Intel has been designing CPUs there going back at least as far as Nehalam, and probably longer than that.
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Apple to Develop Future Mac Chips in Israel
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Best place is Ireland that is where Apple has safely been making Macs since the time of the druids and wizards.
Why do so many companies in the United States go to such an extreme to avoid hiring American workers?
REMINDER: Apple’s headquarters in the United States but NONE of their hardware is produced there.
REMINDER: Apple’s headquarters in the United States but NONE of their hardware is produced there.
Help me to understand what is China has to do with this? Why “China bad” is popping up everywhere?
In chip design, it’s a seller‘s market. There aren’t enough engineers to go around. Going where the engineers are makes loads of sense, and that’s why so many of the big tech companies have a stake in there.
If you want anyone to read, try paragraphs and shorten it.
I agree. It’s always the segment that isn’t drowning in marshmallow fluff. Too bad they make him take the mandatory Apple-video super-wide stance. it’s supposed to look assertive, I suppose, but it comes across with just a hint of lack of bladder control.
In addition to just general time in the country I went to a couple tech conferences in Israel pre-COV19, always impressive stuff.
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They do plenty of software dev and chip design in the US too, but they are a global company at the end of the day, and to be competitive they need to be where talent is. Israel has a massive tech industry and some of the best chip designers in the world, pretty much every chip designer or fab either has dev centers in Israel or recruits heavily from the country's top unis like technion (Israel's MIT basically) - most both.
seriously, I've been involved in hiring conversations in this end of things, the number of folks who are actually deep into the arena of high end CPU/GPU/etc designs and such is almost surprisingly small, it's a very very difficult field to recruit in and Israel has a large concentration of those engineers.
did you think all their chip design was in Cali before? Hell, they've been in Israel for years, this is an expansion, and a lot of chip design work is done in collab with TSMC in Taiwan and elsewhere, etc. That's true of Intel too, though obvs different partners, and Motorola and IBM before that. The CPUs in your macs, let alone the rest of the silicon components, were *never* exclusively US designed.
Because they have competition. They manufacture in China because that’s where the cheapest workers are and they design in Israel because that’s where the smart people are.
But that's more for production, not development, isn't it?
All the ARM stuff is based on a British design anyway. So there goes the US exclusivity already.
Yet we haven’t got an Apple Store either — despite Apple’s presence (including its one and only Apple-owned manufacturing facility) here since 1980!
Through Israeli development, Apple manages and streamlines the data storage technology in a range of devices: Wireless communication components for the Apple Watch, as well as the integrated circuits that were developed in Israel, and the jewel in the crown: the Israeli team played a central role in developing the premium version of the company's flagship M1 processor, including the M1 Pro and M1 Max chips designed to support premium Mac computers such as MacBook Pro and MacBook Studio. These chips were built here in Israel while working with other teams worldwide, including at the headquarters in Cupertino
Macbook Studio?
Macbook Studio?
And a very large tech support operation. Apple employs over 6,000 in Ireland at present.
Ah yeah that’s true. IIRC, we used to get Macs shipped from Ireland some time ago (I‘m in Switzerland).
I'm gonna go on a limb and bet that's a mistake, but on the offchance it isnt I wonder what a MacBook studio would look like? Maybe an 18" or 19" version of the MBP in the same vein as the old 17" machines?
To be fair Apple was one third of the founding partners of ARM, but yup, it was always and still is UK based and Acorn was a British company
Oh I wasn’t aware of that! Talk about long term planning
I just knew it was originally Acorn RISC Machines, I remember the Archimedes when it came out (although I had an Atari ST)
So the country that has the most colleges that can educate people to be engineers, is the one that lacks engineers?
NSO can now incorporate it's spyware directly into the hardware. No more need to hassle with getting software installed on target all IOS devices. Brilliant.
Not a wise move on Apple's part. Probably the close to the last place on the planet I would trust.
Not a wise move on Apple's part. Probably the close to the last place on the planet I would trust.