Re:Apple to set up first dev center outside of CA in Israel
by 9oliYQjP on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @02:11PM
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An Israel engineering team saved Intel in the mid 2000s from its Netburst architecture decision. They built a higher performing CPU than the Pentium 4 that was also more energy efficient. Apple's decision is probably to just move closer to where that talent is. I wonder if they'll actually try to poach those Intel engineers.
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Re:Apple to set up first dev center outside of CA in Israel
by jws on Wednesday December 14, 2011 @03:32PM
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CPU designer poaching has a long and glorious history.
In the '90s Intel drove a pretty good stake into the PowerPC by building a CPU design center in Austin and hiring away critical parts of the Motorola team which was working up the street.
In the '70s MOS picked up a disgruntled Motorola team and made the 6502.
Motorola won lawsuits in both events, but lost the wars.