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According to foreign media reports, after following the departure Dirk Meyer, CEO, AMD executives at the company has announced yet another departure; AMD Chief Operations and Administrative Officer Robert Rivet had left, the interim CEO position plug currently AMD Thomas Seifert concurrently.

Additionally, AMD senior vice president of corporate strategy Marty Seyer will also be leaving; However, there remained in Leavitt and Seye Er AMD to help the company to maintain a smooth transition.

AMD said in a statement, Leavitt and Seye Er leave in search of new opportunities for personal development.

Investment firm Gleacher & Co analyst Doug Freedman, said the two men’s departure will not make investors feel very worried.

Leavitt joined in 2000, AMD, has served as chief financial officer, and in 2009 the post by Thomas Seifert. Being replaced by Dirk Meyer, now Saifei Te posts, and AMD Board of Directors are actively looking for new CEO.

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Dirk Meyer

According to foreign media reports, AMD company announced Tuesday, the company CEO and president of Beijing on January 11 morning news, AMD announced on Monday afternoon, CEO and President CEO Dirk Meyer to resign and leave the board. Interim Board of Directors appointed former senior vice president and chief financial officer, 47-year-old Thomas Seifert, served as CEO and company director.

It is reported that, AMD has set up a special committee, CEO, find a new CEO. This also means that the temporary CEO of CEO Thomas Seifert is only a “temporary staff.”

In announcing the resignation of Dirk Meyer, AMD side said, Dirk Meyer difficult time in successfully stabilized AMD AMD, and Intel also completed the settlement of legal proceedings, including the establishment of GLOBALFOUNDRIES, and the Fusion APU market and so on, “Obviously, he difficult time as CEO the company is fully qualified. ”

AMD said in a statement: “Companies need to achieve substantial growth, to establish market dominance and gain huge profits. We believe that the change of leadership at this time, will improve the company’s ability to achieve these goals.”

 Seifert joined in 2009, AMD, has over 20 years of general management, global business and financial management experience. Prior to joining AMD, he served as Chief Operating Officer of Qimonda and the chief financial officer. Work at Infineon, Seifert served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Wireless Business Unit.

Dirk Meyer Description:

Dirk Meyer, 49, in the AMD for over 10 years.

In 1996, he was appointed AMD Athlon processor development project technical director, was promoted after three years of computing products division (CPG) Vice President of Engineering;

CPG 2001 was appointed Vice President;

CPG 2002 was promoted to senior vice president and chief executive officer of AMD;

In 2004, Dirk Meyer has been promoted to executive vice president of CPG;

Was appointed in 2005 AMD Microprocessor Solutions Sector president and chief operating officer;

In 2006, Dirk Meyer was promoted to president and COO of AMD. July 2008 Dirk Meyer replaced Hector Ruiz as AMD, CEO.

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Living in the Chinese market, watch the two giants played the monopoly of our large, we need to learn the mentality, to deeply reflect on our own

   World affairs, long period of division together.

November 12, 2009, the world’s two computer chip makers AMD and Intel settled the feud wiped out more than two decades, the computer industry, the most upstream of two world-class oligarchy, and finally turning hostility into friendship.

The market immediately responded, AMD shares rose 21.80 percent the day the day, to close at 6.48 U.S. dollars; Intel shares fell 0.81% while, to close at 19.68 U.S. dollars. But do not forget that in the good news of reconciliation, the EU dismissed Intel’s 14.5 U.S. dollars a ticket, the stock can still be so strong, showing that investors “duopoly,” Introduction and the confidence and support!

Exhaustion of the Big Mac

    Both Intel and AMD, have been able to continue to consume in such old scores among the aged. “AMD and Intel have been a lawsuit, which for both companies, is a time-consuming and laborious and expensive things. Especially now, the EU’s ruling and the U.S. accusations, and make Intel’s reputation has been affected, market access is also faced with strong resistance. “industry sources, Intel has made a settlement agreement may be from and to be the U.S. government identified as a monopoly.

    Compared with traditional industries, IT-based production is a high degree of market-oriented one of the industries, but in memory, disk and the external supporting a highly developed industrial competition today, chip production is almost monopolistic in nature, due to the dominance of Intel, according to company’s third-quarter results, recording a daily average of 100 million U.S. dollars in above. Although AMD’s rise rapidly, but the limitations encountered Intel AMD Querang miserable and had to spend a lot of effort and money to seek a new breakthrough.

    Struggle between the two can finally suspended in the market forces, we hope and believe that this struggle will always be a stop – not exclusion of competition, but competition in such a highly developed technology is absolutely mature enough to improve the industrial chain industry, co-existence of Duopoly, I am afraid is the most perfect pattern. Once this imbalance, no matter how powerful giant, I am afraid can not afford this trade friction losses.

