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Key iOS Chip Architect Gerard Williams III Departs Apple
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People just don’t understand business, are just hating, and probably both. Unless Tim Cook or Luca Maestri leave, it’s basically a non story.
Intel’s probably buying each of’em their own island to keep ARM-based desktop CPUs from becoming a reality.
People whined when Jim Keller left, too. It was fine.
Legit I'd to the same. Be the "ideas man": give your piece of mind/advice, cool meetings, chill, life is good.
A lot of you also need to understand...corporate is a freaking grind, no matter how high you are on the food chain. It’s actually worse the higher you go. If this dude has made a ton of money, he might just want to live his life.
Not everything is the end of Apple.
Apple is the most successful business on earth.
Not everything is the end of Apple.
Apple is the most successful business on earth.
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He was lazy. Not his fault. He inherited it from his parents...who, didn’t even take the time to give him his own name. 
now he is not even willing to talk about
certain numbers, like iphone numbers as much as he likes talking about numbers
Lol, I was honestly more concerned about Bruce Sewell leaving than this...
The chances of this one employee’s departure from Apple somehow slowing their work on custom chips are nil.
They are clearly accelerating in that space (what with rumors of them starting to design their own baseband chips & them releasing the brand new “h-series”, like a week ago!)
I’m pretty sure that team has some bright & talented.
They also probably knew he was leaving long before we did and have made arrangements. Change isn’t always bad either.
That's just silly! (in my opinion) Maybe this is the rule in Silicon Valley but we'd be in trouble if we did that everywhere.
I worked at the same hospital for 30 of my 37 working years. In that time I helped build a team of technicians (we maintained and repaired the medical equipment) from two people to a team of 6 that became second to none in NYC. There's such a thing as building an organization long term.
Likely a lower stress job or lifestyle after vesting all their stock options.
Or to found a startup to try the lottery for that first Billion.
Of course you do.
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Just as you do.
There are 7B people in the world and talent is readily available (though often not given opportunity). These guys may have had an impact at some point, at their prime, but I can guarantee you they probably have little to no impact on actual chip design today. It's good to rotate out the senior guys so that the young guns have motivation to keep innovating and be rewarded with promotions. Also, Apples arch and design is top notch, I don't expect that to change because of this.
Looks like you’re out of gas needing to resort to juvenile snark.
I wonder what the main motivation of that decision is.
Leaving for the money, does the apple roadmap not fit with his point of view, personal motivation, it’s all guessing.
That his career coincides with apples successful A-series can be sensational journalism or can be real, probably something in between.
Leaving for the money, does the apple roadmap not fit with his point of view, personal motivation, it’s all guessing.
That his career coincides with apples successful A-series can be sensational journalism or can be real, probably something in between.
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Thank you and exactly. Their CPU design has been ESSENTIAL in maintaining a credible lead over competitors. Sure the App Ecosystem is equally if not even more important but honestly so many promises not delivered. I think the guy just wanted to leave the company on a positive note. And he likely will cash out on the stock.
I truly believe Apple May see a serious decline in market value this year. Just a feeling.
All regular employees “cash out the stock” the day they receive it, via same day sales. For tax and risk reasons.
come on man, i know you know something about this but you really think apple is not using synthesis on the control logic in these designs? maybe for certain parts of the datapath apple are doing all the logic and layout by hand but there's just no way you'd design the whole thing that way.
if what you mean is that samsung is just buying encrypted verilog from ARM and turning the crank to get an ARM CPU, OK, yes. performance is going to suffer there.