Advanced Micro Devices has named Mario Rivas as the new head of the company's Computation Products Group, which designs and makes AMD's processors. Current President and Chief Operating Officer Dirk Meyer had continued to hold on to that role after he was kicked upstairs earlier this year.
Meyer used to run the chip group as a business unit when AMD had both a processor business and a flash memory business. But after the flash memory business was spun off last year, Meyer became the second-ranking executive through virtue of leading AMD's only remaining business.