Dirk Meyer, the man to watch at AMD

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It's a mistake to replace Ruiz with Meyer, in my opinion. Meyer used to work for Intel, so he thinks like Intel. This is the last think AMD needs, someone who can't see beyond Intel's playground. AMD needs to find a tech visionary who is willing to stop playing Intel's game and forge a new market. Now that the industry is beginning to take its first painful steps away from sequential computing toward massive parallelism, AMD has the chance of a lifetime to redefine the multicore CPU market and leave Intel holding an empty bag. AMD must re-evaluate the current state of the art in parallel computing and determine what is wrong with it. And there is a lot that is wrong with it (see link below). As soon as they can identify the real nature of the problem, they can formulate a solution and corner the market. I'm sure Meyer is a good engineer but I doubt very much that he has the sort of vision that will catapult AMD into a leadership position in this cut-throat market.

"The Age of Crappy Concurrency: Erlang, Tilera, AMD, IBM, Freescale, etc..."
http://rebelscience.blogspot.com/2007/09/age-of-crappy-concurrency-erlang-tilera.html

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