Why would Microsoft hire a chip expert?
InternetNews | at | by Mike
A troubled Silicon Valley company's pain seems to mean Microsoft's gain. For a while last year, there was a conga line of senior talent leaving Yahoo and heading to Redmond. Now Microsoft is benefiting from the troubles at Sun Microsystems with an unusual pickup.
Marc Tremblay, a Sun fellow and chief technology officer for its Microelectronics unit, is joining Microsoft as a "distinguished engineer." Tremblay quit the company last week but was only confirmed as a Microsoft hire this week, by the New York Times.