The former marketing chief of chipmaker Advanced Micro Devices is taking over a similar post at Mellanox, a start-up banking on the future success of InfiniBand high-speed communications technology. Dana Krelle, former vice president of marketing at AMD, is now the leader of marketing at Mellanox, a company representative confirmed Monday. Krelle left AMD in 2000 along with former AMD President Atiq Raza to form Raza Foundries. Raza's group joined Intel, Sequoia Capital, US Venture Partners and others who invested $25.7 million in Mellanox in 2000. More recent investors include Dell Computer and Sun Microsystems.
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