Microsoft poached senior Apple chip designers, self-developed chips will become the mainstream?

According to Bloomberg, Microsoft has hired Mike Filippo, who used to work as a chip designer at Apple, to develop processors for Azure servers, mainly for cloud computing services and Surface products.

Philip joined Apple in 2019 as a senior engineer on Apple's chip team. Previously, he spent 10 years at Arm in semiconductor design, where he developed some of the underlying technologies for use in mobile phones and other devices. Philip has been responsible for the development of several Arm chips, including the Cortex-A76, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A57, and the upcoming 7nm+ and 5nm core processes. Prior to working at Arm, Philip worked at AMD and Intel.

Bloomberg analysis said that this move shows that Microsoft is accelerating its self-developed chip process to provide impetus for Azure cloud computing services. Azure cloud computing services and Surface PCs are highly dependent on Intel and AMD chips, and The addition of Ferripo means that Microsoft will accelerate the development of its own server processors. In addition, this shift could also weaken Microsoft's long-term processor partners Intel and AMD.

Before Microsoft, tech giants such as Apple, Google, and Amazon have announced the layout of chip design. Apple has been losing some of its chip staff in recent weeks, and Jeff Wilcox, former director of Mac system architecture, left Apple last December to switch to Intel, where he will be in charge of Intel's chip products.