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AMD Lures IBM Veteran to Lead Chip Design
Rob writes "Computer Business Review is reporting that Advanced Micro Devices yesterday said it had hired Jeff VerHeul away from IBM to
lead the direction of AMD's future silicon design. VerHeul's most recent post during his
25-year stint at IBM was head of engineering and technology services. Now, he will lead
the development of all future AMD computing products, including silicon roadmap design
across all AMD's engineering sites worldwide."
Who else is waiting for the next slashdot story
"ex-IBM Engineer sued for violating non compete agreement"
this must mean that AMD will switch to PowerPC!!!
In other news...
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I'm a big tall mofo.
Maybe this IBM veteran is attracted to designing a lead chip, but there will be no market for it in Europe. Chips containing lead will be banned next year due to the RoHS directive...
Let's face it, there hasn't been a major breakthrough in chip design since Lays produced their first prototype of the "crinkle cut".
Athletic Scholarships to universities make as much sense as academic scholarships to sports teams.
Exactly. As I understand it, IBM developed and owns the 64-bit board architecture. Just a small thing.
Xbox reviews.. We think they're funny.
Hopefully this will give nex-gen AMD chips a fresh design and hopefully push them to a significant majority over Intel.
This will not happen. Intel's marketing prowess is much better than its competition. What would scare Intel (and the others) is a revolutionary new chip that solves a major problem in the industry. Consider that all processor architectures are based on and optimized for the algorithm, a custom started by a guy named Babbage more than 150 years ago. Progress has only been incremental since.
A really new architecture should abandon the algorithmic model and adopt a non-algorithmic, signal-based synchronous software model. It would revolutionize computing and solve the nastiest problem in the computer industry: software unreliability.
But we cannot expect big companies like Intel, AMD and IBM to be truly innovative. Their approach is evolutionary, not revolutionary. Hopefully a bright upstart will get the message and make a killing while the behemoths are busy fighting each other for market share. They won't know what hit them until it is too late.
The message is that there is a solution to the software reliability crisis. The disadvantage is that it will require a radical change in both processor architecture and software construction methodology. But the advantage is too good to ignore: 100% software reliability! Guaranteed!
Opteron and MCA, together at last! What more could anybody want?
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"Outlook not so good." That magic 8-ball knows everything! I'll ask about Exchange Server next.
I can't wait until our office has no Windows. :-P
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