Dave Orton left and Rich Hegberg left as
they were not happy with how AMD treated ATI. Some sources inside said that ATI
is still considered as a step kid of AMD and that AMD bosses are not treating
ATI as nicely as they should.
Some sources said that Hector Ruiz, ex
Motorola man himself, prefers ex Motorola people over ex ATI. If you used to work
for Motorola you are likely to get a promotion easier than as ex ATI people, and that
is what Orton and Hegberg didn’t want to be part of it.
The scariest thought now is what happens if
one or both of these people go to run Intel’s discrete graphic unit also known
as project Larrabee. That simply gives us the creeps and Hector might be directly
responsible for it. Well done.