Along with shuffling around executives, Advanced Micro Devices is forming a Central Engineering group tasked with developing corporate roadmaps and coordinating plans with both externals customers and internal company units.

Changes have been long expected at AMD, which has lost hundreds of millions of dollars over the past year and a half while it struggled to get Barcelona, a quad-core server processor, out the door. As leader of the chip group, Rivas appears to be taking the fall for the Barcelona debacle. Earlier this year, Phil Hester also left AMD after serving as chief technology officer.

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