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David Orton
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Career
Orton is an American engineering executive. He worked in the graphics and semiconductor industry as an engineer at Bell Laboratories in 1979 to 1983 and then General Electric through December 1988. He joined Silicon Graphics (SGI) in 1990, and was senior vice president of visual computing and advanced systems through 1999.
In 1996 SGI bought Cray Research and Orton had to deal with merging the companies overlapping technologies.
Orton joined ATI Technologies as a result of an acquisition of ArtX in April 2000, where he was president and Chief Executive Officer. ATI posted losses after the dot-com bubble collapsed, although losses were reduced by June 2001. He was named Chief Executive Officer of ATI in March 2004.
Despite ATI"s principal location in Markham, Ontario, Canada, Orton spent most of his time in California where he resided. After the announced merger of Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) with ATI on July 24, 2006, as ATI Technologies became a subsidiary of AMD, Orton became an executive vice-president of AMD, reporting to AMD Chief Executive Officer Hector Ruiz and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer.
On July 10, 2007, AMD announced the resignation of Orton as executive vice president
One trade journalist rated Orton as the top of the "Chief executive officers that went in 2007". From 2007 to 2009 he served as Chief Executive Officer of the startup DSM Solutions. In July 15, 2009 Orton became the Chief Executive Officer of Aptina, a privately held image sensor company located in San Jose, California.
He left Aptina in September 2012.
He served on the board of directors of SuVolta.
