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

To: Saturn V who wrote (145565)	4/19/2002 5:58:37 PM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574595

Saturn, Andreas posted the following on the censored thread, with some other details: Fired Advanced Micro Executive Alleges Anti-Arab Discrimination quote.bloomberg.com. I might have misunderstood that but didn't Jerry also made a "racist" comment on the CC (something along the lines that Asians are not smart enough to buy AMD processors)? Have to wait for the transcript to be sure. By Pham-Duy Nguyen San Jose, California, April 19 (Bloomberg) -- An Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s senior vice president alleges he was fired because of his Arab heritage and Muslim religion in a lawsuit against the world's second-largest maker of semiconductor chips. Walid Maghribi said he was fired after AMD's Chief Executive Jerry Sanders learned he wasn't a Lebanese Christian, according to a lawsuit filed yesterday in U.S. District Court in San Jose, California. ``In a face-to-face conversation with corporate directors and a group vice president in attendance, the CEO said, among other things, I thought you were a Lebanese Christian!''' Maghribi said in his suit. During the same conversation, Sanders allegedly said, ```But you are not an Arab, right?''' Sunnyvale, California-based AMD said one of its fundamental policies is respect for all people. ``We have a long and unblemished record of hiring and retaining people based totally on merit,'' said AMD's spokeswoman Olga Flores Finnerman. The company plans to vigorously contest the suit, she said. Maghribi, who worked at AMD for 16 years, seeks damages and compensation for ``lost wages, benefits, promotional opportunities'' among other things. Sanders, 65, is scheduled to retire as AMD's CEO next week. He has been chairman and CEO of the company since it was founded in 1969. Maghribi formerly reported to Sanders successor, Hector Ruiz, AMD's chief operating officer.