Apple Silicon leader and T2 security processor developer Jeff Wilcox has left Apple to rejoin Intel and oversee architecture for all Intel System-on-a-Chip (SoC) designs, AppleInsider reports.
William Gallagher for AppleInsider:
As Apple heads to the end of its self-imposed two-year transition from Intel to its own Apple Silicon, the company has lost the leader of its M1 development team. Jeff Wilcox originally joined Apple from Intel in 2013, and is now returning to that company as it works on introducing new processors.
“After an amazing eight years I have decided to leave Apple and pursue another opportunity,” wrote Wilcox on his LinkedIn page. “It has been an incredible ride and I could not be prouder of all we accomplished during my time there, culminating in the Apple Silicon transition with the M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max SOCs and systems. I will dearly miss all of my Apple colleagues and friends.”
“I’m pleased to share that I have started a new position as Intel Fellow, Design Engineering Group CTO, Client SoC Architecture at Intel Corporation,” he continued. “I could not be more thrilled to be back working with the amazing teams there to help create groundbreaking SOCs. Great things are ahead!”
MacDailyNews Take: That’s like leaving Tesla to go make Trabants.
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“the company has lost the leader of its M1 development team. Jeff Wilcox originally joined Apple from Intel in 2013”
Nine years at Apple Jeff knows all the ins and outs of the M1 development. Possibly the snails pace at Apple for innovation speed, was a factor.
Forget all the high level departures of Project Titan. Jeff’s departure will leave an immediate need at Apple and the one person that can help Intel rise from the ashes and create competitive chips to challenge Apple.
Fingers crossed Apple has a rapid response…
But has he signed an NDA? Or a non compete thing?
Didn’t some lawsuit in the recent past do away with a large part of the non-compete clauses in CA?
“That’s like leaving Tesla to go make Trabants.”
Hilarious.
Intel was given the opportunity to build Apple’s iPhone SOC. They turned it down because they thought sales wouldn’t justify expense. That’s a mistake Intel began trying to fix in recent years. And today they just attempted to take fixing that mistake up a notch. Nothing wrong with that.
Let me translate all this for you: “Intel paid Jeff Wilcox a large fortune to come back.”
So did Apple. I have no clue why a leader in the chip business would go to Intel after a worldwide success at Apple.
Intel designs chips for a far wider range of applications than Apple. Maybe he felt restricted and decided to go back.
Intel paid Jeff Wilcox a fortune to come back. That is all this is. Nothing more, nothing less. Money talks.
Intel’s cafeteria serves better pizza. End of story.
That’s because pineapple doesn’t belong on a friggin pizza, and if I want to add garlic powder, I should not be impeded. The iOS pizza.
Apple BS, just an Apple-hating pizza shhhht
Intel should pay Apple BS a fortune to go away