AMD despatched out a press launch earlier as we speak confirming that Rick Bergman has rejoined the corporate after eight years as president and CEO of Synaptics. He was, because the grizzled veterans of TechPowerUp might recall, with the AMD/ATI conglomeration for a decade earlier than then. Rick, in AMD’s personal phrases, “brings extensive semiconductor experience, a deep technology understanding from a platform and product perspective, and extensive general management experience” and can take over because the exterior VP of Computing and Graphics from Sandeep Chennakeshu, who leaves AMD on the finish of August after a brief stint with the corporate for unnamed causes.
