Dirk Meyer

Who is Dirk Meyer?

Dirk Meyer is president and chief operating officer of AMD. In this

role, he shares leadership and management of AMD with Chief Executive

Officer and Chairman of the Board Hector Ruiz. Meyer also serves on the

Board of Directors for AMD.

Prior to his current role, Meyer served as president and chief

operating officer of AMD’s Microprocessor Solutions Sector where he had

overall responsibility for AMD’s microprocessor business, including

product development, manufacturing, operations and product marketing.

Meyer joined AMD in 1995 and led engineering for the AMD

Athlon™ microprocessor. In April 1999, he was promoted to vice

president of engineering. In 2001, he was named group vice president

and general manager of AMD's microprocessor business and in 2002 was

named senior vice president and an executive officer of AMD.

Prior to AMD, Meyer spent nearly a decade at Digital Equipment

Corporation, where he was co-architect of the Alpha 21064 and 21264

microprocessors.

As one of the world’s leading microprocessor design innovators, Meyer

was presented with the prestigious Association for Computing Machinery

(ACM) Maurice Wilkes Award at the 2003 International Symposium on

Computer Architecture (ISCA).

Meyer graduated from the University of Illinois, where he received a

bachelor's degree in computer engineering. He also received a master's

degree in business administration from Boston University.