{"id":34641,"date":"2022-01-07T15:03:54","date_gmt":"2022-01-07T20:03:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=34641"},"modified":"2022-01-13T16:55:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-13T21:55:30","slug":"key-m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-for-intel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2022\/01\/07\/key-m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-for-intel\/","title":{"rendered":"Key M1 Mac Engineer Departs Apple for Intel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/06\/m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-intel\/\">Juli Clover<\/a> (<a href=\"https:\/\/news.ycombinator.com\/item?id=29839337\">Hacker News<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/06\/m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-intel\/\"><p>Apple&rsquo;s former Director of Mac System Architecture Jeff Wilcox this week announced that he has left Apple to take on a new role at Intel. As noted on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/jeffwilcox\/\">LinkedIn<\/a> (via <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomshardware.com\/news\/intel-poaches-apple-engineer-responsible-for-arm-transition-and-m1-chips\">Tom&rsquo;s Hardware<\/a>), Wilcox was part of Apple&rsquo;s M1 team and he had a key role in the transition from Intel chips to Apple silicon.<\/p><p>Wilcox&rsquo;s profile says that he &ldquo;led the transition&rdquo; for all Macs to Apple silicon, and prior to that, he developed the SoC and system architecture for the T2 coprocessor used in Intel Macs.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n<p>Previously:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/03\/18\/intels-anti-mac-ads\/\">Intel&rsquo;s Anti-Mac Ads<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2021\/02\/08\/intels-m1-benchmarks\/\">Intel&rsquo;s M1 Benchmarks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2019\/12\/10\/apple-suing-former-a-series-chip-lead\/\">Apple Suing Former A-series Chip Lead<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p id=\"key-m1-mac-engineer-departs-apple-for-intel-update-2022-01-13\">Update (2022-01-13): <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/12\/microsoft-hires-apple-chip-engineer\/\">Juli Clover<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"https:\/\/www.macrumors.com\/2022\/01\/12\/microsoft-hires-apple-chip-engineer\/\">\n<p>Microsoft has hired Mike Filippo, a semiconductor designer who formerly worked at Apple as a chip architect, reports <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2022-01-12\/microsoft-recruits-key-apple-engineer-to-work-on-custom-chips\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em>. Microsoft is aiming to further expand on chip designs for the servers that power its cloud computing services, and at Microsoft, Filippo will be working on processors for Azure servers.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Juli Clover (Hacker News): Apple&rsquo;s former Director of Mac System Architecture Jeff Wilcox this week announced that he has left Apple to take on a new role at Intel. As noted on LinkedIn (via Tom&rsquo;s Hardware), Wilcox was part of Apple&rsquo;s M1 team and he had a key role in the transition from Intel chips [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"2022-01-07T20:03:57Z","apple_news_api_id":"167d5e49-911a-4420-88d8-4b5092709fc2","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2022-01-13T21:55:33Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AFn1eSZEaRCCI2EtQknCfwg","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[38,2014,261,37,260],"class_list":["post-34641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology","tag-apple","tag-apple-m1","tag-intel","tag-microsoft","tag-processors"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34641"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34699,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34641\/revisions\/34699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}