[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[RolloTheGreat]

(a bunch of stuff that is likely very true) 

Remember when Bulldozer launched an ex-AMD engineer said a lot of it was designed by computer simulations instead of human engineers because they were running out of staff and that was the reason it was such a mess?

I wonder if the same thing is going on here, or if the loss of engineering talent is just catching up with them?

Obviously if your were at the top of your game, you're not thinking,"I need to be at AMD". You'd work for intel, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, etc to maximize earning and growth potential.