CEO Hector Ruiz

Semiconductor maker Advanced Micro Devices Inc. announced plans Thursday to consolidate the number of data centers it has around the world with help from cloud and hardware upgrades, Computerworld reports. Along with cutting costs, the company said it will reduce the number of data centers it has from 12 to three by 2014 — two in North America and one in Asia. The California-based company, which employs about 2,500 in Austin, announced in November that it would lay off 320 local workers as...Read Full Story

AMD’s new leader has some work to do. CEO changes at AMD have always had some drama associated with them, and they have always been something special. Co-founder Jerry Sanders, for example, stayed with AMD for 32 years until he handed over the company to his apprentice, Hector Ruiz, in 2002. Ruiz’s fate was closely tied to the acquisition of ATI in 2006, which almost sunk AMD financially in 2007. Ruiz was instrumental in spinning off the manufacturing arm in 2008, which gave him an...Read Full Story

Creative and innovative ideas are reflected in the manufacture of home furnishings with interiosr and neat. The concept of a modern style with all-white is very majestic. Floors of ceramic marmer with very soft colors with a piece of marble tile design is not the elbows. Lighting in this house is perfect if lit at night.Houses comes from the Spanish architect Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez and is located in Madrid, Spain. The project was called “House of Ceramics”,the flexibility of the dressing room...Read Full Story

It's official and about time, AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, is finally out. We have been expecting this change for a long time (see earlier blogs).AMD's Board of Directors after the company announced another disappointing quarter elected Dirk Meyer an employee of the firm since 1996 and the company's president and chief operating officer as Ruiz's replacement as CEO. Meyer was supposedly being groomed to be Ruiz's successor but the change took far too long. Ruiz will become executive chairman of...Read Full Story

The Ruiz-Maasburg Penthouse Interior created by Spanish Héctor Ruiz-Velázquez. This entrance or hallway seems to defy gravity and logic and thus changes unexpectedly the perception of space according to the user and his movement trough them. Thus it creates a completely fluent and dynamic space in a static surrounding. The white colour and the lighting are further tools of design. The white colour and its multiple nuances of shadows created by light give a feeling of profundity and wideness...Read Full Story