Nvidia's Top Mobile Business Exec Mike Rayfield Resigns
Nvidia has confirmed that Mike Rayfield, vice president and general manager of the company's Mobile business unit, has resigned. His departure will was effective on August 24.
There was no further information other than Rayfield will be taking on a role at "another company". No announcement about this new role has been made and Rayfield's LinkedIn profile still stated his position as "VP/GM Mobile Business Unit" at Nvidia at the time of this writing.
Growing competition among ARM chip makers, in addition to the efforts of Intel and AMD to hold x86 architecture against ARM has turned into a catalyst of a job carousel that has involved Apple, AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, TI, as well as component makers such as Synaptics.
Rayfield joined Nvidia in 2005 from Stretch. Prior to that he held executive positions in sales and business development at Texas Instruments, Growth Networks and Cisco.
Maybe they're members of the Illuminati and are preparing for the end of the world.
... No, probably not.
Conspiracy... be their powers combined, Cyrix will launch a new CPU, with integrated GPU and RAM built right in....
Either this is a very stupid kind of trolling, or those guys feel that The End of The World is coming closer.
I'm not enthusiastic about the Tegra platform. It's been over-hyped as a graphical-capable platform, but for general-use, it feels like no one has programed optimally for it (to the point where I think that Nvidia hadn't done enough on the programming-support side). That's my uninformed opinion.
Apple is a product (and content-providing) company. They might have ARM design engineers employed, but they're a product company first. You can't run an engineering-oriented company like a product company and expect much of anything good. And if companies were run like Apple, we'd still be choked on Pentium 4's, with zero continual progress on the next newer technologies simply because we're dictated that "that's enough for anything you need to do." Thanks but no thanks. Not to mention the fact that Apple cares about dictating what their customers can do with their product, as opposed to the opposite which is necessary for development--listen to what your customers WANT to do. If you understood anything about Apple--pick up the SJ biography and you'll learn a bit--you'll know that it's all about funneling the customer into what Apple wants it to do, rather than allowing the customer to do what they want. You can't run every business with that mindset.
Time for a new blood.