http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...r-leave-monday
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11...d_cancels_gig/
Monday is Intel 45nm retail day too ha
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquir...r-leave-monday
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/11...d_cancels_gig/
Monday is Intel 45nm retail day too ha
Bey bye!:D
What? He ran out of more things to ruin for AMD? Atleast they get rid of his highly overpayed wage then.
Lol wow. If he does leave, I think I will go Intel then. I mean they say actions speak louder than words right? Seriously wtf.
Who was in charge before Hector? If hector screwed things up... BRING THE OLD GUY BACK!
Jerry Sanders. He did quite good to say it mildly.Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
OK. So why did Sanders leave?Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Now this is one of the most sensible and siggable comments I've seen in a long time!:up:Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
finally...
AMDs cash crisis just took a step closer to being resolved!
Age I think. He is in the 70s now if I aint mistaken.Quote:
Originally Posted by SparkyJJO
He is about the age of Dave...:ROTF:
I was born in 1952, not 1937 my friend..Where's my baseball bat?:p:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Ahh OK. So guess my comment "old guy" fits better than I thought it did!Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Ahahahaha cheap shot :rofl:Quote:
Originally Posted by Shintai
Looks like the AMD boat is sinking :wiggle:
Wow, everyone is jumping from that ship, aren't they?
Then again, I have a funny feeling these are all baseless runors.
Good Riddance.
Does that make you happy?Quote:
Originally Posted by Pacha
just a bad joke... I could have said it the way SKYMTL did. this was the idea. stop seeing troll everywhere
A moment for taking of breaths:
I think everyone on this forum, both AMD lovers and Intel lovers, wants to see AMD not only survive, but prosper.
It is in all of OUR best interests that they do so.
We will tease here and there and I'm guilty of that myself, but I truly want them to do well.
See quote in sig...
About f'ing time!
the trouble with the written word is that sarcasm/ jokes/etc dont come across so well :(
YAY AMD might actually get someone decent now :D
Id do it for £40K a year.
What does a CEO actually do? make speeches and get scape-goated? I could do that if it would help the bigger picture, sure.
Don't wanna be a "party pooper" here,but this ain't gonna happen...
far too low, they won't think you're a serious candidate! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by K404
As a shareholder, there's nothing more I'd love to see then Hector get the boot!
as much as i don't like they guy, he's obviously an overpaid sack of crap, he's not really the only reason amd is in trouble... he's just one person, he has a board of directors, so they're all to blame for stupid moves like buying ati when their product was not competitive (and i mean from a profit margin standpoint, performance itself is not as important as we at xsystems would like to believe).
their development team dropped the ball big time with the k8 replacement (i go with the theory that k10 was a rush job after the true replacement got botched)
in the end though, like an article i read a while ago said, amd has to go through this tough period to survive, because ultimately, consumer pcs are moving to system-on-a-chip design, its just natural for the industry for things to always move towards a unified chip. amd's ultimate issue is their manufacturing though, because intel always has the advantage of making their processors cheaper than the amd counterpart.
how about cevat yerli for amd? he might optimize amd-ati for crysis! then amd will definitely do well! Really inspite of intel offering great value for money and inspite we all(most) having intel-nv stuff, we all want amd to rock. Please amd, hear my call! recover form like ur previous kingness in proccys! Please!
my post sounds lame but really someone like that would do wonders to amd!
Worked for Intel
lets see if it does for AMD as well
Competition is good, I strongly hope Intel doesn't drive AMD out of our market.
Nahh...just do it for zero salary but with bonus pay and/or stock options and a bag of Phenoms. :yepp:Quote:
Originally Posted by nemrod
i certainly hope the AMD boat doesn't sink....we'd see retarded prices from Intel if it did. At least Intel is trying to put them out of business so they're being very competitive. . . for now.
If Hector leaves these are good news, indeed. Just hope AMD don't get a worst CEO.
