25-year AMD VP of Product Design heads over to Samsung
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Advanced Micro Devices will not look back on 2012 as a good year. The troubled chip-maker has been hurting for cash, and its core business has been weakening against competitors like Intel. AMD has cut back its workforce, with more cuts expected in 2013, and a number of executives have left the company (some by choice, others by circumstance).
Whatever strategic decisions AMD looks to make to bolster its bottom line product-wise, it is going to be doing so without a long time veteran of the company, Michael Goddard. This exit from AMD apparently surprised a lot of people. Goddard departed AMD after 25 years and joined Samsung where he has taken on a role as a VP and system architect at Samsung’s offices in Austin, Texas.
Word in the media is that Goddard is a highly respected engineer, and worked at various AMD operations all over the world. It looks like Samsung was able to acquire some good talent. While the current troubles AMD is experiencing appear to spell “doom and gloom,” the company has been making power plays of its own, by recently hiring Jim Keller who was a head chip designer at Apple, and its CIO, Michael Wolfe from Hewlett-Packard.
source: AllThingsD
Whatever strategic decisions AMD looks to make to bolster its bottom line product-wise, it is going to be doing so without a long time veteran of the company, Michael Goddard. This exit from AMD apparently surprised a lot of people. Goddard departed AMD after 25 years and joined Samsung where he has taken on a role as a VP and system architect at Samsung’s offices in Austin, Texas.
Word in the media is that Goddard is a highly respected engineer, and worked at various AMD operations all over the world. It looks like Samsung was able to acquire some good talent. While the current troubles AMD is experiencing appear to spell “doom and gloom,” the company has been making power plays of its own, by recently hiring Jim Keller who was a head chip designer at Apple, and its CIO, Michael Wolfe from Hewlett-Packard.
source: AllThingsD
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8 Comments
1. Cynipap999 (banned) posted on 26 Dec 2012, 20:43 5 3
Samsung knows talent when it sees it!!
4. AnTuTu posted on 26 Dec 2012, 21:07 4 1
Yay great for Sammy :) just see the processor power of Samsung in near future :)
3. jameshoe posted on 26 Dec 2012, 20:58 3 1
World War 2 is over, but Phone War 2 is just the beginning
5. tedkord posted on 26 Dec 2012, 22:09 3 0
We really don't want AMD to disappear, or its back to $500 for the bottom rung processor.
Its a shame. For a short while there, AMD cpus were better than Intel offerings. (Athlon, Thunderbird)
6. mrllano posted on 26 Dec 2012, 23:52 0 0
There's a lot of great people out there.. I'm sure AMD can get back on the game.
7. XperiaPrince posted on 27 Dec 2012, 03:31 0 2
I wish samsung will get a designer from sony :p
8. archangel9 posted on 27 Dec 2012, 17:41 0 0
I love AMD for their processors are better than Intel but even better for Samsung .they really need team up
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