AMD CEO of Computing & Graphics division leaves company

Jim Anderson, the chief executive of AMD’s Computing & Graphics division, is leaving the company. He is going to work as CEO of fpga maker Lattice. AMD has named Saeid Moshkelani as his successor. Moshkelani was previously leader of the Semi-Custom division.

AMD announced the departure of Anderson and the appointment of Moshkelani in an announcement. At the same time, Lattice Semiconductor announced that Jim Anderson will become CEO of that company, effective Sept. 4. An AMD spokesperson told PCWorld that Anderson always had the ambition to become CEO.

As senior vice president and general manager, Anderson was responsible for the Computing & Graphics division. As CEO, he was not so much involved in the design of the CPUs and GPUs, but in the business operations.

AMD has now appointed Saeid Moshkelani as CEO of its Client Compute division. He has been with AMD since 2012, when he was CEO of the Semi-Custom department. Under his care, that division has grown considerably and AMD has won contracts with Sony and Microsoft for the delivery of APUs in consoles.

Anderson is not the first CEO to leave AMD. Radeon CEO Raja Koduri left the company at the end of last year to work on GPUs at Intel. Marketing CEO Chris Hook also left AMD for Intel in April.