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Apple to Develop Future Mac Chips in Israel
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Probably worth noting that Johny Srouji, Senior Vice President of Hardware Technologies, is himself an Israeli.
From Apple’s executives page:
From Apple’s executives page:
Johny has built one of the world’s strongest and most innovative teams of silicon and technology engineers, overseeing breakthrough custom silicon and hardware technologies including batteries, application processors, storage controllers, sensors silicon, display silicon and other chipsets across Apple’s entire product line.
One of Intel's primary chip dev centers is in Israel, if you're worried about this now you should know that this would have been a concern before. Chip designs are always going to be reviewed by US based teams before production though, it's not something I'm any more concerned about than chip fab in Taiwan/China/India/Vietnam. This stuff is global, and core chip makers and designers do their due diligence on this, it's a big deal if something like that, from anywhere, slips through.
MR, can you guys clarify that this is just them opening up a NEW office? Chip R&D for Apple has been going on there for the better part of a decade now.
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What Is Apple Looking for in Israel? Chip Design
Apple's CEO Tim Cook visited the company's new R&D center north of Tel Aviv. Together with its other center in Haifa, in northern Israel, Apple's Israeli R&D operations are the company's second largest research and development hub outside of the US. Their focus: chip design.
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Apple's growing presence in Israel geared to chip design, suggests WSJ - 9to5Mac
The WSJ is suggesting that Apple’s growing presence in Israel is focused on expanding the company’s chip design capabilities, reporting that...
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I agree - this is home base for one of the biggest intelligence agencies in the world and there is a long history of that group spying on America and its citizens… along with conducting industral espionage, and conducting false flag operations. The iPhone hacking from that shady group based there is another example... Where they targeted executives, leaders of countries, journalists, and activists for their spyware campaign… and while Apple has come out and publicly condemed that spyware and company, It wasn’t until after it was being widely spread that the iPhone security had been compromised by that group. Being the cynic that i am, I tend to believe this arrangement is more strategic in an alliance way than a technical talent and labor pool arrangement. Apple spends big $ in PR trying to maintain the narrative that they are independent and and advocate for peoples personal freedoms… yet there is a huge contradiction in those moral values with this arrangement. The more I learn about Apple, the less i trust them. Although, the alternatives aren’t any better… particularly with Microsoft… and google, the big vacuum cleaner in the sky…. Its to the point now that if you want to protect yourself from invasion of privacy you have to completely forgo having any involvement with technology…. and whats worse, is these purveyors of your security are making money hand over fist, much of it coming from the taxpayer via the law enforcement agencies around this country and or Gov’t from around the world…
This is why Apple had been moving the Mac closer to the iOS model. Even the Mac App Store can be set to behave like iOS and only trust those apps. It’s the unsigned apps that are far more difficult to protect against.A lot of good that will do when macOS is like swiss cheese according to Craig Federighi 🤣
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It's a small country, hard to find a big enough location
That's cool and all but when are we going to get an official Apple store here now !?
I feel like every tech company is/has opening a chip center in Israel. Well, it’s a great place! I’m actually doing some basic research in semiconductor related stuff here right now.
Links? It's always interesting to see the processes that makes the end product.
An incredibly ignorant statement.
This is in part, because of Israel's archaic import rules. IINM, former Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's son is part of a group that bought the rights to be the exclusive importer of Apple products to Israel. Because this deal exists, Apple itself isn't allowed to open up an Apple Store in the country. At one point in the last decade, there was talk of opening an Apple Store in the Airport, which wouldn't violate the rules, but I'm not sure what happened.
As for the haters - Apple has long had a presence in Israel. They bought a NAND memory company in the early 2010s and built their presence from their, they have a building with a giant apple logo in the middle of Tel-Aviv, and employ about 800 people between Tel-Aviv and Haifa.
What many of you may not know, is that Apple recently (in the last 4-5 years) opened up an R&D center in Rawabi - in the Palestinian controlled part of the West Bank. It currently employs about 60 people, and had a hand in M1 design. This was spearheaded by Johnny Srouji (a Palestinian with Israeli Citizenship - aka an "Israeli Arab") - and in a recent interview, he said he plans on growing it - https://en.globes.co.il/en/article-apple-to-expand-palestinian-rd-center-1001416567
I imagine a Jerusalem facility will have mixed Israeli/Palestinian staff.
Yup! This is what I came to say haha but you beat me to it.
Johny Srouji being Israeli and a nice person apparently. I have two friends who work in the chip team with Design Verification and QA and they’ve both said he’s a really smart guy but humble.
And yet another absurd statement.It's a small country, hard to find a big enough location
lots of design talent already in Israel for decades, only a logical step
Excellent. They join Google, Microsoft, NVidia and others, all of whom have invested significantly in the last few years.
Israelis under your bed and in your closet too.
Israel is one of the best places in the world for technology, we should all be thankful for them for making apple silicon
That is interesting. I was aware that he’s ethnically Palestinian, but I’ve never seen him comment publicly on anything political. I wonder if his position gives him an interest in supporting growth opportunities that are cross-community? Has the potential to be a lot more positive than much of the stuff that goes on there.
Seriously, you don’t know why? If what you’re meaning is just getting lost in the text translation… then okay… but if you are serious then that question you are asking in of itself raises more questions and begs to know what it may be that you have missed in the last 2-3 decades?
So what do they do with that overpriced corp office? Have meetings about diversity and retail store numbers all day? Nothing is done here anymore.
I look forward to enjoy his Apple silicon segments during the Keynotes presentations.