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AMD Appoints Walid Maghribi President Of Memory Group
AMD Appoints Walid Maghribi President Of Memory Group
SUNNYVALE, CA -- February 6, 2001 --AMD today announced that Walid Maghribi has been promoted to the newly created position of president of the company's Memory Group. Maghribi was also elected a senior vice president and a corporate officer of AMD by the board of directors. The Memory Group, which had sales of more than $1.5 billion in 2000, produces flash memory devices for a broad range of applications, such as cellular telephones, set-top boxes, automotive systems, mobile Internet access devices, and Internet infrastructure equipment.
"This promotion is a recognition of Walid Maghribi's achievements and leadership as group vice president of the AMD Memory Group," said Hector de J. Ruiz, president and chief operating officer of AMD. "Under Walid's leadership, the Memory Group has consistently established audacious goals for itself - and consistently exceeded them. In 2000, the Memory Group grew sales by more than 100 percent to more than $1.5 billion. In his new role, we expect Walid will be in a position to make even greater contributions to the continued growth of AMD."
Maghribi, 48, joined AMD as a product line manager in 1986 and held several positions before being promoted to group vice president in April 1997. Before joining AMD, he was director of operations at Seeq Technologies. He also worked at National Semiconductor and Intel Corporation.
Maghribi received a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from San Jose State University and a master's in computer science from Santa Clara University. He is based in Sunnyvale, Calif.
About AMD Flash Memory Devices
AMD is a leader in flash memory products with devices that encompass a broad spectrum of densities and features to support a wide range of markets. AMD Flash memory customers represent leaders in the automotive, networking, telecommunications, and handheld mobile terminal markets. AMD has many innovative products such as the award winning Simultaneous Read Write (SRW) product family, Super Low Voltage 1.8V flash memory devices, and Burst and Page mode devices. AMD developed the robust Known Good Die (KGD) program, and the patented negative gate erase technique, and refined the industry standard Fine pitch Ball Grid Array (FBGA).
All of AMD's flash memory products are guaranteed for a minimum of one million write cycles per sector and 20 years data retention, making them the most reliable non-volatile memory devices offered in the industry. |
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