The chipmaker also named Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer to succeed Hector Ruiz as CEO.

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Galvin's point man on the semiconductor turnaround is Hector Ruiz, group president.

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Galvin's point man on the semiconductor turnaround is Hector Ruiz, group president, a tough-minded engineer who came up through the ranks in chips and paging.

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AMD's indomitable leader, Hector Ruiz, worked the phones for days.

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"We've had enough of losing money and we look forward to having the cash register start ringing, " said Meyer, who took over the top job at AMD in July from Hector Ruiz.

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Then in April, AMD Chief Executive Hector Ruiz told trade newspaper InfoWorld that AMD's server chip share would be 12% by the end of this year, even though the share had stopped growing.

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Chief Executive Hector Ruiz stepped down last month.

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Now that AMD has managed to be more than just a thorn in Intel's side, and instead a valid and increasingly threatening competitor, we figured they'd lay off the immature Intel bashing, but AMD's CEO, Hector Ruiz, got a bit whiny the other day during a speech to the Commonwealth Club in San Francisco.

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