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Two Apple VPs exit to -- you guessed it -- spend more time with family
According to a press release issued by Apple this morning, two Apple vice presidents are leaving the company for personal reasons, "as they devote more time to their young family."
iPod division senior vice president Tony Fadell and his wife, Danielle Lambert, vice president of human resources, will "reduce their roles" at Apple. Lambert will stay until the end of the year to transition to a successor.
"Tony and Dani have each made important contributions to Apple over the past eight years. We're sorry to see Dani go, and are looking forward to working with Tony in his new capacity," said Steve Jobs in the press release.
Former IBM chip executive Mark Papermaster will be joining Apple later this month to replace Fadell, and will gain the new title of Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering. He's expected to bring his 25 years of experience to Apple's server technologies, as well.
Papermaster unfortunately arrives with some baggage: IBM filed suit against Papermaster attempting to forbid him from taking his knowledge of the Power chip architecture to other companies.
IBM said in a statement to CNET that "Mr. Papermaster's employment by Apple is a violation of his agreement with IBM against working for a competitor should he leave IBM. We will vigorously pursue this case in court."
[Via MacDailyNews.]
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Flaystus said 10:36AM on 11-04-2008
Yeah he's leaving with all that PPC info thats SO valuable that Apple dumped the chips.
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mabhatter said 5:54PM on 11-04-2008
Wii is based on PowerPC, PS3 is based partially on PowerPC, Xbox 360 is based on PowerPC.... Toshiba Cell is a joint venture... SoI is loaned out to AMD, and of course POWER 6 runs IBM Z, i, & p series mainframe and midrange servers.
I think between those few hobby projects there might be something with a few bucks.
Then you have the embedded Motorolla chips in printer, scanners, cameras, copiers, routers etc...
Apple just bought a PowerPC design shop. Knowing what IBM can make the chips really do is highly interesting.. If say Apple was interested competing with any of the above electronics.
Matthew Lozano said 10:45AM on 11-04-2008
Once again people are worried about the wrong thing. PPC knowledge is next to useless now. Wasting money seems to be these guys real strong suit.
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ack154 said 11:01AM on 11-04-2008
Actually... I didn't guess it. I had no idea why they were leaving.
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Modano said 8:46PM on 11-04-2008
Papermaster is a badass name.
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brian said 11:48AM on 11-04-2008
dude....for 2 secs I thought the VPs where the people in the photo untill I say "not actual photos"....irontical.
But as long Mr. Jobs is there, Apple need not worry....
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Level 5 said 11:53AM on 11-04-2008
I highly doubt should Jobs exit or retire that it would mean the immidiate nosedive of Apple.
James Donevan said 12:07PM on 11-04-2008
"I highly doubt should Jobs exit or retire that it would mean the immidiate nosedive of Apple."
We heard that 23 years ago as well.
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Level 5 said 8:08PM on 11-04-2008
We absolutely did, and while the company HAS been at its lowest without Jobs, it wasn't an immediate catastrophe.
Adam said 5:53PM on 11-05-2008
do you honestly think he'll be working on PPC? hahhaha
Mark Papermaster + P.A. SEMI = big smiles for all of us!
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grull27 said 12:21PM on 11-04-2008
I love how TUAW has to put "not actual photos." lol
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vandil said 4:03PM on 11-04-2008
Don't forget that the Cell processor is a PPC chip! The Cell processor can be found in the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3. With Apple's recent plung into handheld gaming and an interest in the past with games consoles (look up "Pippin" on Wikipedia), having intimate knowledge of PPC architecture could be quite useful on the gaming front.
The server experience mentioned in the release is what interests me. Apple's Xserve is in dire need of redesign, especially for huge datacenters and small businesses. Right now, even the Mac Mini is killing the Xserve!
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Otsego_Undead said 4:58PM on 11-04-2008
"spend more time with family" like the Corlenones
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