Dave Limp, Amazon’s Senior Vice President of Units and Providers, has introduced his Limp has been with the corporate for almost 14 years and, as his title suggests, oversaw Amazon’s transition into devoted {hardware} gadgets like Kindle e-readers, Alexa-enabled Echo audio system and the assorted Hearth-branded merchandise, amongst many others. Amazon makes a whole lot of stuff.

As for the reasoning behind the choice, Limp merely says that “it’s time,” noting that whereas he’s been at Amazon since 2010, he’s been doing the identical fundamental job at varied entities, like Apple and Palm, for 30 years. He’s not precisely retiring within the typical “cocktail on the seashore” sense, as Limp suggests in a weblog put up that he’ll seemingly proceed to work, simply not within the client electronics house. As for Amazon, he’ll keep on for the following few months till naming a successor.

In fact, Amazon’s Units and Providers division final 12 months and it’s been reported that the division operates at a staggering annual lack of round $5 billion,  It’s straightforward in charge both of those details for Limp’s departure, however many Amazon departments skilled not simply {hardware}, and the remainder of the trade adopted swimsuit. The {hardware} division operates at a loss, however there are actually a whole lot of Amazon gadgets in folks’s properties, with the corporate just lately touting the sale of 500 million Alexa-enabled devices. Every of those cute lil Alexas are always asking folks to purchase issues, so who is aware of how deeply these {hardware} gross sales funnel down into different income streams.

Nevertheless, he’s not the primary high-level govt to go away the corporate below CEO Andy Jassy, who took over from Jeff Bezos two years in the past. Different departures have included Worldwide Shopper CEO Dave Clark, media and leisure chief Jeff Blackburn, longtime Amazon Internet Providers govt Charlie Bell, world buyer success chief Alicia Boler Davis and world company affairs chief/former Obama staffer Jay Carney.