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Microsoft poaches key Apple semiconductor engineer as it ramps up in-house chip design

January 12, 2022

Via: 9to5Mac
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Microsoft has poached a veteran chip designer from Apple, according to a new report from Bloomberg. The report explains that Apple chip architect Mike Filippo has departed Apple to join Microsoft, signaling that the company is looking to “expand its own server-chips efforts.”

Filippo joined Apple in 2019 after having spent a decade as a top semiconductor designer at Arm. Prior to that, he spent time at both Intel and AMD. Bloomberg says that he is “credited with advancing the capabilities of Arm’s underlying technologies in phones and other devices.”

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