Thursday, June 27th 2019
Rumor: Frank Azor to Join AMD as Chief Gaming Officer
According to Wccftech, Frank Azor, a co-founder, vice president and general manager of Alienware, will be joining AMD as Chief Gaming Officer. Starting on the third of July, Frank will be leaving Dell and will officially join AMD, as Wccftech suggests. The announcement from AMD should follow after third of July if that is the case. Frank has worked for Alienware/Dell for almost 25 years in its purpose to bring alien like gaming PCs to the market.
He posted on Alienware community website:
"Family, as you saw in Ray's earlier announcement, I'll be leaving Dell as of July 3 to take on a new challenge.
A little over 21 years ago, I met a couple of lunatics who had an idea they called Alienware. When I met them and learned about the company they were trying to build, I thought to myself, "This would be the coolest job ever." I was right, but none of us ever dreamed the brand would come this far - which is a result of all of you, your hard work and passion... ". You can read it fully here.
These speculations about the move to AMD aren't confirmed yet and the situation is likely to change, so take this with a grain of salt.
Source:
WCCFTech
"Family, as you saw in Ray's earlier announcement, I'll be leaving Dell as of July 3 to take on a new challenge.
A little over 21 years ago, I met a couple of lunatics who had an idea they called Alienware. When I met them and learned about the company they were trying to build, I thought to myself, "This would be the coolest job ever." I was right, but none of us ever dreamed the brand would come this far - which is a result of all of you, your hard work and passion... ". You can read it fully here.
These speculations about the move to AMD aren't confirmed yet and the situation is likely to change, so take this with a grain of salt.
13 Comments on Rumor: Frank Azor to Join AMD as Chief Gaming Officer
Grotesquely overpriced machines, with bad choice of components and expand-ability, check.
Not being able to use Dell's resources to properly promote and compete in the gaming monitor market against the likes of Acer, BenQ, Asus and AOC, check.
Not being able to make competitive peripherals like mice, keyboards and headsets even to the level of re-branding existing OEMs, check.
I apologize if you have to read this, Mr Azor, but your company and your parent company has not been doing particularly good for this market and its consumers in those years under the Alienware brand.
You have displayed a complete disinterest in trends and user requests, and did not use opportunities to penetrate potential markets in time or at all. Smaller companies were able to gain margins without many efforts thanks to that.
I don't know how much we PC users should be excited about you moving to AMD as someone who should be in touch with us, since we haven't seen you actually do that properly during those years.
Wishing Frank the best at AMD, if confirmed. Make us proud.
:eek:
Any tech company with good marketing will do fine.
The problem is that Alienware had the infinity-gauntlet of PC hardware pretty much, being able to make so many great things, but yet they didn't do much at all. That's because of what i mostly assume bad marketing staff. This is where the problem is at with this transfer.