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businessweek.com - 4/28/2009

New Gear from Apple and Verizon Wireless?

— businessweek.com — (more) New Gear from Apple and Verizon Wireless?

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theinquirer.net - 4/27/2009

Bob Drebin turns up at Apple

— theinquirer.net — Lots of hardware expertise lately By Charlie Demerjian Monday, 27 April 2009, 16:52 IT LOOKS LIKE Apple... is beefing up it's hardware expertise rather quickly. First came PASemi , now it has hired Bob Drebin , formerly of DAAMIT. Drebin was CTO of ... (more) Bob Drebin turns up at Apple

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digitaldaily.allthingsd.com - 4/27/2009

What’s Apple Building in There?

— digitaldaily.allthingsd.com — Apple (AAPL) has fleshed out its chip design group with another key hire. The company has hired... Bob Drebin , former CTO of AMD’s Graphics Products Group, on as a senior director . Apple won’t say what it is exactly that Drebin’s to do for it, ... (more) What’s Apple Building in There?

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Apple snags ATI, AMD graphics vet
Macworld — ... from the CPU, for those times when the GPU’s resources aren’t being taxed by something as intensive as game-playing. Of course, for all we know, he’s working on some other project entirely (please say Star Wars -style holograms, pleeeeease). Apple doesn’t always tout its personnel—Drebin’s no exception; you won’t find record of his hire anywhere on the company’s public site—but his addition to the company suggests that Apple is taking a vested interest in graphics processing. [via Ars Technica ]

Apple’s mysterious chip plot thickens
MacDailyNews — ... no idea what GPU Apple will put on its forthcoming SoC, but at least we know the guy who will almost certainly make that call," Stokes writes. "It was clear enough at this past year's GDC that both Apple and developers are serious about the iPhone and iPod touch as mobile gaming platforms, so I expect that job one for Drebin will be to make Apple's handhelds—both the models that exist and any that are still unannounced—into serious mobile gaming contenders." More in the full article here . MacDailyNews Take: We recommend that senior executives of mobile device makers who ...

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Apple Hires Former AMD Graphics Expert
InformationWeek - All Stories And Blogs — Apple has hired a former chief technology officer from Advanced Micro Devices' graphics unit, fueling speculation that the computer maker may expanding its work on the graphics technology within the iPod Touch and iPhone. According to his Linkedin profile, Bob Drebin has been hired as a senior director at Apple. Drebin was CTO of the Graphics Products Group within the ATI unit at AMD. AMD bought ATI Technologies in 2006. Drebin was an engineering director and fellow at ATI. AMD's graphics works once extended beyond the PC and into mobile ...

Apple Hires Former AMD Graphics Expert
TechWeb — Apple has hired a former chief technology officer from Advanced Micro Devices' graphics unit, fueling speculation that the computer maker may expanding its work on the graphics technology within the iPod Touch and iPhone. According to his Linkedin profile, Bob Drebin has been hired as a senior director at Apple. Drebin was CTO of the Graphics Products Group within the ATI unit at AMD. AMD bought ATI Technologies in 2006. Drebin was an engineering director and fellow at ATI. AMD's graphics works once extended beyond the PC and into mobile ...