Apple loses second key chip engineer, this time to Microsoft
Microsoft has hired a key semiconductor designer away from Apple in an effort to expand its own efforts developing server chips, marking the second departure from Apple's chip team in recent weeks.
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Mike Filippo, who joined Apple in 2019, will reportedly work on processors in Microsoft's Azure group, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
The poaching hints that Microsoft could be accelerating efforts to build first-party server chips for its cloud computing services. The company's primary rivals, Amazon and Alphabet, are making similar moves.
Before joining Apple in 2019, Filippo served as a top chip architect at Arm for around 10 years. Prior to that, he worked at Intel. During his tenure at Arm, he was credited with advancing the architecture's underlying technologies for mobile and other platforms, Bloomberg points out.
As far as Apple is concerned, Filippo's departure marks the second high-profile chip engineer hired away by another company. Earlier in January, Intel poached lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox.
A report from late December 2021 indicated that Apple was taking steps to prevent poaching, including offering top engineering talent stock bonuses worth up to $180,000.
Technology giants are increasingly looking to develop first-party chips as global supply constraints and semiconductor shortages loom overage the industry.
Apple is further along in its first-party chip strategy than other companies. Back in October, it announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max, two Apple Silicon chips that are still leading the pack as far as performance as power efficiency.
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Microsoft sign
Mike Filippo, who joined Apple in 2019, will reportedly work on processors in Microsoft's Azure group, Bloomberg reported Wednesday.
The poaching hints that Microsoft could be accelerating efforts to build first-party server chips for its cloud computing services. The company's primary rivals, Amazon and Alphabet, are making similar moves.
Before joining Apple in 2019, Filippo served as a top chip architect at Arm for around 10 years. Prior to that, he worked at Intel. During his tenure at Arm, he was credited with advancing the architecture's underlying technologies for mobile and other platforms, Bloomberg points out.
As far as Apple is concerned, Filippo's departure marks the second high-profile chip engineer hired away by another company. Earlier in January, Intel poached lead Apple Silicon designer Jeff Wilcox.
A report from late December 2021 indicated that Apple was taking steps to prevent poaching, including offering top engineering talent stock bonuses worth up to $180,000.
Technology giants are increasingly looking to develop first-party chips as global supply constraints and semiconductor shortages loom overage the industry.
Apple is further along in its first-party chip strategy than other companies. Back in October, it announced the M1 Pro and M1 Max, two Apple Silicon chips that are still leading the pack as far as performance as power efficiency.
Read on AppleInsider
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Fucked framing of the story, can you *try* and be more negative please, we haven't had enough trolls join in the past few days.
I didn't read anything negative about this story. It's just another story. An info piece. Where's the problem?
Engineers and scientists move around just like most employees do. Apple picks up talent from other companies just as other companies pick up talent from Apple.
Processor design though, definitely isn't a one man show (or two man! ) and new talent is rising all the time.
As for 'WOW', well there's plenty of that outside of Apple, too.
There are a million reasons why a person joins or leaves any company... unless publicly stated, it's silly to draw conclusions...
Devolving to a "not a true A Player" because a person doesn't conform to made up rules is dogmatic nonsense.