Another Loss at A.M.D. Leads to Chief’s Ouster

AMD の Hector Ruiz が赤字の責任をとって辞任。

After the seventh consecutive quarterly loss at Advanced Micro Devices, the company’s board ousted Hector Ruiz as chief executive and replaced him with Dirk Meyer, a star engineering executive at the company.

A talented chip designer who had led an earlier turnaround of A.M.D.’s technology, Mr. Meyer, 46, had already been designated by Mr. Ruiz as his successor, but the timing of the transition on Thursday came as a surprise to industry executives and analysts.

Mr. Meyer, president and chief operating officer, is widely respected and admired by other A.M.D. technical employees and also has the confidence of Wall Street analysts.

次の CEO は Intel 出身者。

Mr. Meyer began his career at Intel, and he also designed advanced microprocessors at the Digital Equipment Corporation. He joined A.M.D. in 1995, and was responsible for the Athlon processor family there, a bold gamble that began an era in which the smaller company proved more innovative and quicker than Intel, the dominant force in the industry.