According to AMD, Chief Technology Officer Phil Hester has resigned from the company. Hester left IBM in 2005 to take the CTO position at AMD, during the success of the Optron Server processor. While Hester has been one of the overseers of the Quadcore Barcelona Server processor, most of his time has been devoted to the Fusion Project. The Barcelona chip has recently become available despite many technical issues.
It has been undisclosed if this is part of AMD's initiative to lay off 10% of its workforce, but as of yet, no replacement has been named. Furthermore there is talk that instead Hester's job responsibilities will be distributed amongst the current business units.
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