Mario Rivas leaves AMD
12 May 2008 | 18:10 BST
This is getting silly
THE LATEST WORD from AMD central is that Mario Rivas, Executive VP, Computing Products Group, is no longer at the company. It seems the leaving was not his idea.
At this point, one has to question if the firings are the right thing to do. Mario was brought in in early 2007, maybe late 2006, far too late to have been responsible for Fusion or Barcelona, and likely not responsible for Bulldozer's problems either.
With the rash of firings and leavings recently, you have to wonder if management are just blaming people at AMD central, protecting the really problematic ones for some reason, or simply don't have a clue why things are going south.
In any case, they need to figure out why things are tanking, and correct them quickly. The new roadmap was a step in the right direction but firing everyone that can affect change doesn't seem to add any more confidence to the mix. µ
P.S. AMD Update om this page.
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