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Apple Hires Hardcore Graphics Guy To Build Something

By Jason Chen Published April 27, 2009, 7:21 pm ET

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It’s unclear what Bob Drebin, CTO of AMD’s graphics group, previous creator of Nintendo GameCube’s graphic chip, is going to do at Apple, but our guess is either make a graphics chip for an iPhone/Tablet/eBook, or work on Snow Leopard’s GPU processing. [All Things D]

https://gizmodo.com/mac-os-10-6-snow-leopard-revealed-multi-core-optimized-5014789

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