Wowza. If I moved to a direct competitor like that, my employee contract "non-compete" clause would be brought out immediately. And I'm no C-level executive, just an individual contributor. I wish Washington had California's non-compete law.
I feel like non-competes are similar to parents these days. Everyone has tons of patents and everyone is infringing on everyone else so they just agree to pay licensing fees to one another and never go to war.
I’m certain AMD has hired their share of Intel people by now, its a no win.