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Hector de J. Ruiz Elected
Chief Executive Officer Of AMD
SUNNYVALE, CA -- April 25, 2002 --
AMD announced today that Hector de J. Ruiz has been elected chief executive officer. The action came at a board of directors meeting in New York following the annual shareholder meeting. W.J. Sanders III was elected chairman.
Ruiz, 56, has been president and chief operating officer of AMD since January 2000. Sanders, 65, is a co-founder of AMD and has served as chief executive officer of the company since its founding on May 1, 1969.
About AMD
AMD is a global supplier of integrated circuits for the personal and networked computer and communications markets with manufacturing facilities in the United States, Europe, Japan, and Asia. AMD, a Fortune 500 and Standard & Poor’s 500 company, produces microprocessors, flash memory devices, and support circuitry for communications and networking applications. Founded in 1969 and based in Sunnyvale, California, AMD had revenues of $3.9 billion in 2001. (NYSE: AMD).
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