Hector Ruiz, the former chairman and CEO of AMD who was alleged to have leaked information in the insider trading scandal surrounding the Galleon hedge fund probe, will resign his chairman position at Globalfoundaries, a semiconductor manufacturing company jointly owned by AMD and the government of […] Read more »
Confession: Back when AMD was pitching its Opteron chipset, I convinced my husband to buy shares in the company on the belief that its plans to build a backwards compatible 64-bit processor was so obviously better than Intel’s efforts with Itanium that the market would eventually […] Read more »