Apple Hiring Former Texas Instruments Engineers in Israel

MacRumors · Dec 3, 2012, 05:12 PM

Apple is hiring "dozens" of laid off Texas Instruments engineers to beef up its chip-making R&D operations in Israel, according to a report by The Next Web.

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According to sources close to the situation, Apple has been hiring "dozens" of engineers from Texas Instruments after the company begun cutting around 250 jobs from its Ra'anana development center as it looks to lay off around 1,700 employees (about 5 percent of its total workforce) globally.

Many of the engineers working at the development center were focused on the development of TI's OMAP and radio (including WiFi and Bluetooth) chips, which are used a number of new smartphone and tablet devices.

It's possible that the engineers will work with the crew from Anobit that Apple purchased a year ago, perhaps at Apple's new research and development center in Haifa.

The Next Web notes that the new hires will likely be in the Technologies group that Senior Vice President Bob Mansfield is now in charge of after last month's executive reshuffling at the company.

Article Link: Apple Hiring Former Texas Instruments Engineers in Israel

yeah · Dec 3, 2012, 05:13 PM

A7 Quad-Core anyone?

g0odfr1end102 · Dec 3, 2012, 05:14 PM

They're probably planning on making the calculator snappier

gregwyattjr · Dec 3, 2012, 05:16 PM

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

ConCat · Dec 3, 2012, 05:19 PM

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Originally Posted by gregwyattjr

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

Don't hate. Those calculators were the first things I programmed on.

Wrote a (very) small game on one.

MultiMediaWill · Dec 3, 2012, 05:21 PM

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Originally Posted by gregwyattjr

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

They were not awful when they were first made.

nuckinfutz · Dec 3, 2012, 05:34 PM

Apple's assembling quite a pool of talented engineers from a variety of sources.

If we thought the last 5 years was a revelation in technology the next 5 will likely outdo it easily.

Virtualball · Dec 3, 2012, 06:37 PM

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Originally Posted by gregwyattjr

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

TI's calculators are perfectly fine. Sure, they should add more RAM and ROM and lower the price but beyond that, they're perfect. People like to complain about the screen or its lack of wifi for some reason, but at the end of the day, it's meant to be used in a classroom. The low res black and white screen gives it its immense battery life and the lack of wifi is good because students could use it to cheat.

H2SO4 · Dec 4, 2012, 02:11 AM

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Originally Posted by Virtualball

TI's calculators are perfectly fine. Sure, they should add more RAM and ROM and lower the price but beyond that, they're perfect. People like to complain about the screen or its lack of wifi for some reason, but at the end of the day, it's meant to be used in a classroom. The low res black and white screen gives it its immense battery life and the lack of wifi is good because students could use it to cheat.

So apart from its shortcomings it's perfect?

aajeevlin · Dec 3, 2012, 07:01 PM

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Originally Posted by gregwyattjr

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

What are you talking about? They were great. They are calculators. What was it that you think they are so bad? If your answer is lack of wifi, more memory, bigger screen then don't bother to answer, it's a calculator...

benthewraith · Dec 3, 2012, 07:41 PM

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Originally Posted by gregwyattjr

Apple better not be hiring the people who designed those awful graphing calculators I had to use through high school.

The TI-89 was and still is a beast in the field of graphing calculators.

Fresh Pie · Dec 3, 2012, 08:06 PM

Ugh, can't help but think of:

gmanist1000 · Dec 3, 2012, 06:03 PM

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Originally Posted by g0odfr1end102

They're probably planning on making the calculator snappier

About time.

peb123 · Dec 3, 2012, 05:29 PM

TI makes a lot more than just calculators. They invented DLP for example.

I used to love thumbing through the TI catalogs in college.

DrJohnnyN · Dec 3, 2012, 05:31 PM

Texas!

RedCroissant · Dec 4, 2012, 03:02 AM

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Originally Posted by DrJohnnyN

Texas!

Stop it...just stop it.

Mr. Retrofire · Dec 3, 2012, 06:29 PM

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Originally Posted by peb123

TI makes a lot more than just calculators. They invented DLP for example.

I used to love thumbing through the TI catalogs in college.

;-)

SamGabbay · Dec 3, 2012, 06:14 PM

Programmers in Israel are super smart. Very smart of Apple to go there. The first cell phone was made there!

Rocketman · Dec 3, 2012, 06:20 PM

Since this goes under the R&D budget and has preferred tax treatment in all operative countries, this is a low cost move. The two technologies with the highest multiple payback rate are software and chips. Apple is doubling down on both.

Rocketman

davidcohen · Dec 3, 2012, 06:23 PM

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Originally Posted by SamGabbay

Programmers in Israel are super smart. Very smart of Apple to go there. The first cell phone was made there!

The first cell phone made by Martin Cooper in New York / Washington ? where did you get this info that it happened in Israel ?!

iphoneclassic · Dec 3, 2012, 06:29 PM

Good move Apple. Intel brains are also there. They can exchange ideas there in coffee shops and sue each other here.

Bruce Oksol · Dec 3, 2012, 08:18 PM

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Originally Posted by davidcohen

The first cell phone made by Martin Cooper in New York / Washington ? where did you get this info that it happened in Israel ?!

You are correct: "officially" the first cell phones were made in the US, but unofficially, the work was done in Israel (Motorola-Israel) and the first test calls on a "regular" basis were made there. But, yes, "officially" the US was first. The US is generally first in everything.

SamGabbay · Dec 3, 2012, 08:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Bruce Oksol

You are correct: "officially" the first cell phones were made in the US, but unofficially, the work was done in Israel (Motorola-Israel) and the first test calls on a "regular" basis were made there. But, yes, "officially" the US was first. The US is generally first in everything.

Thank you

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Originally Posted by davidcohen

The first cell phone made by Martin Cooper in New York / Washington ? where did you get this info that it happened in Israel ?!

wrkactjob · Dec 4, 2012, 07:00 AM

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Originally Posted by SamGabbay

Programmers in Israel are super smart....

True, take Stuxnet for an example.

SamGabbay · Dec 4, 2012, 08:15 AM

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Originally Posted by wrkactjob

True, take Stuxnet for an example.

"It has been speculated that Israel AND the United States may have been involved"

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