AMD Inteview with Hector Ruiz

[NFS4]

http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1759,1574331,00.asp

What do you think of Michael Dell personally?

He's an incredibly smart guy. Shrewd. Very personal. I find him delightful to talk to. And I have a good relationship with him, to the point that either he or I can just pick up the phone and talk to each other. There's no secretary that screens you out and calls you back. None of that. It's really a good relationship.

But he's facing a very challenging thing. He's got a commitment for $5 billion of product from a company [Intel Corp.]. How do you ever flip that? That's pretty hard to do. And I can understand that.

But you know, Dell prides themselves on not being a leader in things of technology, they pride themselves on being a strong follower. But I never dreamed that they would be dead last following, I mean, they're running at the very end. They're going to be at the caboose of the [Opteron] train. And it's just kind of surprising to me that they'd wait that long. We still have hope and confidence that they'll see the light.

 

[wizdum]

Heh, that's pretty cool.

 

[JBT]

Hey we'll see i guess

 

[CraigRT]

yeah pretty cool
as JBT said we'll see 🙂

 

[Abhi]

Originally posted by: JBT
Hey we'll see i guess

 

[Redviffer]

Hector Ruiz is a pretty good spokesperson. He can basically slam Dell and still make it look "nice". 🙂

 

[KristopherKubicki]

Remember Hector is following up in the footsteps of Sanders.... Although Sanders was/is an ambitious person, his level of tact was never that of Hectors 🙂

Kristopher

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: KristopherKubicki
Remember Hector is following up in the footsteps of Sanders.... Although Sanders was/is an ambitious person, his level of tact was never that of Hectors 🙂

Kristopher

Agreed. Hector is a very worthy sucessor to Sanders, although I wish they could have just integrated Sanders in to Hector for the best of both worlds.😛

 

[Zebo]

Who the chairman?

 

[biostud]

One of the most powerful things next year is going to be our dual-core product. To me, that's going to really shock the hell out of everyone, because it's going to be hardware-compatible, infrastructure-compatible, pin-compatible. I mean, people that have a 2-P system can slap in a dual-core product and end up with a 4-P system for the price of a 2-P. That's been the biggest drawback, everyone tells me. What keeps them from going from a 2-P to a 4-P system? It's price.

Ooooooohhhh

 

[jm0ris0n]

Yummm, dual core !