> "Wilcox spent eight years working at Apple, and as of this week, he is the Design Engineering Group CTO at Intel. Wilcox says that he will be responsible for the architecture of all SoCs for all Intel client segments. Prior to working for Apple, Wilcox was at Intel where he served as a principal engineer on PC chipsets, and prior to that, he worked at Magnum Semiconductor and Nvidia."
This seems like a meaningful (re-)hire for Intel. They're obviously weak in SoCs. The Atom was an expensive flop, AFAICT.
Though it seems somewhat odd that a "key M1 engineer" would be from Intel rather than what's considered major Apple purchases in the design space (PA Semi and Intrisity, possibly Passif and the parts of Dialog purchased as well).
Apple was Intel's flagship customer for laptop PC chips. It doesn't seem surprising that Apple would hire someone from Intel's PC chipset design to lead their own effort to replace it.
Apple was Intel's flagship customer for laptop PC chips. It doesn't seem surprising that Apple would hire someone from Intel's PC chipset design to lead their own effort to replace it.
You've magnificently missed the point of my comment.
And then, of course, for most of the relationship Apple was quite unhappy with what Intel provided, ultimately deciding to take the matter into their own hands.
I think your last point is true, but not 100%. Apple for sure was unhappy with Intel. But I also think bringing the computer more in line with their line up of phones and iPads also plays a role that it divorced from Intel. Apple, since the first iPhone, has been on a slow march to convergence. Everything on Arm is a major step towards convergence.
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> "Wilcox spent eight years working at Apple, and as of this week, he is the Design Engineering Group CTO at Intel. Wilcox says that he will be responsible for the architecture of all SoCs for all Intel client segments. Prior to working for Apple, Wilcox was at Intel where he served as a principal engineer on PC chipsets, and prior to that, he worked at Magnum Semiconductor and Nvidia."
This seems like a meaningful (re-)hire for Intel. They're obviously weak in SoCs. The Atom was an expensive flop, AFAICT.
Though it seems somewhat odd that a "key M1 engineer" would be from Intel rather than what's considered major Apple purchases in the design space (PA Semi and Intrisity, possibly Passif and the parts of Dialog purchased as well).
Apple was Intel's flagship customer for laptop PC chips. It doesn't seem surprising that Apple would hire someone from Intel's PC chipset design to lead their own effort to replace it.
You've magnificently missed the point of my comment.
And then, of course, for most of the relationship Apple was quite unhappy with what Intel provided, ultimately deciding to take the matter into their own hands.
I think your last point is true, but not 100%. Apple for sure was unhappy with Intel. But I also think bringing the computer more in line with their line up of phones and iPads also plays a role that it divorced from Intel. Apple, since the first iPhone, has been on a slow march to convergence. Everything on Arm is a major step towards convergence.