China’s gap between the

    But this was a seemingly has nothing to do with China.

    We do not have AMD or Intel, such as super-cow level, there is no near-perfect industrial chain, but there is no such full market competition and restraint.

    Oligarchy For China, it seems only state-owned enterprises, from oil, CNOOC, Sinopec third world country prefix, to Haier, Hisense and other parts of the enterprises directly under SASAC’s crowded. Home appliance chain industry, although there after years of strife, has been temporarily formed Gome and Suning of duopoly situation, but its architecture fragile, so we are very hard to believe that long-term nature of this pattern.

But it does not mean that dual-core shake hands, it really has nothing to do with Chinese enterprises. I seems that holds many lessons for growing in 3:00 for the Chinese private enterprises, has a special significance of:

    First of all, fearless spirit. In the first three quarters of 2009, ranking the world’s semiconductor manufacturers, Intel topped the list, while AMD has withdrawn from outside the top 10, but this gap, but it did not allow such a late comer back AMD, Lenovo look at those who are already in the international arena the remarkable achievements of Chinese enterprises, which are not from the fearless spirit of a start?

    Second, the value of the core technology. Homogenization techniques excess capacity is not just financial crisis, leaving China’s worries, but also in China faces huge problems, short-lived “China’s core” that is the best proof – to be based on the international market and become the “oligarchs” One innovation of the core technology, Chinese enterprises need to overcome bottlenecks.

    Finally, fair regulation and fair competition. Have increased recently in the “national people retreat into the” wave of competition from another dimension reflects the unjust nature of the private enterprises and state-owned enterprises when the fight took place, the Chinese government is still very difficult to achieve from a market perspective, not from the interests of the perspectives, only crack this problem, in order to stimulate a greater vitality of private enterprise by the market to determine who continue to live.

    Living in the Chinese market, watch the two giants played the monopoly of our large, we need to learn the mentality, to deeply reflect on our own.

Intel and AMD settlement agreement in exchange for its no problem at the same time, they will meet a more stringent anti-trust sanctions, and the object there are Intel Intel and AMD into a 2! “Snipe and the clam encouraged mischief,” the original Intel and AMD competition will lead to fair competition in the computer chip market to give consumers more choice and price concessions. But recently, Intel and AMD reached a settlement agreement, will no longer cooperate in the struggle, which no doubt the vast numbers of computer users is a bad news!

This means that the computer chip market will be the two companies under the control of coordinated conduct of operations, consumer choice in pricing and trading opportunities for less and less. Absolute control of its two corporate market, will also be updated about the pace and direction of technology, information security is also a challenge! In order to protect the computer user’s right to market fair trade, pricing, information security and technological progress, national anti-ridge law enforcement agencies should increase their monopoly of Intel and AMD coordinated agreements, abuse of market dominant position conduct of operations to carry out anti-monopoly law enforcement, judicial !

November 12, 2009, Intel reached a settlement with the AMD and Intel AMD will pay 1.25 billion U.S. dollars, so as to solve all the anti-trust between the two sides and patent infringement litigation. The core content of the settlement agreement the two sides is that Intel can not deal with the customer or vendor restrictions, deferred, refused to AMD processor-based PC, or any other platform products, refrain from the threat does not meet the manufacturers Intel, and so on, six agreements for Intel’s limited period of 10年. Of course, in exchange for the two sides to withdraw all patent litigation, AMD withdrawal has already begun around the world such as anti-trust appeal.

On the surface, Intel and AMD settlement agreement is a happy outcome, but this alone is very naive wishful thinking. European Union antitrust officials have made clear that it would continue to conduct anti-trust lawsuit against Intel. Not only that, the two companies will not help reconciliation in the computer chip market monopoly, but also exacerbated the monopoly of the field of computer chips. This will hinder the market a greater degree of technological progress and consumer protection. Meanwhile, the settlement agreement will bring AMD pushed the anti-monopoly law enforcement and justice in the dock!

Intel and AMD both companies occupy the market for computer processors, respectively 80% and 20% share. For a long time occupied an absolute market dominance of Intel, for AMD in a very long time carried out on Intel antitrust allegations and litigation. The two companies have intellectual property litigation has continued without interruption. Although the market situation of this struggle have not been able to break Intel’s market dominance, but more or less to promote Intel and AMD in the market price of the competitive pricing, which is conducive to computer users. But Intel and AMD settlement will change the traditional adversarial competition, into a coherent market monopoly monopolistic business practices and technology, high product market monopoly prices become an inevitable trend, which is extremely detrimental to consumers. An absolute monopoly of the market for technology innovation and information security of a potential threat.

