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Contacted Wednesday AMD spokesmen declined to comment about reports that the company's top sales and marketing executive Henri Richard has resigned but said they planned to issue a statement about him later in the day.
Technology news Web site Hexus.net first reported that Richard whose official title is executive vice president and chief sales and marketing officer has resigned.
Richard has led AMD's marketing efforts since 2002 spanning an era when the company won market share from rival Intel Corp. acquired graphics card vendor ATI Technologies entered a price war with Intel and -- most recently -- posted a series of deep financial losses.
On July 19 AMD announced a net loss of US$600 million for its second quarter following a loss of $611 million for the first quarter and $574 million for the fourth quarter of 2006. In an effort to balance those losses AMD said in April that it planned to raise $2.2 billion by selling its debt as convertible notes to institutional investors.
Richard's reported:-)Linkleri Üyelerimiz Görebilir. UslanmaM Üyeliği İçin Tıklayın the former chief executive of ATI who worked as an executive vice president at AMD for just nine months after the companies merged.
One of Richard's strengths at AMD is his ability to bring a global perspective to the Sunnyvale California company according to notes on the AMD Web site. Prior to joining AMD he led sales and marketing campaigns in the Asian European and American markets as an executive with WebGain Inc. Bell Microproducts and IBM Corp.
Despite the loss of leadership AMD will probably see no ill effects in its major product launch this year the introduction of its Barcelona quad-core Opteron server chip expected in September one analyst said. "With that product being launched so soon I don't see any near-term effect on their chip family" said Dean McCarron an analyst with Mercury Research.


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