CTO Fred Weber, who has over the past few years worked on AMD64, DirectConnect and HyperTransport technology, will be leaving AMD. From The Register:
These products and architecture advances made it possible for AMD not only to catch up to rival Intel on the server front but eventually to best it from a performance standpoint. Over the past two years, AMD has managed to sign up IBM, HP and Sun Microsystems as server processor customers and to gain close to 10 per cent of the x86 chip market. AMD also forced Intel to cave on 64-bit extensions and to rush dual-core processors to market. Weber deserves some credit for all of the above.
Phil Hester will assume the position of CTO.