Microsoft hires former AMD / Intel / Arm / Apple veteran CPU designers

It turns out that Microsoft has pulled chip designer Mike Filippo from Apple as part of an effort to design its own chip.

Microsoft hires Apple chip designer to boost its processor plans --SiliconANGLE
https://siliconangle.com/2022/01/12/microsoft-hires-apple-chip-designer-boost-chip-making-plans/

Filippo's transfer to Microsoft was revealed in his LinkedIn profile. Filippo gained a career as an AMD chip designer for 10 years from 1994, after which he was in charge of CPU and system design at Intel from 2004 to 2009. Since 2009, he has a history of transferring to Apple in 2019 after developing ' Cortex-A57 ', ' Cortex-A72 ', ' Cortex-A76 ' etc. with Arm.

Apple hires a former ARM CPU designer and designs Cortex-A76 etc. as lead architect-GIGAZINE

by Matheus Cenali

Apple has already announced in November 2021 the independently developed SoC 'M1 ' as a chip using the Arm architecture. It was reported in December 2020 that Microsoft is also developing its own chip designed with the Arm architecture.

Is Microsoft developing its own Arm processor for servers or Surfaces?-GIGAZINE

In January 2022, it is reported that Jeff Wilcox, the engineering director who led the migration of Mac's M1 chip , transferred from Apple to Intel.