Engineering director 'Jeff Wilcox' who led the migration of Mac M1 chip at Apple transferred to Intel

Apple has long adopted Intel chips in Mac, but announced plans to move to its own SoC like the iPhone at WWDC 2020 held in June 2020. After that, Apple's first ' M1 ' chip, which is Apple's original silicon for Mac, was announced, and the chip was praised by overseas media as 'computing revolution' and 'unbelievable feat'. It has been revealed that Jeff Wilcox, who led the development of such an M1 chip, was pulled out by Intel and left Apple.

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It was revealed that Jeff Wilcox, Apple's director of system architecture for Mac, has retired from the company and has a new job at Intel. Wilcox mentions his new position on LinkedIn , a business social network, and is pleased to announce that he has been awarded the position of Intel's Client SoC Architecture, CTO of the Design Engineering Group, and Intel Fellow. Nothing is more exciting than being able to go back and work with a great team to help. '

Mr. Wilcox is a person who has built up a career in the semiconductor industry for a long time. After working for NVIDIA for a year and a half, he began his career as a power management architect for Atom processors at Intel from 2010 to 2013 before moving to Apple. At Apple, he spent eight years as Director of Mac Systems Architecture, leading the development of Apple's first Apple Silicon, the M1 chip. 'I feel like my new position at Intel is the same as when I was at Apple,' said Tom's Hardware, who first reported Wilcox's move to Intel.

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Regarding Intel's withdrawal of Wilcox, Tom's Hardware said, 'This withdrawal is just one of the headhunting the company has done since Intel welcomed Patrick Gelsinger as the new CEO. Below, Intel is pulling talent from competitors such as AMD, NVIDIA and Apple, with a particular focus on securing talent for launching high-performance graphics architectures, and Intel is a new talent. We are investing 2.4 billion dollars (about 280 billion yen) to secure it and strengthening the compensation system. '

Apple-related media 9to5Mac said, 'Apple has lost a few engineers from the silicon team in the last two years. Most notably, three engineers who left Apple launched a chip company called Nuvia and finally. the acquisition to Qualcomm now .Apple is that it has been, reported that this Nuvia has been involved in a legal battle with one of the engineers who launched the ',' Mr. Wilcox withdrawal is given to the development of Apple Silicon impact Is unknown. '

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