Talent Wars

The revolving doors in Silicon Valley are nothing new, but within the last two or so years the migration at the superstar techno level has been particularly intense—especially in the GPU and CPU space. Some recent examples: Martin Ashton served as EVP of PowerVR Multimedia IP at Imagination Technologies Group Plc until December 1, 2016 where he was instrumental in developing PowerVR graphics technology. He then moved to Intel, and most recently has moved on to AMD. Jim Keller was corporate VP and chief cores architect at AMD, where he led the development of the Zen architecture. Previously, Keller was