Apple has hired Jim Mergard, a prominent chip designer, away from Samsung, reports the WSJ.
The gadget maker has hired Jim Mergard, a 16-year veteran of Advanced Micro Devices AMD +1.59% who was a vice president and chief engineer there before he left for Samsung. He is known for playing a leading role in the development of a high-profile AMD chip that carried the code name Brazos and was designed for low-end portable computers.
Patrick Moorhead, a former AMD executive who now leads the research firm Moor Insights & Strategy, told the Journal that Mergard has deep expertise in SoCs–systems on a chip–that combine various kinds of special-function circuitry on a single piece of silicon.
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The gadget maker has hired Jim Mergard, a 16-year veteran of Advanced Micro Devices AMD +1.59% who was a vice president and chief engineer there before he left for Samsung. He is known for playing a leading role in the development of a high-profile AMD chip that carried the code name Brazos and was designed for low-end portable computers.
Patrick Moorhead, a former AMD executive who now leads the research firm Moor Insights & Strategy, told the Journal that Mergard has deep expertise in SoCs–systems on a chip–that combine various kinds of special-function circuitry on a single piece of silicon.
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