Re-engineering AMD

Dirk Meyer was six months out of college and working as an engineer for Intel when he ran into Bob Noyce, the company’s legendary co-founder and co-inventor of the integrated circuit, at the punch bowl at a shareholders meeting. “He talked to me for 30 minutes – some snot-nosed kid he’d never even heard of,†Meyer recalls. “He asked, ‘How do you like my company? What do you like? What are you confused about?’â€Â