As CEO of microchip maker Advanced Micro Devices (AMD), Hector Ruiz led the charge to sue his company’s behemoth competitor Intel for unfair business practices in an anti-trust lawsuit. AMD eventually received a $1.25 billion settlement from Intel in 2009. Intel (INTC) never admitted to any wrongdoing.
Ruiz has written a new book Slingshot about the whole saga. The former tech CEO sat down with The Daily Ticker to talk about his vision for the future of technology taking into account lessons learned from his battle with Intel.
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Ruiz believes that cognitive computing will be the technology that changes our lives looking ahead. He forecasts an “intelligence revolution” that will fuel innovation and market expansion the way the PC did for the last 30 years. Cognitive computing is essentially training computers to learn and think and providing solutions from health care, to financial transactions, to managing
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