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Why did Apple hire away IBM’s Mark Papermaster?
MacDailyNews —
... (PA Semi's PWREfficient was in the running to replace the IBM G5 when Apple moved to Intel). PA Semi, as a unit of Apple, is still fulfilling PowerPC contracts for embedded systems for military and other uses," Weintraub reports. "But will the final product that Apple is working on be a PowerPC processor? Probably not. One of PA Semi's engineers let slip a few months ago that he is working on an ARM-based processor that will be in future Apple products." More in the full article here .
The Papermaster joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Well that mystery is solved. Sort of. The big bru-haha over IBM's departing blade server director, Mark Papermaster that was going to join forces with the PA Semi people at Apple and take over the chip making world?
Nope.
He's going to be in charge of Apple’s iPod® and iPhone™ hardware. I guess that is more fun than blade servers. From Apple:
Mark Papermaster Joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering
CUPERTINO, California—November 4, 2008—Apple® today announced that Mark Papermaster is joining the Company as ...
Mark Papermaster must cease his role at Apple according to judge...
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
The Mark Papermaster saga is getting crazier and crazier. As of today, Papermaster "will immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc. until further order of this court," U.S. District Judge Kenneth Karas in White Plains, New York, said today in an order issued after markets closed.
While a big blow to Apple, the case is far from over. In a deposition today, Papermaster said that in the 25 years he has worked at IBM, they have never competed directly with Apple.
While that seems like a bit of a stretch (remember the 1984 commercial? That wasn't Blackberry), it does seem that, ...
Judge tells Apple exec to stop work
The Apple Core —
... that U.S. District Court judge Kenneth Karas ordered that Papermaster “immediately cease his employment with Apple Inc until further order of this court” because he might be violating a one-year non-compete agreement he signed with his former employer, IBM. ComputerWorld’s Seth Weintraub reports that Papermaster agreed that he will not (within 1 year of termination) “engage in or associate with (a) any ‘Business Enterprise’ or (b) any significant competitor or major competitor of the Company…”. Since it probably wouldn’t be too much of a stretch to call Apple a “significant” ...
Mark Papermaster erased from existance on Apple web page
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Because of the ongoing litigation, Mark Papermaster has been removed from the executive bios on Apple's webpage. Fear not, the Papermaster lives on in Apple's PR section. Screenshot of the removed bio is below to live on in perpetuity:
Via C|Net
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IBM forced to pay $3 million bond to continue Papermaster case
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
The stakes keep getting higher and higher in the Mark Papermaster case. Last week, a New York Judge ordered that Mark Papermaster quit working at Apple until further order from the court. This week, that same court has ordered IBM pay a $3 million dollar bond in the event that Papermaster was found to be damaged by the suit.
The $3 million bond is designed to pay for any costs or damages that Papermaster might suffer if it's later determined that IBM wasn't entitled to an injunction.
Karas noted that district courts are allowed "wide discretion" in setting ...
Apple is putting the pieces together for a low cost mobile platform
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... earlier this year and bringing in IBM's Mark Papermaster are also seen as moves to bring this all together. Although they haven't yet been outted, Apple is also ...
Papermaster to join Apple on April 24th
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
It looks like the Mark Papermaster/IBM hiring saga is over. Apple today released the news in a Press Release entitled "Mark Papermaster to Begin at Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering on April 24". According to Apple, the litigation between IBM and Mark Papermaster has been resolved. In other words, some cash changed hands. We hope he was worth it.
Papermaster will inherit outgoing iPod chief Tony Fadell's turf along with other devices that spring from the iPhone and iPod touch ...
Mark Papermaster finally gets a yearbook picture
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
Apple Senior Vice President, Devices Hardware Engineering, Mark Papermaster finally got his headshot in the Apple Bios. You might remember he was involved in the IBM lawsuit to keep him from going to Apple, which was eventually resolved with undisclosed amounts of greenbacks.
Until now, there wasn't much floating around the web with his likeness. He obviously got the black shirt not-optional memo.
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Apple would have transitioned to the Cell processor had it sticked with PowerPC, but too expensive
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... who had been familiar with the IBM PowerPC-Apple relations at the time. He/She(/Papermaster?) had some interesting insights into the situation at the time. ...
Is Apple building its own GPUs? Maaaaybe.
9 to 5 Mac - Apple Intelligence —
... Their new boss? Mark Papermaster, a guy with chip knowledge so important to IBM that they sued Apple to prevent him from joining. ...
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