Just as China’s state-owned monopoly industries and strong businesses, petroleum and petrochemical products are 23 large state-owned enterprises controlled by the three major telecom operators have been under the control of six major banks have been under the control of state-owned banks, the original market by two companies, when , should be one of competition and confrontation market, competition has led to operators to provide quality service and cheap goods, consumers have more choices and cheaper markets. However, the result is often the contrary, the competition against the other side of that is consistent with several large companies jointly introduced the same goods and services, fixed prices. It should be said that relatively few competitors in a market than a competitive market is more likely the formation of monopolies and monopoly of concerted market as a whole. Intel and AMD officially achieved a settlement agreement with past experience of competing against a market dominated by business ties to a co-coordinated development of the market. A more monopolistic market for computer processors just around the corner!

Of course, some people say the settlement agreement Intel and AMD can only solve the short-lived dispute can not solve the long-term interests of the struggle. After all, Intel will not voluntarily give up 80% of the market share, or gave AMD12 100 million U.S. dollars annually as compensation. Once the co-operation in the future market, AMD’s market share of the settlement agreement is not obtained because of a large chain, or Intel, because the settlement agreement in the future market share in the development of rapid decline, then the bilateral cooperation will fall through! However, due to emerging computer market in the ascendant in the next 10-20 years, computer hardware and related industries to flourish in the telling trend, the performance of Intel and AMD will gradually increase is no doubt, and this for both sides to lay the long-term concerted control of the market the foundation. So, look forward to Intel and AMD in the context of settlement agreements from the idea of fighting internal strife unrealistic.

EU anti-monopoly law practice focused primarily on the protection of the competitive process on the market, and thus between enterprises become an EU anti-trust allegations of anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies to carry out anti-monopoly law enforcement and judicial origin. For consumer protection, the EU anti-monopoly legal practice that the maintenance of market order of fair competition in the interests of consumers get the appropriate protection. But the legal practice that is not the majority of popular support for the anti-monopoly law enforcement and judicial behavior, the government and the courts will face a monopoly of the strong pressure from interest groups. To this end, the European Union began in the recent Intel’s anti-monopoly law enforcement will be consumer protection as an important study tours, such as restrictions on dealers to sell AMD products that hinder the right choices for consumers. This means that EU anti-trust laws from a focus on the process of maintaining fair competition in the market to focus on consumer interests and competition in the market and try between the two.

The United States has stressed the protection of private property of citizens, so in practice the United States, antitrust law has been highlighting consumer protection, consumer antitrust lawsuit in the United States to carry out more general. U.S. anti-monopoly law enforcement and the judiciary took the initiative to attack relentlessly. China’s “anti-monopoly law” legislative purpose is to safeguard fair market competition and consumer protection, the final analysis is to protect the interests of consumers. Big country with 1.3 billion people do not attach importance to the interests of consumers not do.

Intel is a monopoly in the Chinese market is more serious than those abroad, many of assembling a computer you will be aware, Intel processors and chip how expensive! AMD in the Chinese market share of less than overseas. Thus Intel’s anti-monopoly law enforcement investigations of China’s anti-monopoly law enforcement agencies to urgently do. Since AMD and Intel reached a settlement agreement coordinated business activities engaged in market, AMD must also be part of China’s anti-monopoly law enforcement examination of the object. Multinational companies such as Intel and AMD, and market monopoly, the common question is, just from their own economic interests of the business strategy taking into account market price of goods, consumers never really take into account the views and feelings. This is why consumers urged to increase efforts in anti-monopoly law enforcement and judicial reasons.

European Commission Monday detailed description of the computer chip maker Intel (blog) is how to breach of antitrust rules in the computer market, Advanced Micro Devices Inc. exclusion (AMD, also known as: Ultra-wai semiconductor), thus increased between the Commission and the Intel public relations battle.

Intel in May for the initial non-confidential version of anti-trust ruling, the European Commission a list of Intel abused its dominant market position for computer manufacturers and retailers to put pressure on and asked them not to buy AMD chips in specific cases.

The public version released ruling from Dell, HP, Lenovo Group Ltd. and Acer Inc. e-mail excerpts, the management of these companies are in the mail talking about Intel brought against them in harsh conditions.

The European Commission said Dell in 2003, an internal note at the meeting said that if the company will replace any of the Intel chips supply of AMD chips, Intel carried out in retaliation for its all of its operations may be serious and long-lasting impact.

At the same time, according to the European Commission to submit a company documents show that from 2002 to 2005 Intel, Hewlett-Packard to offer discounts to the condition that at least 95% of HP’s commercial desktop computer chips to be supplied by Intel.