[Fool] Intel mobile gets another blow: Aicha Evans leaving

[Dresdenboy]

Then between 1998 and 1999 he worked at AMD. People claim that he is responsible for the success that was K8 but clearly with 1 year there he couldn't have done much.

AFAIK he was involved in Hypertransport specifications (might have been a boring task) and in the cancelled K8 project.

Another question is, how much he was involved in individual core projects, not just in high level uarch stuff. From what I know in my environment, detailed knowledge quickly fades to some heuristics while climbing up the career ladder. "Big pictures" is what's being worked on. But there's always the risk, that big pictures fail in the details, while their simplified mind models still made some sense.

Next to Suzanne Plummer is Mike Clark, an AMD veteran since .. IDK K5 or K6 days. Maybe this is a special kind of team, as Suzanne's son is Alex Clark.

Rick Merritt says this is Venkata Renduchintala cleaning house. Makes sense, he's been on the job for long enough that he's going to make the division into what he envisions.

I don't think this has anything to do with AMD or Zen. This is the new guy getting rid of the old regime (and any potential challengers to the throne).

I don't think so either (was just some fun). What you say makes sense.

He speculates Evans got the boot because she failed to get a design win in the iPhone 7 [or iPhone SE?].

Ashraf speculates it's because she's frustrated, I'd rather think it's incompetence of her / her team.

I don't know, how much Apple is interested in external solutions, as long as they can do it in-house. There are the not-invented-here syndrome, long term R&D investments, etc.