Apple has been rumored to be working on developing its own chips for some time now and it looks like the fruit company is starting to get more aggressive with the hiring of graphic architects and hardware engineers. This is partly because of AMD laying off a number of employees due to corporate reorganization last [...]

It hasn’t been officially announced yet, but AllThingsD has it on good authority that processor maker AMD has plans to cut up to 30 percent of their workforce. Given that the company currently employees around 11,100 people, that means as many as 3,300 jobs could be on the chopping block. The official word from AMD is [...]

According to the Wall Street Journal’s Digits blog, Apple has snatched up Jim Mergard, a chip designer who served as AMD’s chief engineer before working for Samsung. It seems that the most valuable publicly traded company in the world was able to give Mergard an offer he couldn’t refuse. Mergard may be a very useful [...]

One of the key architects of some of Apple’s recent CPUs is leaving the company to join AMD. Jim Keller, who’s been with Apple since their 2008 acquisition of PA Semi, is leaving to join his former Apple coworker Mark Papermaster. Keller is the man behind some of Apple’s biggest processor designs, including the A4 [...]