- Phillip Doyce Hester
Phillip ("Phil") Doyce Hester (born
April 30 ,1955 ) was the CTO and Senior Vice President of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD).Phillip Hester resigned from his position of chief technology officer at the company on 11/4/2008.
Hester grew up in
Corpus Christi, Texas , and attended King High School. Phil holds a Bachelor of Science and a Masters in Engineering from theUniversity of Texas at Austin .Hester spent 23 years at
IBM , where he was the lead developer for theRS/6000 .He was also a co-founder, and CEO of
Newisys , now aSanmina-SCI company .
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