Last Friday AMD said its CTO Phil Hester was resigning to 'pursue other opportunities,' claiming it had nothing to do with the 10% reduction in force it intends making to cut costs in the face of its sales shortfall. It also said it won't replace him. So observers, not believing that 'other opportunities' bit, figured that if AMD isn't spinning a yarn and trying to save a buck on a mostly decorative post and Hester's leaving under his own stream then, they speculated, it must have cut Hester's projects and, since he got to AMD in 2005, he's been most closely associated with the ATI Fusion and 'accelerated computing' ventures of putting CPUs and GPUs together on the same die in different ratios for different purposes. ...
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