Uh-Oh....

http://semiaccurate.com/2011/09/22/a...-bergman-gone/

http://techreport.com/discussions.x/21697



http://hardocp.com/news/2011/09/22/a..._cloud_mystery

AMD Fires Rick Bergman Under Cloud of Mystery

Rick Bergman, Senior Vice President and General Manager at AMD has been fired according to HardOCP sources. AMD has given no reason as to why the well seasoned Bergman was leaving his position. It was told to us that Bergman had interviewed for the just-filled CEO position months back at AMD and had been turned down. Since then we have been lead to understand that AMD has lowered the boom on Bergman for not managing the GlobalFoundries relationship properly. Sources tell us that GlobalFoundries is simply not up to the task of supplying AMD its needed parts and Bergman is first in line when it comes to the responsibility of making sure AMD is sourced properly. We understand that Bergman will be the first of the dominoes to fall.

Rick Bergman is senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s products group, with responsibility for delivering AMD’s computing platforms and managing the graphics and microprocessor product development teams.

I first met Rick a bit over 10 years ago. Rick was a hell of a nice guy and we wish him the best.
http://www.amd.com/us/aboutamd/corpo...k-bergman.aspx

Executive Biography

Rick Bergman
Senior Vice President and General Manager, AMD

Rick Bergman is senior vice president and general manager of AMD’s products group, with responsibility for delivering AMD’s computing platforms and managing the graphics and microprocessor product development teams.

Bergman’s previous role at AMD was senior vice president and general manager, Graphics Product Group (GPG), which he held from October 2006 to May 2009. In that role Bergman was responsible for the worldwide management of AMD’s discrete graphics products, including the company’s industry-leading ATI Radeon™ family of graphics processors for the desktop, workstation, notebook, multimedia and game console markets. In that capacity, Bergman oversaw business operations, engineering and marketing, as well as iconic achievements such as the first DirectX® 10.1 GPU, the first TeraFLOPS-class GPU and the first GPUs on 65nm, 55nm, and 40nm process nodes.

Bergman came to AMD via the acquisition of ATI in October 2006. He joined ATI in January 2001 from S3 Graphics, a division of SonicBlue Inc., where he served as chief operating officer.

Over the past 15 years, Bergman has served in a number of marketing and management roles within the North American technology industry, including vice president of marketing at Exponential Inc. and marketing manager at Texas Instruments, Inc. He began his engineering career at IBM Corp.

Bergman holds a Bachelor of Science degree in electrical engineering from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Colorado.