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Mario Rivas (pictured), formerly Executive Vice President, Computing
Solutions Group and Michel Cadieux, formerly Senior Vice President and
Chief Talent Officer, have left AMD to pursue new opportunities,
according to the Company, as part of a wider transformation of the
struggling microprocessor and graphics chip set producer. AMD said that
a new Centralized Engineering organization has been created that will
be co-led by Chekib Akrout, who is joining AMD from Freescale
Semiconductor, where he was Vice President of Design Technology and
Jeff VerHeul, Corporate Vice President of design engineering at AMD.
The Central Engineering leadership team will direct the development and
execution of AMD's technology and product roadmaps and will report
directly to Dirk Meyer, AMD’s President and COO.
In his new role
as Senior Vice President, Computing Solutions Group, Randy Allen will
now report directly Dirk Meyer. Allen is a twenty-four year veteran at
AMD.
Allen Sockwell, who worked with Meyer previously, takes
on the role left by Cadieux. Sockwell will now report directly to Meyer
as the new Chief Talent Officer.