What bad year? AMD’s Hector Ruiz gets a raise
Apparently blessed with the best salary-negotiating skills in the universe, AMD CEO Hector Ruiz is getting a raise. After spending most of Thursday apologizing to financial analysts for AMD’s performance in 2007, the company revealed in a filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission that Ruiz’s compensation agreement was amended on Wednesday with his new salary: $1,124,000. Earlier this year, AMD said Ruiz made $1,046,358 in base salary during 2006, with a total compensation package for the year of $12,848,435.
AMD’s stock is down 60 percent in 2007. The company is about to write off some “material” portion of the $3.2 billion in goodwill it assigned to the acquisition of ATI Technologies, a sign that the company way overpaid for the graphics chip maker in 2006. AMD’s decision to favor Dell over channel partners when it came to chip distribution backfired when Dell ran into all of its problems, dooming AMD to a $611 million first-quarter loss. And Barcelona, the quad-core processor AMD spent years hyping, won’t arrive in any kind of major volume until the first quarter of next year due to a series of technical glitches.
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