the past year. Rivas and Cadieux join former CTO Phil Hester, who left last month, and ex-sales chief Henri Richard and Visual Media Business chief Dave Orton, both of whom departed late last summer.

AMD has suffered losses in six straight quarters and last month announced layoffs of about 1,600 workers from 16,800 worldwide, to be completed by the end of the third quarter of this year. It was not clear whether Rivas' and Cadieux's departures would count towards the downsizing total. AMD has stated that Hester's exit was not part of the layoffs. Randy Allen, GM of AMD's server/workstation division, appears to be Rivas' successor as head of the computing solutions group. Allen, who last week delivered a major update to AMD's server roadmap, has been named senior vice president of the computing solutions group and will report directly to AMD president and COO Dirk Meyer. Allen Sockwell has been named head of human resources.

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Quote this comment Reply to this comment #1 Posted by Kushan on 13 May 2008 - 14:43
Lets hope this turns the tide around for AMD so we can have some real competition from them.
Intel's latest chips have been great, so imagine what would happen if AMD pumped out something better.
Likewise, we need them to give nVidia a kick up the arse so we get another revolutionary generation from them instead of a re-jigged card from the previous generation.
(1 reply) Quote this comment Reply to this comment #2 Posted by Magallanes on 13 May 2008 - 16:05
Usually, when people think of IT executives, they resemblance to a Steve Jobs or a Bill Gates but almost everytime IT executives are:


Quote this comment #2.1 Posted by toadeater on 14 May 2008 - 04:50
It's too bad that Steve Ballmer and Ray Ozzie aren't going with them.
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