Comments on: Apple hires chip design luminary away from Samsung

By: vsp

vsp — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 04:45:26 +0000

I think Mergard was at Samsung not to do original work but was ordered to rip off the designs of other companies. Copiers do not want to wait years before reaping the fruits of their own labor. To copy will take only months to come out with imitation products. Mergard, being a true engineer, felt insulted with Samsung’s short-cut policy and decided to jump ship.

By: GeoX

GeoX — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 03:11:23 +0000

Exactly. Rumor has it upon hearing the news, Lee Kun-hee threw a loveseat and screamed, “Just tell me it’s not Apple!!!!!!!”

By: G

Fri, 12 Oct 2012 02:51:54 +0000

Ouch! That will leave a mark.
Samdung, like Giggle will rue the day that they decided to challenge their betters. There is lotsa $ to be made working with Apple, backstabbing Apple is a sure path destruction.

By: Craig

Craig — Fri, 12 Oct 2012 01:50:16 +0000

“When you worked for them”

Obviously that had been some time ago, and thats even if you did.

By: mrfergus

mrfergus — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:54:22 +0000

You don’t need talented design eng. when all you do is copy other peoples work, Mr. Mergard had to be less than impressed with Samsuck, and jumped at the chance to work for a real company instead of a thief.

By: mrfergus

mrfergus — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:47:35 +0000

I doubt that Apple is even close to hundreds, let alone thousands of chip engineers. They didn’t have that number when I worked for them, and even thought they have purchased several small chip design companies, hundreds is still a stretch. Where do you get your inflated statistics?

By: Adam

Adam — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:42:33 +0000

I bet that was a tense last day at SamCo.

By: althegeo

althegeo — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 23:15:46 +0000

Run the whole friggin’ team.

By: abcd

abcd — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:25:50 +0000

For a company like Apple that has hundreds if not thousands of chip engineers, what does an “outside person” do?

By: G

Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:20:19 +0000

This appears to be a TNW pre-emptive strike from Apple.

Somewhere at sometime I read SPJ reaction to the Segway, basically he said it wouldn’t make $ because it was easily copied.

IMO this is another notch in Apple’s ‘There is no way you can copy this Sh!t with off the shelve (cheap) parts’ belt.

Go Apple!

By: Jk

Jk — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 22:11:45 +0000

I still don’t see this happening on the current PC platform. By the time Apple created a worthy chip and reengineered OSX to take advantage, the PC industry will hopefully be much different. I expect Apple to be targeting future iOS devices and other post PC devices. We will see in a few years. More chip designers is a good thing for apple though.