AMD's Dave Orton, former ATI CEO, resigns
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Blog: The former head of ATI Technologies, acquired by AMD last year, resigns amid troubled times for the chipmaker.
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Paul Otellini, a 30-year Intel Corp. veteran who oversaw the launch of the Pentium processor in the 1990s, will replace chief executive Craig Barrett when he steps down to become chairman in May, the semiconductor giant's board of directors announced Thursday. -AP
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Private data-mining software maker scoops up Kevin Thomson, who resigned from Linux maker in July.
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CEO tells why the move to multicore chips is a necessary one, and how Intel "ate crow." Also: the Microsoft and AMD factors.
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Cisco Systems Inc.âs chief development officer and heir-apparent to C.E.O. John Chambers, resigned Thursday to join the investment firm Silver Lake Partners.
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ATI Technologies Inc. announced an integrated chipset family for the AMD Athlon 64 and Sempron procesor families on Monday, helping AMD push its 64-bit technology down into the value space.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc  , the world's second-largest maker of computer  microprocessors, on Thursday posted a wider quarterly net loss  due to a $1.68 billion charge related to its purchase of  graphics chipmaker ATI.
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The co-founder of the athletic shoe and clothing company is stepping down as president and CEO, with his resignation taking effect Dec. 28.
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The chief executive of Microsoft Corp's  Greater China business, Chen Yongzheng, has resigned, the world's largest software maker said on Wednesday.
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The founder and chief executive of Trident Microsystems, Frank C. Lin, resigned yesterday after a committee found that incorrect dates were used while awarding stock options to employees.
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Peter Moore, the head of Microsoft's gaming business, leaves to join game maker Electronic Arts.
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Phil Knight said yesterday he is resigning as president and chief executive of Nike but will remain chairman of the world&#39;s largest athletic shoe and clothing maker at a time
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AMD Chairman and CEO Hector Ruiz acknowledged Thursday that 2007 was a bad year for his company, but that didn&#39;t stop AMD&#39;s board of directors from raising his salary anyway.&quot;We blew it and we&#39;re very humbled by it and we learned from it and we&#39;re not going to do it again,&quot; Ruiz told financial analysts in New York Thursday.AMD has struggled this year, largely due to technical problems that repeatedly&#160;delayed the widespread availability of its Quad-Core Opteron chip, known as Barcelona. As a result, the company saw its financial losses mount -- $1.6 billion during the first nine months of this year -- while incurring $3.7 billion dollars in long-term debt to help keep the company&#39;s operations running.The announcement Wednesday that&#160;AMD plans to take an as-yet unspecified charge for impaired goodwill from its $5.4 billion acquisition of ATI -- recognition that the graphics-chip vendor is worth less than AMD paid for it last year -- only added to the company&#39;s financial woes and dimmed investor enthusiasm for its stock. On Dec. 13, AMD&#39;s share price closed at $8.84, down 56.2 percent from one year ago.However, those issues will not affect Ruiz&#39;s base salary, which has been increased, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission released Thursday, the same day that Ruiz apologized for the company&#39;s dismal performance.That filing, which contained a copy of Ruiz&#39;s amended employment agreement , shows AMD raised his annual base salary by 7.4 percent to $1,124,000. The amended agreement was dated Dec. 7.In 2006, Ruiz received a base salary of $1,046,358, while stock awards and other forms of compensation raised his total compensation for the year to $12,848,435.Ruiz&#39;s 2006 compensation was significantly higher than Intel CEO and President Paul Otellini, who took home a salary of $700,000 in 2006. Other awards raised Otellini&#39;s total compensation in 2006 to $9,806,400.
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Blog: Longtime exec in Austin's chip industry is heading west to take the reins at the California chipmaker.
