Apple Hires at Least a Dozen Former AMD Employees for an 'Orlando GPU Team', Still Hiring More

[69650]

Please can I have a job in Orlando.

 

[jonathan1683]

Quite insulting here, aren't you? When a company closes down, or a part of a company goes down, usually everyone in that part loses their job, regardless of their individual qualifications. I suppose you wouldn't hire anyone without job experience, and you youldn't hire anyone who has so little loyalty that they leave their previous company. Which doesn't leave many people.

I don't honestly think you know how the world works at all. You don't fire top talent due to location, nor do you care about loyalty when recruiting top talent. In the end everyone is looking for a paycheck including the employers. I have been through many waves of layoffs and the first to go are support staff and the ones that don't produce profit for the companies. I also didn't mean to insult you personally I am just stating my opinion.

 

[holmesf]

Exactly what I was thinking. Hiring the rejects from failing company.

That's just stupid. Because the company isn't doing well financially it must mean the engineers are rejects? Please.

The history of the PC CPU industry is littered with failed companies like a graveyard. As technology improves it has taken more and more billions of dollars to design and fabricate these chips to the point that fewer and fewer players can afford to play the game. Intel is the only company in the entire industry that currently has the resources to design their own high performance x86 chips and fabricate them (AMD is fabless). No one else can compete in that space. No one.

Does that make the engineers at AMD rejects? I'd say as the sole competitor Intel has left, the company has done pretty well!

 

[melgross]

I don't honestly think you know how the world works at all. You don't fire top talent due to location, nor do you care about loyalty when recruiting top talent. In the end everyone is looking for a paycheck including the employers. I have been through many waves of layoffs and the first to go are support staff and the ones that don't produce profit for the companies. I also didn't mean to insult you personally I am just stating my opinion.

Actually, you do fire top talent from a location. It depends on what the location was doing. if what they were doing is not considered to be essential, and you're closing it down, the employees, including most of the managers, will go away with it. You're assuming that there will be spots for these "top" people. Often, there aren't.

AMD is a problem company. Their options are shrinking. While they are coming out with a nice line of low power SoCs, it won't be enough to keep everyone. They're changing their focus as a company, and these people obviously don't fit that focus.

 

[mixinmaster]

Apple HDTV

Sounds to me like this Apple iTV or HDTV is about to get much more powerful and bring a good fight to the giants in the market.... xbox1 PS4 WiiU and im all for it

 

[adamtore]

Since English is not my main language, whats the difference between "laid off" and "fired".

 

[chrmjenkins]

Since English is not my main language, whats the difference between "laid off" and "fired".

Fired means terminated. Laid off is functionally equivalent to firing in that you're out of work for several months, but there's usually an implicit promise to bring you back once circumstances change. It happens a lot to seasonal manual labor workers.