Jim Mergard is the man who chose to leave Samsung for Apple and I think we will hear a lot about it in the future. At Samsung Mergard worked as a chip designer and was an important member of the team that develops the future chips that were going to end up either in mobile terminals or even in laptops or servers. Mergard worked for 16 years at AMD, was vice president there and specializes in the development of chips for low-end laptops, servers and more recently mobile terminals, and Apple can say that it is very lucky from when he managed to hire him.
At Samsung Mergard worked mainly on the development of chips for servers, but at Apple he could without problems assume another role, perhaps even more important. In recent years, Apple has developed its own chips for iDevices, this year it even designed the processors from those chips, and the company's intention to move forward is clear. Apple probably wants to develop its own hardware for all its products, it wants to give up its dependence on third-party manufacturers, and by hiring such people it has a good chance of succeeding.
