Is AMD’s senior female chip maker staying loyal?
Is she Eckstein
AMD'S HIGHLY-RATED chip builder, Elke Eckstein has decided to move on after less than two years at the firm flagship Dresden fab.
There’s been drama aplenty on the buses as one of Germany’s elite female semi-conductor VPs has bought a one way ticket to from Dresden to Regensburg, where she will become chief operating officer for Osram Opto Semiconductor.
Eckstein had overseen the operative business of AMD’s F30/38 semiconductor manufacturing site. In terms of bus architectures, she certainly succeeded in meeting the brief to ‘get this bus out’. So why would she leave? After the retreat of Hector Ruiz as AMD's CEO, this fuels speculation about the AMD’s manufacturing future. It must have one, but what’s the strategy?
All we know is that Eckstein is already in place at Osram’s Regensburg office, and has been since July 1st. The alpha woman succeeds Jörg Thäle, who now is CEO of Osram's Low Pressure Discharge business unit.
Prior to her two years at AMD, Eckstein was CEO at the Infineon-IBM joint venture Altis - after having worked her way through Infineon and Taiwanese chip vendor ProMOS. Her career started at the former Siemens' Semiconductor Division (Infineon as was). And guess what they own? Osram Opto Semiconductor, which belongs to parent company Osram, a Siemens subsidiary.
It looks like her bus architecture career is going round in circles. µ
Comments
Erm
Do you know something that you haven't mentioned in the article (for instance, the point)?Otherwise this looks and sounds perfectly normal, people do actually change jobs, as she has done several times before, just as you have pointed out.
And the fact that she has been active in her new position for over a month means that this is not what we could, even loosely, term news.
So, just trying to create a little smoke, for a presumption of fire? And why, we do wonder, would you do that?