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AMD's Rivas and = Cadieux=20
Leave in Reshuffling Move

By DON=20 CLARK
May 13,=20 2008; Page B8

Advanced=20 Micro Devices Inc. said two senior executives have left the = company as=20 part of a management reshuffling that includes new leadership of = the chip=20 maker's engineering efforts.

Mario Rivas, who had been executive vice = president of AMD's=20 computing solutions group, and Michel Cadieux, formerly senior = vice=20 president and chief talent officer, have left AMD to "pursue new=20 opportunities," the company said. A spokesman said they weren't = available=20 for comment, and they couldn't be reached.

The company has been struggling to rebound from = the late=20 arrival of a line of chips, code-named Barcelona, which was = exacerbated by=20 a technical glitch that had to be fixed after the product line was = announced last September. AMD said last month it plans to jettison = 10% of=20 its work force, or about 1,600 workers, and is believed to be = negotiating=20 deals that will allow it to outsource some of its chip = manufacturing to=20 other companies.

AMD, based in Sunnyvale, Calif., has lost some = other senior=20 executives in the past year. For example, Phil Hester resigned as = senior=20 vice president and chief technology officer last month; last = summer, sales=20 chief Henri Richard left to take a job at Freescale=20 Inc.

As part of the latest changes, Randy Allen, a = senior vice=20 president, was given broader authority over the company's computer = solutions group. He had previously managed chips for servers and=20 workstations, and oversaw microprocessor engineering.

The company said it was establishing a new = centralized=20 engineering organization. Its leaders will be Chekib Akrout, a = veteran of=20 Freescale and International=20 Business Machines Corp. who is joining AMD, and Jeff VerHeul,=20 corporate vice president of design engineering at AMD, who joined = the=20 company in 2005 from IBM.

Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and chief operating = officer,=20 said the company is accelerating a transformation that will = reshape its=20 organization and bolster its management team. "Placing experienced = leaders=20 in new, more focused roles will enhance our execution and progress = towards=20 sustained profitability and long-term success," Mr. Meyer said in = prepared=20 remarks.

Roger Kay, an analyst at Endpoint Technologies = Associates,=20 interpreted the latest changes as a sign that AMD is restructuring = the=20 company from top to bottom. "They are offering the remaining = employees new=20 jobs," he said. "Some of them don't fit the new jobs that = well."

Write to Don Clark at don.clark@wsj.com

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