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Nigel Dessau, AMD's marketing boss, is departing the perennial number two CPU chip-maker to become a three-minute mentor. Dessau is AMD's SVP and chief marketing officer, and came from Sun where he was appointed as the VP for all of storage marketing and business operations in June 2006, and then VP for Alliances as well. …

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  1. swisstoni
    Thumb Up

    How long?

    Have you been saving that subhead for?

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    AMD have a marketing department?

    That is all....

  3. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    When you write 'in some style'

    Do you mean: in the style of a twat?

  4. Jim Preis
    FAIL

    3 Minutes

    I was about as impressed with the 3 Minute Mentor Site as my wife is with my 3 minute performances.

  5. jason 7
    Mushroom

    No great loss.

    I've been saying this guy has been a waste of space for ages. Not like he put a lot of effort into the role.

    Marketing? What marketing? A lot of 'working from home' I reckon.

  6. anon y moose
    Facepalm

    /facepalm*

    I just spent the last 4 hours running a boot-time AVG scan thanks to your '3 Minute Mentor' link; got 'Java Agent Virus' and god knows what else....

    *Facepalm ,because the irony of getting a virus as a result of following a link from reputable IT/Security website is not lost on me.

  7. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    didn't do much at ibm

    His big thing at IBM was the "Virtualization Engine" anyone hear about that since? He bolted to STK to avoid the failure at IBM.

    He should do a 3-minute mentor on how to changed jobs to avoid have to dealing with failures.

  8. Silverburn
    Coat

    3 minute Mentor

    3 minutes? My wife would consider that an upgrade...

    Oh wait, thats not what you meant. oops.

  9. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    re: the irony of getting a virus

    So did the Reg tell you to use a vulnerable platform for surfing, or was that a choice that you made?

  10. Maverick
    Headmaster

    would you take advice?

    from someone who clearly can't write grammatically correct English?

    1. anon y moose
      IT Angle

      Are you referring to me...

      Or the register?

      @AC 27th Dec

      Not in so many words...

      http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/12/09/chrome_ie_firefox_security_bakeoff/

      But not far off

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