Thursday, January 13, 2011

AMD CEO departure from the Board of mass dissatisfaction with its mobile business strategy

 IDG (clear rain) Beijing January 12, according to foreign media reports, the computer chip maker AMD CEO Dirk Meyer (Dirk Meyer) The sudden departure of the industry led to speculation. However, sources from within AMD said Dirk Meyer, before leaving in a few months, some members of the Board of Directors on business strategy Dirk Meyer expressed concern that they believe that insufficient efforts to Dirk Meyer, AMD into the explosive growth mobile market.

in with Dirk Meyer, AMD surprise announcement of the termination board reached a Company sources also noted that some of the reasons for leaving Dirk Meyer, the board dissatisfaction with the existing business strategy related to AMD, the company's directors believe that, AMD should give priority to provide chips for the mobile market, not the priority of developing Internet chip.

last October, said Dirk Meyer told analysts, even as Apple iPad tablet that weakened the market demand for notebook computers, AMD will continue to invest in mobile devices, microprocessors postponed until the development of this market to be even greater. At present, AMD's business remains focused on production for the PC and server chips, so that direct the formation of larger rival Intel competition.

brokerage Wedbush analyst Patrick Wang (Patrick Wang) said: the development of computers and smart phones. Intel and AMD x86 processors sold, tablet PCs and smart phones is a major feature is the use of more energy-efficient chips. X86 processor over the years has been the most widely used computer processors.

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