“Apple has hired at least a dozen former AMD graphics engineers for its Orlando offices in recent months, according to a MacRumors review of employees’ LinkedIn profiles,” Jordan Golson reports for MacRumors.
“The majority of hires, which include a graphics architect, hardware engineer and others, occurred in January of this year,” Golson reports. “AMD laid off a number of employees last year in a corporate reorganization, and fired more in January.”
Golson writes, “It seems likely that Apple hired a number of the laid off Orlando AMD engineers for a new team it’s building in the region.”
Read more in the full article here.
[Thanks to MacDailyNews Reader “Lynn Weiler” for the heads up.]
This could be interesting. Could it be for the new iWatch or iTV? Maybe the new iMacs?
Naa. It’s more like apple trying to become more independent by trying to setup a team by trying to build (a certain chip) so they don’t have to out-source from companies who will just end up sueing them because of some bullshit reason.
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APPLE IS DOOMED!! FIRE TIM COOK!!! APPLE, SPEND YOUR MONEY!!! #fud #analysts #morons
sorry about the dupes
You are the dupe. Or is that dope?
Sarcasm is beyond your comprehension, is it?
I’m glad someone got it. Thanks.
Wait a minute – does this mean Apple is picking up AMD’s B players?
Better Apple hiring these people than hiring Sergiy Stakhovsky as tennis coach.
Apple’s true intention ….. to make sure OSX works well with AMD graphics. They will then make a grab for AMD. Leaving Intel in the cold.
That is great. They will probably be working on the A-series of chips. Looking forward to their contributions.