[TPU] AMD Appoints Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi to Board of Directors - Page 3

orly?
http://www.hwbot.org/image/860119.jpg New cpu (8350)@ 6Ghz

http://www.hwbot.org/image/273767.jpg Old cpu (965BE)@ 5.8Ghz

A CPU's job is to calculate math.The newer chips calculate math slower than the old chips; 3 seconds less within a time frame of 15 seconds is a large margin.This is not improvement.

I'm not "keeping up" with their product launch because..they haven't produced anything better.
Edited by Schmuckley - 11/12/12 at 5:57am

(http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=74093&p=irol-govBio&ID=225876)

"Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi joined the AMD board of directors in November 2012. Yahia currently serves as executive director of Mubadala Industry, where he is responsible for Mubadala’s growing industrial portfolio, which includes metals, mining, utilities, and advanced materials and products. He also leads a number of corporate efforts across the Mubadala portfolio, including: Enterprise Risk Management, Asset Management/Value Creation and Learning & Development. Prior to joining Mubadala, Yahia was a partner at McKinsey & Company, where he co-led the firm’s Principal Investor practice. He was also the managing partner of McKinsey’s Abu Dhabi practice. While at McKinsey, Yahia supported a number of critical Mubadala investments from 2006 through 2009, including the acquisition of AMD’s manufacturing assets and the creation of GLOBALFOUNDRIES. Yahia also consulted for a number of Fortune 500 companies, where the central theme of his work was corporate performance transformations, business building and industrial sector development. Specifically, he worked on issues related to strategy, including acquisitions and post-merger management, divestitures, international expansion and new business development, risk management, operational turnarounds, organizational restructuring and capability building.

Yahia holds a number of board positions, including Emirates Aluminium, Guinea Alumina Corporation, National District Cooling Company, SMN Power Holding Company SAOG, SMN Barka Power Company, Al Rusail Power Company, and Jiangsu Suyadi Tancai Company.

Yahia holds Masters of Science degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) in Mechanical Engineering/Product Strategy and an engineer’s degree from Ecole Centrale Paris. While at MIT, he received the J. William Fulbright Foreign Scholarship Board award for academic excellence."

Apparently Amd is aware of his connections and if your smart you'll know the wealth the UAE has, don't be surprised if Amd moves offshore to Dubai. One things for sure these Arabs don't fail so if they have this guy you best believe theirs more to come so its looking like, Amd wants their stock to keep falling to the point everyone sales theirs shares and these Arab investors come in and buy them out they could pull it off I don't think this guy accepted a job to a company that will bankrupt when they can just let stock fall buy it, pump millions of oil money into r&d. Think about it all the top cpu makers are American their isn't any cpu makers that I know of in the middle east even Europe has to wait on intel and amd after they release in the U.S. These guys could just move amd overseas and dominate that market effortlessly, they could sell to anyone so fast intel wouldn't be able to catch up, all those countries, they could create so many jobs and take technology to places that don't have it.
Edited by Kalistoval - 11/12/12 at 6:34am

Really? Superpi?

I'm disappointed. Literally the only benchmark I can think of that piledriver doesn't win in. That's like picking the highest cherry on the tree. AMD really doesn't care about x87 performance and neither should anyone else.

which is bad why? intel got to where they are partially from brand loyalty. and how is cheaper bad? thats like saying "the only reason a person would buy a honda is because they are cheaper"....think before you type

Wprime too..anything that requires brute computation power.

A cpu is a math coprocessor..and the FX series have slower abacus fingers than earlier AMD abacuses.

Are you implying major companies belong to a nation or a group of investors with the same nationality or what?

Yes...They used to be based in Texas and California.

That would be funny. Amd siding with oil tycoons to get some serious cash against Intel.


Anyway it looks like this man has some serious connections to metals and such. Good score amd.

I am an arab and i run from arabs, trust me this is a bad move

this is not good! I guess my 955be is the last amd chip I am buying