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Written by Chris Tom
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Thursday, 30 April 2009 10:12 |
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When Intel did it with Motorola they called it headhunting. I guess how dare you do that when it is Apple. Apple of course can do no wrong. Of course the journalism major twits use Apples, and therefor any reporting from them is invalid, and not worth the bits it streams on. The WSJ discusses Apple hiring people for chip design. Of course from where I'm sitting it sure looks like Apple headhunted Bob Drebin and Raja Koduri from AMD. Yeah, I remember these things. Fortune Magazine just listed Austin as the No. 1 city in the U.S. for technology companies. The same week Newsweek listed Austin first in its list of hot technology cities. The numbers are amazing. In 1989, the number of software firms doing business in Austin was 177. Today the number is over 600 and growing! Over 32 companies have gone public since 1994.
Many of you may not be aware that the PowerPC Chip (used in the Macintosh) and the AMD K6 line of processors are designed here in Austin. The city boasts a deep pool of leading edge chip designers. Intel has finally noticed. They recently announced the establishment of their newest Microprocessor Design Center here in Austin. This is good news and bad news For the city, it means that a very high concentration of processor design activity will be firmly rooted in Austin. For Motorola and AMD, it means a potential raid of their high- powered design talent. To make matters worse for Motorola, Intel has hired away one of their very best design leaders, Mark McDermott.
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