Hector Ruiz
Former CEO & Executive Chairman, AMD
Dr. Hector Ruiz is the former CEO and chairman of Advanced Micro Devices, with nearly 40 years experience in the information technology and consumer electronics sectors as an engineer, corporate strategist and chief executive. Before AMD, he spent 22 years at Motorola, rising to the position of president of the company's Semiconductor Products Sector, and six years at Texas Instruments. A native of Piedras Negras in Mexico, Ruiz, as a teenager, walked across the U.S.-Mexico border every day to attend high school in Eagle Pass, Texas, where he graduated valedictorian just three years after learning English. More than a decade later, he had obtained a Ph.D. in electrical engineering from Rice University.
The microship is pervasive and ubiquitous in our lives more than we realize.
One of the challenges that students have today, which is not a lot different than what I faced, is the problem of budgets being cut in education. I grew up […]
We are gaining the capability to create products that mimic how a brain works.
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