The company also hired Jim Mergard, a leading computer chip designer from Samsung who had spent 16 years at Advanced Micro Devices as a vice president and chiefengineer there before he left for Samsung.
"There are issues we have seen that we will need to work through and just like any new airplane program we work through those issues and we move on, " said Mike Sinnett, Boeing vice president and chief project engineer for the 787, during a conference call with reporters on Wednesday.