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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles Tutt who wrote (65315)	7/14/1999 6:58:00 PM
From: Mani1	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574179

Hello folks, just got back yesterday a little ahead of time, here is a bit from AMD's web-site: ***************************** SUNNYVALE, CA JULY 14, 1999--AMD today announced that S. Atiq Raza has resigned his positions of president, chief operating officer and chief technical officer for personal reasons. Raza also resigned his seat on AMD's board of directors. Raza will begin a personal leave of absence on Monday, July 19, and will be assessing a possible future role with AMD. "My decision to leave AMD was a difficult one," Raza said. "I have enjoyed the challenges of helping to restore competition in the microprocessor market. With the introduction of the AMD Athlon™ processor family, I believe AMD is in a much stronger competitive position. AMD has an outstanding processor team in place, and I am confident that there will be no loss of momentum as a result of my departure. I'm leaving AMD at this time for personal reasons, but I look forward to having conversations with Jerry as we seek to determine how I might be able to contribute to AMD's future success." W.J. Sanders III, AMD's chairman and chief executive officer, will temporarily act as president, COO and CTO. "I am personally saddened by Atiq's departure," Sanders said. "Atiq did a stellar job of bringing the AMD-K6® family of processors to market. His leadership on the development of the highest performance processor in the market for Microsoft® Windows® computing, the AMD Athlon microprocessor, was exemplary. Atiq has been instrumental in establishing processes that have greatly improved AMD's operational capabilities and he has contributed substantially to increasing the effectiveness of our technical community. I deeply appreciate Atiq's many achievements and wish him well in future endeavors. We are looking forward to a possible continuing relationship." *************************** Mani