New Talent at AMD

AMD’s Boston Design Studio is taking in the homeless. What? You didn’t know that AMD had a Boston Design studio? Silly Wabbit, where do you think many of the disenfranchised SUN and HP (nee Digital Equipment) engineers were supposed to go when the UltraSPARC and ALPHA processors were canned?

Having taken aim at a 10 percent share of the server market (currently, it’s not quite that close), these guys will be important to AMD. And not to overplay the “sloppy seconds” effect, but server CPU stuff almost always migrates down to (or up to, if you ask the parties involved) the desktop crowd –because gamers have such high requirements for processor performance and that’s a lucrative market.

No, that’s not another subtle plug for Doom 3….

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