{"id":67816,"date":"2013-01-03T17:15:11","date_gmt":"2013-01-03T15:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/?p=67816"},"modified":"2013-01-04T09:24:28","modified_gmt":"2013-01-04T07:24:28","slug":"amd-names-new-cfo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/technology\/67816-amd-names-new-cfo.html","title":{"rendered":"AMD names new CFO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Advanced Micro Devices\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/314573-Advanced-Micro-Devices\">Advanced Micro Devices<\/a> said on Wednesday it promoted senior executive <a title=\"Devinder Kumar\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/494948-Devinder-Kumar\">Devinder Kumar<\/a> to chief financial officer after the struggling PC chipmaker announced in September its previous CFO was leaving.<\/p>\n<p>Kumar, a 28-year AMD veteran, had been standing in as CFO since AMD announced the departure of <a title=\"Thomas Siefert\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/vb\/showthread.php\/494950-Thomas-Siefert\">Thomas Siefert<\/a>, who was liked by many on Wall Street.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2001, Kumar was corporate controller at AMD, which like other PC-related companies has been hit by a slump in demand as smartphones and tablets grow in popularity.<\/p>\n<p>AMD, one of Silicon Valley&#8217;s oldest chipmakers, has been laying off engineers while looking for new markets for its chips as it faces dwindling cash reserves.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting By Noel Randewich; Editing by Tim Dobbyn)<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Related Articles<\/h3>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to AMD Trinity A-Series APU review\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/reviews\/63376-amd-trinity-a-series-apu-review.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD Trinity A-Series APU review<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to AMD adopting smartphone tech in servers\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/general\/63414-amd-adopting-smartphone-tech-in-servers.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">AMD adopting smartphone tech in servers<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Permanent Link to New AMD A-Series APUs \u2013 SA pricing and availability\" href=\"http:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/hardware\/61232-new-amd-a-series-apus-sa-pricing-and-availability.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">New AMD A-Series APUs \u2013 SA pricing and availability<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMD has promoted senior executive Devinder Kumar to chief financial officer after the struggling PC chipmaker announced in September its previous CFO was leaving.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":340871,"featured_media":48268,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_threads_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[577],"class_list":["post-67816","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-technology","tag-amd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/340871"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67816"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67818,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67816\/revisions\/67818"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}