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(InfoWorld) - Vendors in the PC and chip industries moved boldly in 2006, changing the marketplace map through mergers, recalls, layoffs and lawsuits. Oh, and they launched some impressive new products too, keeping Moore's Law moving as they built smaller, faster chips and cooler, more efficient computers. Here, in chronological order, we share a sampling of the biggest events of the past 12 months. Apple releases Macs that run on Intel chips Apple Computer Inc.Â in January sells its first Mac PCs that run on chips from Intel Corp.Â instead of IBM Corp. and Motorola Inc. chips, fulfilling a promise made in June 2005. Apple substitutes Intel's Core Duo chip for the PowerPC and G4 chips in its iMac and 15-inch MacBook Pro, soon followed by the Mac mini and 13-inch MacBook. The move also lets Apple expand from its own operating system. In April,Â Apple launches its Boot Camp software, enabling Intel-based Macs to run their choice of Apple's OS X or Microsoft Corp.'s Windows XP. AMD announces ATI acquisition Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (AMD) announces a plan in July to buy Canadian graphics chip vendor ATI Technologies Inc.Â for US$5.4 billion. Integrating its processors with ATI's chipsets would allow AMD to sell platforms of integrated technologies, competitive with Intel bundles like Centrino, Viiv and VPro, analysts say. Another effect of the merger is to leave Nvidia Corp. as the only independent graphics chip vendor in the market.Â By November, Nvidia also says it will expand, paying $357 million to buy PortalPlayer, a maker of semiconductors for digital music players. Battery recall begins Dell Inc. recalls 4.1 million notebook PC batteries in August as a growing number of customers report they could short-circuit, causing some to overheat and catch fire.Â Within days, other vendors join the recall, leading to 8.1 million recalls of the lithium ion cells manufactured by Sony Corp. Other PC vendors affected by the largest recall in consumer electronics history include Apple, Fujitsu Ltd., Hitachi Ltd., Lenovo Group Ltd. and Toshiba Corp. Intel reorganizes, lays off thousands In September, Intel lays off 10,500 workers -- about 10 percent of the workforce -- as Chief Executive Paul Otellini enacts a promised reorganization that has already included the sale of its media and signaling business, the firing of 1,000 executives, and the sale of its XScale smartphone chip division. Otellini blames slowing growth in the PC market when he predicts Intel's annual profits will reach only $9.3 billion for 2006, down from $12.1 billion in 2005. Analysts point out that Intel had also lost revenue by slashing prices on its chips in an effort to slow gains in market share by rival AMD. DOJ investigates SRAM market The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) launches a probe in October of sales practices in the SRAM (static RAM) memory chip market, serving subpoenas to Cypress Semiconductor Corp., Mitsubishi Electric Corp., Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd., Sony Electronics Inc. and Toshiba Corp. The investigation comes shortly after the DOJ wins convictions and multimillion-dollar fines for price fixing in the closely related DRAM (dynamic RAM) industry. By December, the DOJ also turns its focus to graphics chips makers, demanding documents fromÂ AMD andÂ NvidiaÂ as part of an antitrust investigation.Â Meanwhile, AMD continues another antitrust fight, continuing its long-running suit against Intel over accusations that the much larger chip-maker intimidated vendors from using AMD chips. That case is scheduled to come before a judge in April 2009. HP tops Dell as world's largest PC vendor Hewlett-Packard Co. overtakes Dell in October as the world's largest PC vendor, capping a year whenÂ Dell had reported a series of sagging profits and the start of an accounting investigation by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). HP has its own problems,Â coping with a spying scandal on its board of directorsÂ that leads to criminal investigations and the resignation of chief executive Patricia Dunn. But Dell is unable to stop its loss of market share even whenÂ the company ends its longtime allegiance to Intel and beginsÂ selling PCs powered by chips from AMD as well. Dell Chief Executive Kevin Rollins says the company was also hurt by slashing prices in order to bolster market share, and pledges to spend $100 million to hire more sales and call-center workers. Intel launches quad-core processors for mainstream computers Intel launches the first quad-core processors for mainstream desktops and servers, continuing its effort to rebound from a loss of sales to AMD. The new chips include the Core 2 Extreme QX6700 for gamers and Xeon 5300 for servers, coming just a few months after Intel launches a new family of dual-core chipsÂ including the "Conroe" Core 2 Duo for desktops andÂ "Woodcrest" Xeon 5100 for servers. Still, the arms race continues, as AMD emphasizes its advantage in power efficiency and pledges to launch its own quad-core processor by the second quarter of 2007,Â the "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron 8000 for servers.
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Venture capitalist who helped launch the computer maker in 1982 will step down in November.
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Advanced Micro Devices Inc , the world's second-largest maker of computer microprocessors, on Thursday posted a wider quarterly net loss due to a $1.68 billion charge related to its purchase of graphics chipmaker ATI.