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Apple Chip Expert Leaves Company to Join Samsung
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Mostly, I'm not sure why every engineer leaving Apple is headline news.
That aside-- I'm in favor of anything that might give TSMC a worthy competitor. If he was a circuit designer, I'd consider it a bit of a waste, but it seems he's more on the process side. I like my Apple products to have the best possible engineering, but I also worry about a semiconductor monoculture. It seems the world players are TSMC, Intel and Samsung. We've seen Intel stumble recently. Samsung seems a step or two behind TSMC. That leaves one game in town, and if TSMC trips up then everything stalls while we wait for a breakthrough. In that environment, I'm fine with Samsung poaching who they need to catch up and stay abreast.
That aside-- I'm in favor of anything that might give TSMC a worthy competitor. If he was a circuit designer, I'd consider it a bit of a waste, but it seems he's more on the process side. I like my Apple products to have the best possible engineering, but I also worry about a semiconductor monoculture. It seems the world players are TSMC, Intel and Samsung. We've seen Intel stumble recently. Samsung seems a step or two behind TSMC. That leaves one game in town, and if TSMC trips up then everything stalls while we wait for a breakthrough. In that environment, I'm fine with Samsung poaching who they need to catch up and stay abreast.
He's a packaging engineer, not a cafeteria worker. He's busy designing better cellophane and making sure the Arm chips don't settle during shipment.
Yes, that too. It's hard to get an increase without making a move sometimes.
I don't know, you'd need to check with that guy here who thinks you can't be called a chip expert if you're a manager. Even though the chip expert in question here, just became a manager at Samsung. Guess he no longer is a chip expert.
Pretty much.Without wishing to disparage this person, I can find no patents to his name, suggesting that he's an exec, not an engineer. And while execs have their uses, there's no obvious reason why he should be indispensable.
That's not what "packaging" means in this context. The package is the container that holds the die. It impacts cooling and device longevity, among other things.
Very sad indeed. You’d think with Google at our fingertips, folks would be more knowledgeable but I guess not. One thing I will also say about Samsung, they make good TVs.
I'll choose to read this as a commentary on my humor rather than my intelligence...
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Seems like a promotion to a more overview position and not technical work.
Eh, my 2004 Samsung DLP TV model was the subject of a class action lawsuit due to mirrors using insufficient strength glue, and falling so the top portion of the screen no longer had an image.
Many of Their 2016+ TVs are good bro. Obviously if you don’t like them you can go with LG, Sony or whoever else. But even Sony uses Samsung Displays in some of its newer TVs.
I admit, I had to scratch my head when you mentioned cellophane 😂. Everyone knows Apple package there chips in recycled paper.
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Nationalism? Samsung makes up about 20% of South Korea’s GDP. That form of obligation goes a long way against corporate espionage.
So when you said “don't let the inventor of…” you actually meant a long list of inventors.
Yeah I have an LG CX OLED as it pairs perfectly with my PS5 and can do 120Hz refresh rates thanks to HDMI 2.1 compatibility.
