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The Papermaster joins Apple as Senior Vice President of Devices Hardware Engineering
Nope. He's going to be in charge of Apple’s iPod® and iPhone™ hardware. I guess that is more fun than blade servers. It is strange that IBM is suing as Papermaster's new role shouldn't affect IBM at all. It also marks the departure of Tony Fadell, "father of the iPod". 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 senior vice president of Devices Hardware Engineering, reporting to Apple CEO Steve Jobs. Papermaster, who comes to Apple from IBM, will lead Apple’s iPod® and iPhone™ hardware engineering teams. Papermaster has 25 years of product and technology experience, and was previously a vice president at IBM. Apple also announced that Tony Fadell, Apple’s senior vice president of the iPod Division, and his wife Danielle Lambert, vice president of Human Resources, are reducing their roles within the company as they devote more time to their young family. Fadell will remain at Apple as an advisor to the CEO. Lambert will depart the company at the end of this year after a successor is in place. “Mark is a seasoned leader and is going to be an excellent addition to our senior management team,” said Steve Jobs, Apple’s CEO. “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.” Papermaster has a Bachelors of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from the University of Texas, and Masters of Science in Electrical Engineering from the University of Vermont in 1988. He is active with the University of Texas where he is a member of the Electrical and Computer Engineering Advisory Council. Apple ignited the personal computer revolution in the 1970s with the Apple II and reinvented the personal computer in the 1980s with the Macintosh. Today, Apple continues to lead the industry in innovation with its award-winning computers, OS X operating system and iLife and professional applications. Apple is also spearheading the digital media revolution with its iPod portable music and video players and iTunes online store, and has entered the mobile phone market with its revolutionary iPhone. Press Contact:
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bru-haha = brouhaha
sueing=suing
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if they wanted a spell
if they wanted a spell checker they would have used their Safari browser to check it for them. Spelling errors and trolls aside....
The topic on hand, I think it's great that Papermaster is going to be over the hardware part of the iPhone and iPod, and with the reccent aqusition of PA Semi this is only going to further their mobile processors and help out the hand held devices in the future product lines.
We might even see some sort of middle class mobile device like a tablet come out of this as well. Don't count on it with the MacBook being a very reasonable size, and the iPhone and iPod Touch being a very powerful and mobile device.
But having someone who knows a good deal about processor technology is going to help when they go to build a new compact yet powerful mobile processor for these small devices. We might even see a nice Dual Core 1.2Ghz mobile processor in side the iPhone for the next version :) Just a nice want, but very possible given a year or two. Maybe we can get some more RAM built in. But having a Dual Core processor for a device such as the iPhone would allow for one processor handle all the possible background tasks and core apps, then have an additional processor to handle all other apps. Just a thoughts....but I think having a dual core processor in a mobile device would be wonderful especially for those of us wanting background tasks without sacrificing processing power.
But good luck to Papermaster, I am sure he will do a great job. Atleast I hope so with such a large product line laying in his hands in the future.
Why is Tony Fadell leaving?
Why is Tony Fadell leaving? What's the scoop??
dude, this makes total sense.
dude, this makes total sense. supposedly this guy has a truckloads of experience with the PowerPC architecture that PA Semi is steeped in, and Jobs said their talent will be used for designing system-on-chips for iPods & iPhones. it all makes sense to me.