Father of Athlon 64 leaves AMD
Fred Weber, the chief technology officer at Advanced Micro Devices and one of the executives often cited as being behind the company's turnaround, is leaving to invest in start-ups.
Meanwhile, Phil Hester, who co-founded Opteron server manufacturer Newisys and spent more than two decades at IBM, will be taking over the CTO spot at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD. Hester starts Monday.
The departure is amiable, according to AMD and one analyst, and probably not much will change with AMD's technological direction.
