Taaza.info: It is Hammer Time… An Interview with Hector Ruiz

A few weeks ago, I had a chance to meet with Hector Ruiz, the
chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices; the perennial
also ran of the microprocessor business. It was a wide-ranging
discussion that covered topics such as the future of the personal
computer, Linux and yes the upcoming Hammer processors. In less
than 72 hours the company is going to introduce its new
Hammer/Opteron processors, which are likely to revive the flagging
fortunes of the company, and I thought it was an opportune time to
post this interview. Here are excerpts from that interview…

“OM: AMD has been a big backer of Linux and the open source
community has responded favorably. Was this a conscious
decision?

“HR: I am a firm believer in the open source philosophy. I think
it is a scary thought to some but we move faster by going open
source. We are moving in that direction. I believe that the
architecture that we have created has a tremendous appeal to the
Linux community. Linux runs well on Alchemy and our other chips.
AMD is betting the farm on Linux and Windows. With all due respect
to others, these are the Operating Systems’
that matter…”

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