What's really happening at AMD?

AMD timeline

23^rd June 1999 – AMD launches Athlon desktop processor, giving it a performance edge over Intel

- Share price ≈ $9 -

7^th January 2002 – AMD launches Athlon XP 2000+ series

25^th April 2002 – Hector de J. Ruiz elected chief Executive officer of AMD

- Share price ≈ $11 -

15^th May 2002 – AMD appoints Dirk Meyer as senior VP and corporate officer

23^rd September 2002 – Ruiz says: ‘Semiconductor manufacturers must reinvent their business models to forge tight connections and collaborations with end-users, customers and partners.’

14^th November 2002 – AMD culls workforce by 15 percent

- Share price ≈ $6 -

9^th June 2003 – AMD names Henri Richard senior VP of worldwide sales and marketing

23^rd September 2003 – AMD launches Athlon64 FX-51

19^th October 2004 – AMD launches Athlon 64 FX-55 and Model 4000+ CPUs

- Share price ≈ $9 -

18^th January 2005 – AMD announces record sales of $5 billion in 2004, a 42 percent increase from 2003

28^th June 2005 – AMD files anti-trust complaint against Intel in US Federal District Court

7^th September 2005 – Phil Hester joins AMD as CTO, from Opteron partner Newisys and previously IBM

24^th October 2005 – AMD unveils Commercial Channel Access Program

18^th January 2006 – AMD announces record sales of $5.85 billion for 2005, a 17 percent increase from 2004. Excluding the results of the Memory Products Group segment, it had sales of $3.94 billion

- Share price ≈ $35 -

4^th April 2006 – Steve Ballmer and Mark Hurd announce support for AMD’s enterprise offering

18^th May 2006 – AMD issues statement on Dell decision

23^rd May 2006 – AMD launches socket AM2: Athlon 64 FX-62 and nForce5 590 SLI

31^st May 2006 – AMD launches AMD LIVE! PC

23^rd June 2006 – AMD announces plans to build a 32nm fab in New York State

24^th July 2006 – AMD announces plans to acquire ATI for $5.4 billion

- Share price ≈ $19 -

23^rd October 2006 – Ruiz courts Oracle and Dell enterprise

25^th October 2006 – AMD completes acquisition of ATI

5^th December 2006 – AMD moves to 65nm process technology

23^rd January 2007 – Pre-acquisition AMD revenue ‘increased 33 percent’ to $5.25 billion

- Share price ≈ $17 -

28^th February 2007 – AMD launches 690G chipset

14^th May 2007 – Details on Phenom emerge

14^th May 2007 – AMD launches the Radeon HD 2900 XT/R600

10^th July 2007 – Ex ATI CEO, Dave Orton, resigns from AMD

29^th June 2007 – AMD announces ‘Barcelona’ quad core processors will be shipping in August 2007

20^th August 2007 – AMD announces further initiatives aimed at helping the channel

22^nd August 2007 – AMD chief marketing officer, Henri Richard, resigns

- Share price ≈ $12 -

31^st August 2007 – Rick Hegberg, senior VP of worldwide sales, leaves AMD

10^th September 2007 – AMD unveils ‘Barcelona’

17^th September 2007 – AMD adds triple-core Phenom to its desktop roadmap

15^th November 2007 – AMD launches Radeon HD 3800 series GPUs

19^th November 2007 – AMD launches ‘Spider’ enthusiast platform

17^th January 2008 - AMD announces record revenue of over $6 billion for 2007, a 6 percent increase from 2006. However ATI-acquisition related charges of nearly $2 billion leads to a net loss of nearly $3.4 billion.

- Share price ≈ $7 -

28^th January 2008 – AMD launches first dual GPU card: ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2

4^th March 2008 – AMD launches RS780G chipset

20^th March 2008 – AMD appoints Nigel Dessau as chief marketing officer amid rumours of job losses

27^th March 2008 – AMD launches triple core Phenoms and adds new quad core ones

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So what's really going on, right now, at AMD...