Apple's chip team has been poached heavyweight chip designers to jump ship to Microsoft

[CNMO News] On January 13, according to Sina Technology, Microsoft recently poached a heavyweight engineer from Apple to help the company design server chips.

Mike Ferripo

The engineer, Mike Filippo, has been with Apple for more than two years. Felippo has nearly 25 years of experience in the chip field, was the chief architect of ARM, and can be said to be one of the important figures in the development of Apple's M series chips. Since becoming an AMD CPU chip designer in 1996, he has worked at Intel, ARM and later apple. There is news that Microsoft is developing processors, which are mainly aimed at cloud computing services and Surface products. At present, some of Microsoft's business is highly dependent on Intel and AMD chips. Ferripo's addition means that Microsoft wants to accelerate the development of its own server processors.

In recent years, Apple has made a major breakthrough in chip research and development, in addition to the self-developed A series mobile phone chips, it has also launched an M chip based on the ARM architecture. The M1 Pro and M1 Max chips launched by Apple last year, which are mainly for the PC side, are back and forth with their super energy consumption ratio performance and Intel Core. And the excellent products have also made Apple's chip designers become "fragrant". Not long ago, Jeff Wilcox, Apple's director of Mac system architecture, has moved to Intel and will mainly help Intel develop SoCs in the future. The departure of another important designer this time does not know how it will affect Apple's chip research and development.