AMD's Hester joins the board

ON Semiconductor Corp has announced the appointment of Phil D Hester to its Board of Directors.

ON Semiconductor Corp has announced the appointment of Phil D Hester to its Board of Directors.

Hester was elected to this position during the company's recent Board of Directors meeting, and the Board also elected Hester to its Corporate Governance and Executive Committee.

Hester is the Chief Technology Officer and a Senior Vice President at Advanced Micro Devices.

Among his many duties in this position with AMD, Hester is responsible for setting the architectural and product strategies and plans for AMD's microprocessor business.

He also chairs the AMD Technology Council, ensuring that product development, integration and process organisation align technology capabilities with product direction.

Hester has over 30 years of system design and enterprise computing experience.

Before joining AMD, he was cofounder and Chief Executive Officer at Newisys, now a Sanmina-SCI company.

He also spent 23 years at IBM serving in a variety of key leadership and executive technical roles.

While at IBM, Hester led a number of system technology development efforts, including the RS/6000, and served as one of 15 members of the IBM Corporate Technology Council.

Hester holds a Bachelor of Science and master's in engineering from the University of Texas.

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