Dave Orton to leave AMD - bit-tech.net Forums

Tim S · 10th Jul 2007, 19:39

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2007/07...to_leave_amd/1

In a rather bizarre and unexpected announcement, AMD has revealed that former ATI president and CEO, Dave Orton, will leave AMD after just nine months.

DXR_13KE · 10th Jul 2007, 19:59

i find this strange to... i don't know what to make of this... was this merge so damaging? the R600 is far from what i was expecting from it.

Amon · 10th Jul 2007, 20:01

We need more competitors in the graphics arena. Hopefully he improvises a group to found a successful competing company since he was the COO during the 9700 Pro era.

DougEdey · 10th Jul 2007, 20:10

I'm interested to see if he had a golden goodbye. It'll be worth watching the business pages for a while to see what their take is on this. Though I think that (personally) it's because of poor team management and to cut costs, I reckon that Bergman has known about this for a while and has been trained by Orton about what to do. Why would you have Orton and Bergman both reporting to AMD CEO at the same time?

Could this be the sign of an imminent big shake up? I think so, AMD (Toronto) are advertising for more Driver Developers (I've applied personally for when I finish my degree).

Amon · 10th Jul 2007, 20:11

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Originally Posted by DougEdey

Could this be the sign of an imminent big shake up? I think so, AMD (Toronto) are advertising for more Driver Developers (I've applied personally for when I finish my degree).

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Woodstock · 10th Jul 2007, 21:08

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I believe AMD will continue to move forwards.

i sure hope they do

yakyb · 10th Jul 2007, 23:56

hmm i know that intel have plenty of their own people but maybe intel could offer him a role in their GPU department (in which they are trying to grow) this could potentially improve intel's tech and produce the much needed third runner in the GPU market

Spaceraver · 11th Jul 2007, 00:03

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Originally Posted by yakyb

hmm i know that intel have plenty of their own people but maybe intel could offer him a role in their GPU department (in which they are trying to grow) this could potentially improve intel's tech and produce the much needed third runner in the GPU market

that would be like sleeping with your best enemy TBH. and you dont think they have a contract saying that he cant do that??

ZERO <ibis> · 11th Jul 2007, 01:13

It is because he is a baby, just took him 9 months first.

Or he is pregnant.

Dr. Strangelove · 11th Jul 2007, 12:22

It was probably all planed from the start, can't have too many alpha males in a company... he will probably be getting a large LARGE sum of money, hence the mixed feelings

leaving ATI = sad feeling, large LARGE sum of money = laughing all the way to the bank

Fiber4now · 12th Jul 2007, 00:02

Why Orton would leave, well why did AMD force the launch of the HD2900 XT without independent L1 cache for 320 streaming units and then tell everyone that would listen that this was not done in desperation, taking the X1900 Cache hierarchy and putting it on the next generation R600 but was done in order to target the middle income gamer. Good luck Mr. Orton under your rule before AMD launches may have been late on occasion but at least they where competitive in every segment.

SPQQKY · 12th Jul 2007, 02:56

This is no surprise really, typical corporate action. He has probably seen it coming for a while. Same thing happened to my father....they brought in a young guy with a new title and less pay and once he got the hang of things, bye bye to the older, more experienced and higher paid individual. Happened to my uncle as well, he was in charge of all of ComEds networking and once he got their big mess fixed, they dumped him and hired some young guy to simply do maintanance.

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10th Jul 2007, 19:59	#2
DXR_13KE Madeira's banana is the best!!! Join Date: Sep 2005 Location: Madeira ; Portugal Posts: 6,476	i find this strange to... i don't know what to make of this... was this merge so damaging? the R600 is far from what i was expecting from it. __________________ *Renegade X - 0.40 Release!* <---- CLICK!

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10th Jul 2007, 20:10	#4
DougEdey I pwn all your storage Join Date: Jul 2005 Location: Southampton Posts: 13,933	I'm interested to see if he had a golden goodbye. It'll be worth watching the business pages for a while to see what their take is on this. Though I think that (personally) it's because of poor team management and to cut costs, I reckon that Bergman has known about this for a while and has been trained by Orton about what to do. Why would you have Orton and Bergman both reporting to AMD CEO at the same time? Could this be the sign of an imminent big shake up? I think so, AMD (Toronto) are advertising for more Driver Developers (I've applied personally for when I finish my degree). __________________ Burnout: Paradise Stats!XBL: DougEdey Bindi PSN ID: DougEdey Twitter

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11th Jul 2007, 12:22	#10
Dr. Strangelove Supermodder Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Dundee Posts: 306	It was probably all planed from the start, can't have too many alpha males in a company... he will probably be getting a large LARGE sum of money, hence the mixed feelings leaving ATI = sad feeling, large LARGE sum of money = laughing all the way to the bank __________________ If it isn’t broken, fix it. If it is broken, mod it till it looks like it's meant to be broken.

12th Jul 2007, 00:02	#11
Fiber4now Don't feed the trolls Join Date: Jan 2007 Posts: 27	Why Orton would leave, well why did AMD force the launch of the HD2900 XT without independent L1 cache for 320 streaming units and then tell everyone that would listen that this was not done in desperation, taking the X1900 Cache hierarchy and putting it on the next generation R600 but was done in order to target the middle income gamer. Good luck Mr. Orton under your rule before AMD launches may have been late on occasion but at least they where competitive in every segment.

12th Jul 2007, 02:56	#12
SPQQKY Evil Modder Join Date: Jul 2007 Location: Dark Forest, IL Posts: 509	This is no surprise really, typical corporate action. He has probably seen it coming for a while. Same thing happened to my father....they brought in a young guy with a new title and less pay and once he got the hang of things, bye bye to the older, more experienced and higher paid individual. Happened to my uncle as well, he was in charge of all of ComEds networking and once he got their big mess fixed, they dumped him and hired some young guy to simply do maintanance.