AMD forms global advisory board

Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD has assembled a group of academics and other experts from Asia, Europe and Latin America to help the company identify and resolve key challenges in home technology. Members of the Global Consumer Advisory Board include Hideyo Waki, a professor in the Information and Telecommunication Department at Tokyo Denki University; Soonhoon Bae, the former CEO of Daewoo and a visiting professor in the Graduate School of Management at the Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology; and Carlos Scheel, a professor at the Graduate School of Business (EGADE) of the Monterrey Institute of Technology in Monterrey, Mexico.

Since last year, AMD has aggressively been pursuing consumer advocacy programs, grassroots sorts of events and programs engineered to make consumers more familiar with AMD and its technology.