Good read

http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news....aspx?pageid=0
"There are more people like me at AMD that want to go and fight from an engineering perspective in the same spirit of the old Jerry Sanders days. We don't want an AMD that is going off and writing blogs about transparency and fluff, while engineers are frustrated. Engineers are not getting the resources they need, we're not getting the time and the investment we to build and optimize new architectures.



Instead, they feed marketing fluff and kool-aid, and all these self-centered blogs - instead of focusing on doing what we know how to do best. Fight, survive and challenge against all odds.



Thankfully, we'll have a new CEO soon and hopefully all this strategy nonsense will be out the door."
"Many of our best engineers are leaving to join companies like Apple, Freescale, Qualcomm, Samsung even NVIDIA and Intel - people that thought they would never work for another company.



Look at AMD's history - how we beat Intel Pentium III, which was based on one of the best CPU architectures of all time - the Pentium Pro - and we beat the them with the K7 (original Athlon). Look at K8, 64-bit innovation and the integrated memory controller. Look at how ATI came back from the brink and beat by NVIDIA soundly with R300 and took performance leadership across the board.



We created the netbook in OLPC project with Nicholas Negroponte when everybody was laughing at him and then gave the whole market to Intel. We were shipping millions of graphics chips for cellphones and were in TVs long before today’s leaders. We know how to win."