Dec 6, 2010 11:40 GMT  ·  By

It appears that Rob MacDonald has, one might say, followed in the footsteps of former PhysX and CUDA VP Manju Henge and ended up in AMD's camp, along with his 14 years of experience in the technology industry.

It seems that one can never be too careful with assumptions on the IT market, because things change constantly, sometime more abruptly and surprisingly than others.

Among some of the more interesting changes are those in the higher levels of the staff of world-class companies, since figureheads and specialists can, as their positions imply, drastically affect a company's marketing prowess.

For instance, when Mark Hurd left HP after being the CEO, he was hired by HP's so-called rival Oracle, this move almost leading to a lawsuit that was instead settled for $13 million.

On the graphics cards market, a certain NVIDIA high-profile member, Manju Henge that is, the former CUDA and PhysX VP, left the Santa Clara Company some time ago.

This was interesting because he ended up working for AMD almost immediately afterwards, AMD being the owner of the now 'defunct' ATI and, thus, NVIDIA's Arch-rival on the GPU market.

Now, KitGuru seems to have broken a similar piece of news, this time related to the business sector of AMD and NVIDIA that yield the most money.

Said market is that of professional graphics cards, classified under the Quadro and Tesla brands in NVIDIA's case.

Apparently, the Quadro and Tesla sales manager Rob MacDonald has somehow left NVIDIA and ended up working for AMD, much like Henge did previously.

No doubt the Sunnyvale, California-based company wants to do all it can to actually promote its own FirePro collection of accelerators, which haven't managed to secure too large a market share yet.

Of course, just how fruitful this move proves to AMD is something that remains to be seen over the next months and/or years.