On the same day that AMD CEO Dirk Meyer resigns, it's announced that longtime Microsoft executive Bob Muglia will also step down this summer, as different cycles need "new and different talent," according to a memo from CEO Steve Ballmer
Bill Dally, the company's chief scientist and senior vice-president of research, forecasts a time when GPUs, not CPUs, will do most computer work. CPUs "burn a lot of power" executing tasks that may be unnecessary in today's computing environment, he added