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AMD Lures IBM Veteran to Lead Chip Design

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the drawing-on-experience dept.

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."

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  1. AMD will produce the Cell by o_miljac · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I bet AMD will produce the Cell chips.

  2. Gaming (slightly OT) by kevin_conaway · · Score: 0, Redundant

    This is slightly off topic but I've heard that AMD chips are supposedly better for gaming than their Intel equivalents.

    Is this marketing hype? User hype? Any truth or unsubstantiated personal anecdotes to confirm or deny?

  3. Re:Lead chip design? by RandoX · · Score: 0, Redundant

    I'll assume that this was a serious post and point out that in this context, lead is a verb.