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Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel
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There's more speculation in this post than a speculative branch-prediction prefetch in a processor instruction pipeline.
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x86 is NOT the future ... he's gonna develop Arm/V-RISC SOCs for Intel ... even Intel knows that x86 is a dead horse
No but it is extremely unlikely Apple will ever get a large portion of the PC business so this provides good job possibilities elsewhere for this guy.
The guy went from being a Director to a CTO - that's a massive promotion and likely the primary impetus for his move. I don't think it had anything to do with Apple's share price.
Holy smokes!. A smart engineer left one tech company in Silicon Valley and went to another tech company in Silicon Valley!
Shiver me timbers...did I just feel the Earth momentarily tilt a few extra degrees in astonishment? Tsunamis ahead, be careful.
Shiver me timbers...did I just feel the Earth momentarily tilt a few extra degrees in astonishment? Tsunamis ahead, be careful.
Shouldn't it be goes back to Intel? Apple snaged him in 2013 from intel.
I'm sure these people make plenty of money already but in a company that makes this much money and pays some of its people way more than enough, any employee at Apple can get work where they will be paid better if Apple isn't willing to. The price of everything is going up, so should the compensation and rewards they give to their employees. I hope he is making way more than he was at Apple and that he can do more than just add one more useless stat on a product page. Those chips use too much power and run too hot and cost too much. Intel needs to revamp their whole line aimed at consumers.
I'm surprised an engineer from the Apple silicon team doesn't have some sort of non-compete clause in their contract.?
This guy can play both characters in the "I'm a Mac" commercials.
It's not always the case engineers in Silicon Valley move from one company to another. Suggesting Apple didn't pay him enough is nothing more than speculation.
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9to5Mac's Take. I agree with this 100%.
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Apple engineering director responsible for leading M1 transition departs for Intel - 9to5Mac
As Apple continues to transition the Mac to its own Apple Silicon processors, Intel isn’t looking the direction. As first...
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You really should be on team All Of Them. Healthy competition gets us progress. Look how Intel sorta languished while it was far ahead. It took Apple and AMD catching up for them to finally get their asses into gear and commit to improving their architecture.
Having multiple CPU makers out there is great for us customers. We will continue to see amazing things for years to come with a healthy Intel, AMD and Apple/TSMC.
Because, you know... apple have been putting out garbage CPUs for years before he came along and worked on T2...
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Won't happen.
Bolting bits of M1 onto x86 won't fix the core architectural problems.
So what portion of the PC business do you think the Arm/RISC-V SoCs he’s designing for Intel will get?
I’m guessing less than Apple’s share.
Pretty sure there were people saying AAPL had maxed out when it hit $1T market cap in 2018...it has tripled since then. If all my stock had done that, I'd be posting from my own private island.