You guys are aware of how Hector's gig prior to AMD turned out don't you? He ruined Motorola, nearly bankrupted it(dejavu.) He ran semiconductors, which was spun off becoming freescale. He steered AMD into the ground as well. Where AMD is at today was deliberate. Hector decided cpu improvment was over, which is why AMD wasn't doing it. The fly in his let them eat cake vision for consumers was Intel, who kept at it and succeeded, and here we are. Hopefully AMD will survive Hector like Motorola did, though it wasn't without cost, moto lost their cpu business.
quoted.Quote:
Originally Posted by informal
ps didn't he drive Motorola down hard also?
with hector its more like walking the plank. the company has failed miserably under his eye. He wasn't even responsible for the sucess of A64 and rather then investing the profits in R&D he ends up with a huge expensive lawsuit with intcQuote:
Originally Posted by SKYMTL
I don't know, but maybe he's finally drained enough money from AMD to buy his own secluded Island. And the Island he will dub Ha-Ha, meaning "I can't believed they paid me this much for so long" in the native tongue.
//Andreas
wow i would love to punch this guy in the face. i hope he leaves it will be a celebration!
i hope they finally get rid of this clown
Dirk Meyer.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fixxxer
This just in:
"AMD finds money to triple research and development budjet."
Hector is a worthless piece of :banana::banana::banana::banana: and I'll be glad when he's gone.
He took all Jerry worked to build up and trashed it :(
I doubt he'll leave until the lawsuit with Intel is done. It's what all the CEOs of the world wants, leave a mark/legacy before he takes off into his multi-million mansion.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=ak38mX0ckWaU
Found the link I've been looking for.
August 9, 2007
Quote:
Ruiz, 61, said Dirk Meyer, the company's chief operating officer, is being groomed to succeed him.
``The plan is that Dirk is the CEO in training,'' he said. ``He's one day going to take my place.''
i see people complaining about ruiz all the time but nobody ever gives an example of what he's done wrong. so what was it exactly?
QFT! :DQuote:
Originally Posted by fcry64
good point, i also saw noone complaining when amd "roxored" intel... :yepp:Quote:
Originally Posted by Der_KHAN
I don't think he will leave so soon, but if he does I bet he'll take several million$ with him for his well deserved early retirement. It wil be Hector's last blow to AMD
My opinion:Quote:
Originally Posted by Der_KHAN
http://www.xtremesystems.org/forums/...74#post2258874
Well i guess this is true, as last week i got to tour the AMD headquarters, heres a picture from the tour.
http://carolynbaker.net/site/images/train%20wreck.jpg
screams for a bulldozer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Spawne32
;)
Jerry Sanders was the man behind K8, which was a huge leap in performance from anything there was available.Quote:
Originally Posted by Hornet331
Hector hasn't done :banana::banana::banana::banana: for AMD. He hasn't done anything to improve their market situation or financial situation. He could have been behind the ATi buyout, which was a good thing, but I highly doubt Hector has anything to do with the price cuts, given he always has to have that giant CEO bonus every year. If I was CEO of AMD, I would sacrifice my bonus AND even my salary for good of the company, and so would most of us here.
You're not reading very carefully, and havn't been following AMD very closely. Hector decided it's "not about core anymore", "Moore's law is dead", "competing with multicore is a mistake", etc. He harped on this long and hard and the other AMD heads were parroting his talking points, along with plenty of powerpoint presentations, at developer & investor meetings, interviews, etc. He directed AMD on this path of not devoloping cpus anymore. Slight problem, he was wrong(enter Intel's core and two year cycle of improving the thing Hector & friends had been preaching about not improving anymore.) There's also the matter of the timing of buying ATI, how much they payed for it(they over payed), selling off the profitable flash business, others selloffs, layoffs of particular employees, the selloffs and layoffs done for the purpose of bolstering his bad moves so that things still look profitable or not as bad on paper.Quote:
Originally Posted by Der_KHAN
Carly Fiorina.Quote:
Originally Posted by vitaminc
I hope you're joking.Quote:
Originally Posted by iddqd
right AMD will do well with all the kids playing Crysis...Quote:
Originally Posted by fcry64
She is better than Ruiz, Meyer and even Sanders, except estrogen and HP culture don't mix well.Quote:
Originally Posted by iddqd
No kidding, that would be worse. She has a longer trail of destruction than Hector.Quote:
Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan
Hogwash, she's crap. HP is just one of the companies that turned to ash from her touch.Quote:
Originally Posted by vitaminc
Haha, :banana::banana::banana::banana:ing finally.
