AMD Senior Vice President Turns to Samsung

Gao De's departure is just a microcosm of AMD’s recent loss of executives. Before Gundam, 26 managers from different levels have left AMD in recent months.

December 27, according to foreign media reports, in the latest round of chip restructuring AMD restructuring and layoffs, another senior executive resigned. Michael Goddard, who has served in AMD for 25 years, will join Samsung.

According to the information of the business social networking site LinkedIn, Gundung joined AMD in 1988. His most recent position is AMD's vice president of product design engineering and chief engineer of customer products. This month, Gundung joined Samsung as a vice president and was responsible for the system architecture at his factory in Austin, Texas.

During his tenure at AMD, Gotthard was a highly respected engineer. He worked with Dirk Meyer in the 1990s, when Medek was still an engineer and served from 2008 to 2011. AMD CEO. Goddard also worked for AMD India Design Operations for a while. Familiar with AMD's insiders, he was surprised at the departure of Djokovic and stated that he could not be driven away by AMD.

At present, Gundung has not commented on this, and AMD spokesperson has not yet commented. However, in recent industry activities, Gouda has already appeared and revealed that he has started a new job at Samsung. Gao De's departure is just a microcosm of AMD’s recent loss of executives. Before Gundam, 26 managers from different levels had left AMD in recent months, some of whom had been forced to resign in previous restructurings initiated by AMD CEO Rory Read, and some were active. Leave the job and go to a new job.

This fall, AMD announced layoffs of 15%, and it is possible to abolish more employees in 2013. There are reports that AMD is seeking a way out, either to split or sell the company, but AMD strongly denied this. Practically speaking, at present, AMD has not yet reached the point of disintegration. In August of this year, AMD hired former Apple chief chip designer Jim Keller (Jim Keller) as the vice president of global and AMD microprocessor core chief architect, last year also hired former HP executive Michael Wolf (Mike Wolfe) served as Chief Information Officer.