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Microsoft Hires Former Apple Chip Architect
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Apple dumps Microsoft......Microsoft buys key Apple processor engineers and designers......
Apple has one more card to play to retain key engineers and designers. Give them stocks and make them billionaires. But then you can't have billionaire engineers and CEO. Tim Cook would need to be the trillionaire CEO.
Apple has one more card to play to retain key engineers and designers. Give them stocks and make them billionaires. But then you can't have billionaire engineers and CEO. Tim Cook would need to be the trillionaire CEO.
These people are always changing jobs as there is always bigger money dangling. Always ?
Awesome! steal another guy away from APPLE.
Windows 11 Is getting AWSOME! Every week they are fixing things and adding features.
Monterey is a stagnant and buggy mess.
Windows 11 Is getting AWSOME! Every week they are fixing things and adding features.
Monterey is a stagnant and buggy mess.
If he is going to be designing server-level chips to replace the Intel Xeons and AMD EPYCs used with Microsoft Azure datacenters, he might not have been deeply involved in the Apple Silicon models beyond maybe those planned for the Mac Pro (like Jade2C and Jade4C).
Same with the other fellow who went back to Intel - his role was said to be mostly with the Intel to Apple Silicon transition and therefore might not have been part of the "critical path" of actual Apple Silicon design.
This guy worked at both Intel and AMD... then spent a decade at Arm... then a few years at Apple... and now onto Microsoft.
Some of these guys really get around!
Some of these guys really get around!
It would help readers if you stated this, then?
Maybe those folks have expertise in certain areas of design that makes them valuable for a certain portion of a chip's development cycle and then once that is done, they move on. So they are effectively "hired guns" to solve specific issues.
It isn’t good to be complacent and work for a single company for too long at a time. You want to be able to take any good opportunity that presents itself.
And yet if it really is "just about the money", nobody can really touch Apple - they literally have hundreds of billions in cash available to them.
So if these people were truly critical to the success of Apple Silicon, Apple could easily out-bid anyone else via a cash (re-)signing bonus.
It says formerly worked at Apple. Was he even a current employee or just someone who worked at Apple once upon a time?
Filippio is world class talent and there's a only a handful of silicon designers of his caliber. These guys are not easy to replace.
Guys like Filippio don't have to look for work. It comes looking for them. They can literally write their own ticket.This guy worked at both Intel and AMD... then spent a decade at Arm... then a few years at Apple... and now onto Microsoft.
Some of these guys really get around!
It would help readers if you also weren't condescending.
Yes, that's why Jony Ive was only around at Apple for a few years.
Big Deal!
Chip Designers go from Fritos® to Wise® monthly as well!
Chip Designers go from Fritos® to Wise® monthly as well!
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When do we expect to see Microsoft’s server chip? Intel is really screwed if even their former partner in crime is abandoning them. Microsoft is #2 in cloud, and Amazon is #1 and all in on custom silicon already. I wonder if Apple will make a server chip, even if it’s only for their internal data centers.
…..Says one person with an unvalidated opinion on a random Internet discussion forum about one of the most successful tech companies in the world. Yeah…Ok.
I would say it is about the money. If Apple starts a bidding war to keep a person then everyone else around that person at Apple would be looking for a raise. If the person just leaves...for Microsoft in this case...then remaining people aren't certain why the person left.
"A revolving door for engineers" that are not happy, challenged, and/or appreciated. I guarantee that happy engineers don't just leave for no reason.
Apple is designing its own M1 "silicon" processors without Intel. Intel is associated with Windows operating system. Intel phoned Microsoft and said you help us bleed Apple of talent required to design their own stuff.
If you're not moving jobs every 3-5yrs in the tech industry you're looked at as nuts with no drive. Staying at a company because you enjoy it is rarely a thing in tech anymore unless yours an upper level executive and have already been at that company for a long time.This guy worked at both Intel and AMD... then spent a decade at Arm... then a few years at Apple... and now onto Microsoft.
Some of these guys really get around!
If it wasn’t for Microsoft, there would be no Apple. They bailed them out decades ago from bankruptcy.