Following close behind the offloading of two other senior executives, California-based Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), has parted ways with Phillip D. Hester, its leading chief technology officer.
AMD bids farewell to its global CTO. Credit: AMD.
Second only to Intel Corp in the chip-making industry, AMD has said that Hester (52) has left the renowned processor manufacturer in order to “pursue other opportunities.”
Moreover, AMD has also said that Hester has not revealed his future ambitions and that it has no plans to continue his individual position.
“We don’t have any plans to continue that global CTO position,” outlined AMD spokesman Drew Prairie, who also said that Hester’s departure is not related to the 10 percent job cuts (approximately 1,650 positions) announced by the company last week.
According to Prairie, the corporate responsibilities left open by Hester’s departure -- he served his final day on Friday -- will now be shared out between the other remaining CTOs of AMD’s individual business unit.
While far from a definitive reason for his resignation, Hester leaves the company after five consecutive quarterly market share dips registered against Intel Corp. and successive technical hiccups related to the development and integration of AMD’s ‘Barcelona’ server processor technology.
Hester’s departure comes after AMD similarly lost the head of its graphics unit David Orton in the July of 2007, as well as its sales chief Henri Richard in September the following September.
Prior to serving as AMD’s global CTO, Hester worked at server chipset start-up Newisys as well as being a longstanding IBM veteran.
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