Those are illegal in California.
Got a tip for us?
Let us know
Become a MacRumors Supporter for $50/year with no ads, ability to filter front page stories, and private forums.
Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel
- Thread starter MacRumors
- Start date
- Sort by reaction score
Good for him... but is this news? People leave jobs all the time and it sounds like our knowledge of this guy is limited to what's on his LinkedIn.
Eh, he left Intel and went to Apple and, from what we know (because he hasn’t been in legal trouble) was able to work at Apple without divulging Intel’s secrets, I’d say the chance is pretty good that he’ll be able to work at Intel again without divulging Apple’s secrets
It is certainly Apple news, which this site reports.
Or maybe he did divulge Intel's secrets, and now he will divulge Apple's secrets. Only that he did it in a way that no one can be held legally liable. In a way, he IS Intel's secrets, and he IS Apple's secrets. He just needs to be there.Eh, he left Intel and went to Apple and, from what we know (because he hasn’t been in legal trouble) was able to work at Apple without divulging Intel’s secrets, I’d say the chance is pretty good that he’ll be able to work at Intel again without divulging Apple’s secrets
If only they got universal control working earlier, he could have dragged the codes and schematics over to his iPad and walked out. Without that, it was a chore. All that copy and paste took so long or he would have left sooner.
Why do you think he'll be focused on Arm/RISC-V? He may be, but given Meteor Lake (due next year) appears to be a tiled version of the M1 (with unified memory coming in a later generation?), I could see him being responsible for x86 SOCs (or both).
Also, having a foundry business that does x86 + Xe + Arm + RISC-V here in the states (rather than bordering China) is a big advantage for Intel that nobody else can replicate.
Intel's culture has started to change already, which is likely why he's going to Intel. A lot of the leadership over at Intel has changed, and I'd like to think they've been moving in a good direction since Pat took over.
No big deal, people change roles all the time. Solid promotion and more cash, most people would do it.
The number of pages in the NDA they made him sign during the exit interview...
Do you think it can be expressed as a 32 bit number?
Do you think it can be expressed as a 32 bit number?
And someone else will jump ship to Apple. And someone else will leave Apple, and so on, and so on . . . .
Think they hired an Apple System Architect to handle orders for their foundry business? Man is he going to be unhappy when he realizes she should have asked more about the role they had in mind for him…
True, kind of, very different market than today though…
I think that he’ll be focussed on Arm because when Intel uses the phrase SoC internally they are referring to Arm, and they use the term to make a distinction with x86.
A better question is how important he and all the other engineers he knows and may recruit for Intel are for Apple.
Hmm. Sounds old-fashioned. I hope it's just a terminology issue rather than their mindset.
X86 is the future?
It sounds like Qualcomm might be gaining more of Intel's customers.
Windows 11 for Arm is going on full steam ahead, plus Apple and Microsoft still have a technology sharing agreement. I would imagine Microsoft has their version of Rosetta 2 being worked on in their software department. Not to mention, they're actively pursuing their own Arm powered chip on top of their existing agreement with Qualcomm for the Snapdragon in the Surface X.
Pretty sure the future is going to be Arm-powered SOCs, whether provided by the PC manufacture or them buying from Qualcomm, NVIDIA, AMD or whomever is selling chip designs. Arm and RISCV are the future. Not X86.
Making Intel chips more of a SOC, with 10nm and smaller dies and leaving x86, could help them out big time. This is his expertise.
There is nothing wrong x86 per say, it being CISC vs ARM RISC.
Alot of the gains of M1 come from two things, TSMC's 5nm process (power/heat) and having so much on the die "SOC" which cuts down having to go through other chip sets to access RAM/GPU.
They are banking on RibbonFET and apparently Qualcom is their first customer for something.