secwatch.observer — SEC 8-K summary
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Issuer:     ADVANCED MICRO DEVICES INC (AMD)
CIK:        0000002488
Form:       8-K
Filed at:   2025-12-15T23:59:59+00:00
Accession:  0000002488-25-000182
Event type: leadership
Sentiment:  neutral
Materiality: 0.55
Item codes: 5.02, 9.01
LLM model:  deepseek-v4-flash:cloud@v2

AMD appoints Emily Ellis as Chief Accounting Officer effective Dec 15, 2025
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- Emily Ellis, 43, appointed Corporate VP and CAO; previously VP Controller at Palo Alto Networks.
- Base salary of $425,000 with 70% target annual bonus; sign-on bonus of $300,000 (2-year clawback).
- Initial RSU award valued at $3,000,000 vesting over 4 years; eligible for annual equity of $900,000 target.
- Jean Hu steps down as interim CAO but remains EVP, CFO and Treasurer.
- Ellis is a CPA; no family relationships or material transactions with AMD officers.

Source:
  EDGAR index:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000000248825000182/0000002488-25-000182-index.htm
  Primary doc:    https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/2488/000000248825000182/amd-20251212.htm
  HTML page:      https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000002488-25-000182

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