It's completely asinine how one person, the CEO, can strip a company from what it once was. K8 and a top place in the market turns to struggling R&D and only low prices to compete. It's a shame, it's a damn shame. I don't see how AMD can come back within a few years unless they REALLY turn it around...my Opteron box might be worth something for nostalgia reasons...
At least Ruiz had the balls to do what was right and put and end to the monopoly abuse, and rightly bring a lawsuit against the responsible party. Had it not been for that action, I strongly believe AMD would have nowhere near the market penetration it has now. Have a look at how many motherboards are launching with Phenom. Now look back a few years and have a gander at how many launched with K8. Hector made the right moves with AMD to stay not only competitive, but in business.
Then again, maybe that's the root of all the finger pointing. After all, North of 10,000 people had to seek alternate employment because of the drive for a fair market, surely many of them hang on forums such as these. :shrug: Cuz surely all the haters don't expect people to believe that they have the knowledge to even access what moves a CEO of multi-billion dollor coorportation should make. Smells like part of an ongoing propoganda campaign to me (or anti-propoganda, depending on how one looks at it).
sucks to be Hector
HP was dying, and will die if she did not initiate the painful process of acquiring compaq.Quote:
Originally Posted by keiths
Which is it? Already dieing or mismatch with her estrogen? And the companies before HP in which the same fate befell them? They were also already dieing/estrogen problems? Yeah, it's everyone else, not her..Quote:
Originally Posted by vitaminc
bad time to be having a stock with AMD unless something drastic happens soon
I bet if Hector does leave on Monday the stock is going to go up nicely.
Be funny if that turns out to be trueQuote:
Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan
how about loading the company heavily on debt just before the onset of a price war? 1/2 of gross profits go straight to interest payments. how is that not a screw up?Quote:
Originally Posted by Der_KHAN
can you back that up with some sources? i'm not questioning what you say but i'd like to get the bigger picture.Quote:
Originally Posted by keiths
well the way i see it a semiconductor company has to make inredibly huge investments to keep there products competitive. and if you have competition like intel with way more resources for research and markteting these investments may very well exceed your profits.Quote:
Originally Posted by zabomb4163
i mean with the first athlon amd has had a better product at lower prices for years but they were still making losses.
http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquir...s-no-core-wars
Here's one kinda
why did they put Ruiz (might not be a coincident that it's close to ruin) in charge anyway? and why does he get such a big salary?
it's always that way. some stupid managers ruin companies, leave, get a :banana::banana::banana::banana:load of money up their ass and get a job at another company.
and the only ones who have to pay for that are the employees (and the customers of course) :down:
there are even insurances that cover management mistakes...
what has to happen until they change this? when will they finally be paid based on the companies success?
"No core wars?"Quote:
Originally Posted by red
http://www.businessweek.com/technolo...605_019097.htm
"They have a better core, but I think what's happening is the battle is no longer about the core."
And for chock full of gems, look up AMD Analyst Day 2006, Dec 14, 2006.
AMD don't have that kind of money :ROTF:Quote:
Originally Posted by K404
Ruiz was Jerry's right hand man, but now we've found out Ruiz has blown it all up. Ruiz had the perfect opportunity to take advantage of AMD's huge performance advantage over Intel, but all he did was sit on his ass. The Intel discounts did have something to do with it (Dell admitted to it) for market share, but AMD could have opened up business with HP a lot earlier, thus improving market share. They could have started marketing like they SHOULD have, but I guess Hector thought it wasn't worth it.Quote:
Originally Posted by FischOderAal
Looks like even Hector is leaving the sinking ship
If you liken AMD to the Titanic, Hector is the iceberg.Quote:
Originally Posted by happychappy
rofl excellent example! must remember to sig that :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Zytek_Fan
well, monday comes in less than 12 hours now, I guess we'll be finding out very soon whether or not the rumor is true
Great to see
Whatever AMD needs to get back on track.....If they can get competitive again, we all win, even if you're an exclusive user of Intel.
Think its safe to say:
http://www.leftbanker.com/uploaded_i...aha-715091.jpg
... not going to happen.
What a shame:(
hmm can anyone get his email adress so we can all send him hate mail :)
Hrmm. Guess i'll hold on a bit longer.