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AMD's chief technology officer, Phil Hester, has resigned his post atop the company's engineering efforts.
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Former AMD CTO Phil Hester
(Credit: AMD)According to a flash report from The Wall Street Journal, Hester will not be replaced. More details are expected soon. A link to Hester's biography off AMD's executive Web page defaults back to the home page.
Hester came to AMD from IBM in September of 2005, when the chipmaker was flying high on the success of its Opteron server processor. He's leaving at a low point for AMD, having presided over the debacle that was AMD's quad-core server processor, Barcelona. Barcelona finally became available in mass quantities this week after a year of delays caused by technical glitches and design issues.
AMD announced plans to lay off 10 percent of its workforce earlier in the week after also relaying the news of a revenue shortfall. |
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