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Apple Poaches Top IBM Chip Designer, IBM Sues Back
MacBlogz - One Stop Apple News — ... As Cnet points out, if Apple ever decides to try and dominate the enterprise market, Papermaster’s position with the company could allow them to heavily focus on a beefed up ...

IBM Sues to Keep Chip Design Guru from Joining Apple
Cult of Mac — ... Apple’s continuing quest to develop in-house microprocessor design capabilities hit a roadblock today, when IBM filed suit seeking to block one of its chief design architects from joining the Apple team. ...

IBM sues brainiac looking to leap to Apple; Download the docs
Between the Lines — ... ). CNET News’ Tom Krazit speculates that Papermaster’s hiring may indicate Apple is serious about its Xserve enterprise lineup. However, that theory may be a stretch. More likely is Papermaster’s blade knowledge will be used to support Apple’s nascent cloud services ( ...

Apple Hires IBM's Top Blade Server Developer Mark Papermaster
eWeek - RSS Feeds — ... unit until last week, signed a noncompete agreement with IBM that would prevent him from accepting a job with a competitor until one year after leaving IBM. IBM said Papermaster was one of its top 300 managers and had access to a wide range of the company's intellectual property and trade secrets. Papermaster, who was with IBM for the past 26 years, served as a member of the company's Integration & Values Team since 2006. Oct 31 (Reuters) - International Business Machines Corp sued a top executive on Thursday to prevent him from ...

The Papermaster Chase
Digital Daily — Apple’s (AAPL) efforts to build it’s own chip development brain trust out of its acquisition of PA Semi have run afoul of IBM (IBM). Mark Papermaster, a 26-year IBM veteran and vice president of its Blade Development unit — a division that designs corporate data centers, plans to take a new job with Apple in early November and Big Blue is doing its damndest to stop him. The company has filed suit against Papermaster claiming his noncompete agreement with IBM prohibits him from taking a job with Apple. “Mr. Papermaster’s employment by Apple is a violation of his agreement with IBM against working for a competitor should he leave IBM,” ...

Apple poaches IBM chip guy Mark Papermaster [Lawsuits]
Gawker: valleywag — Who's Mark Papermaster, the chip guru Apple and IBM are scrapping over? Here's one clue: He's the kind of guy who has no photos online. There used to be a "Mark Papermaster" profile on Facebook, but it's gone. No wonder he wants to disappear: Apple hired Papermaster, formerly a VP at IBM, http://www.macblogz.com/2008/10/30/apple-poaches-top-ibm-chip-designer-ibm-sues-back/possibly to run its PA Semi chip-design subsidiary. Apple switched to Intel chips for its Macs years ago, but after it bought PA Semi, speculation grew that it might use some variation on IBM's Power chips for the iPhone and iPod. Papermaster could help with that. IBM is suing ...

Odd timing for big Apple news
Docu-Drama — [image] Let’s see. An  historic presidential election is coming to a climax with a surge of voters causing long lines at polling places. The nation, even the world, shivers with anticipation over the results. Good time to release significant pieces of personnel news? That’s what Apple did this morning by posting a press releas e announcing the hiring of an ex-IBM vice president, Mark Papermaster, to head up its devices hardware engineering division. The news had actually been reported last week by CNet , via a court filing in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York in which IBM claimed that Papermaster would be working closely with Apple CEO ...