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Jeff Wilcox, Apple's director of Mac system architecture, has moved to Intel to lead Intel's SoC architecture design efforts.
Jeff Wilcox spent eight years at Apple, building the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max chips, and was instrumental in apple's transition from Intel chips to Apple Silicon.
Earlier, Jeff Wilcox was an Intel employee, working as a Lead architect for PC chipsets for three years.
Say goodbye to Apple and return to Intel
Jeff Wilcox said goodbye to Apple two weeks ago in a post on the LinkedIn homepage:
After an amazing eight years, I decided to leave Apple for another opportunity.
These eight years of work experience have been remarkable, and I am extremely proud that my team and I have finally achieved results such as the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max.
I will miss all my Apple colleagues and friends, but I'm also looking forward to my next trip in early 2022.
A day ago, he officially announced that he would join Intel as Intel Fellow, CTO of the Design Engineering Group, and responsible for Intel's SoC architecture.
Wilcox's Mac product line transition program, which Wilcox is primarily responsible for at Apple, is expected to be completed in June 2022 and is about to come to an end.
For now, Wilcox's successor has not been announced.
On Intel's side, CEO Pat Gelsinger has invested $2.4 billion in compensation structures since taking office, starting to "dig the wall" and recruiting industry experts from rival companies such as Apple, AMD and NVIDIA.
Wilcox, who has 25 years of experience in the chip design industry, is one of them.
Apple's chip team has been repeatedly lost?
On the other hand, the news of the brain drain of Apple's chip team is not uncommon.
Back in 2019, Apple's most important former chip designer, Gerard Williams III, and two former semiconductor executives left Apple to found chip company Nuvia.
As you know, the company was acquired by Qualcomm for $1.4 billion, along with the talent resources of Nuvia's three co-founders and more than 100 Apple engineers.
Rivos, a CPU startup focused on high-performance RISC-V cores, was founded in June this year, and there are also many Apple engineers.
Of course, Apple has recently begun to issue huge bonuses to prevent talents from defecting to his home, giving employees dividends and allotments, ranging from $50,000 to $180,000.
"All precautions", or "painfully lost" the general Wilcox.
Intel is also currently developing new chips, claiming to be comparable to Apple's M1, and it is not known whether Wilcox can become a key leader in the competition.