Monday, April 30th 2018
Intel Scores Another Top AMD Exec - Chris Hook Confirmed to Join Company
Chris Hook, the head of marketing at AMD Radeon Technologies Group (RTG), who resigned from AMD a few weeks ago, joined Intel. Hook will hold the position of head of discrete graphics marketing, confirming rumors of Intel making heavy investments into the development of a discrete GPU that can double up as a super-scalar processor, enabling the company to compete with NVIDIA and AMD for slices of the AI and blockchain computing gold-rush, with PC gaming as a fallback market. Jim Keller, Raja Koduri, and Chris Hook make up key names from AMD to have joined Intel in recent times. Keller was the lead architect of AMD "Zen," who after a brief stint at Tesla, joined Intel earlier this month.
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Once money is no longer an issue, people are motivated by 3 things.
Mastery
Purpose
Autonomy
If Intel is not offering these guys those things, I imagine their stints there will be brief.
As for the rest could be a matter of $$ to make them want to stay awhile.
And here is the relevant law section mentioned in the article: leginfo.legislature.ca.gov/faces/codes_displaySection.xhtml?lawCode=BPC§ionNum=16600.
16600.
Except as provided in this chapter, every contract by which anyone is restrained from engaging in a lawful profession, trade, or business of any kind is to that extent void.
The courts in California have repeatedly upheld that this does, in fact, mean that non-competes are not able to be enforced; there are restrictions, but they appear only to owners selling businesses. This does not mean that they can freely take any IP they worked on to a different company, however, as this is covered by a different section of law.