One of Apple’s senior employees, Jeff Wilcox, has left the firm and returned to Intel Inc. He was Apple’s director of Mac system architecture at the time, and he built a System on a Chip (SoC) that freed Apple from Intel’s CPUs. And it was odd that he was now working for a competitor.
Jeff Wilcox is joining Intel after eight years at Apple building desktop and laptop devices. Wilcox had worked at Intel before joining Apple. On its LinkedIn page, Wilcox confirmed the change.
He said: “After an amazing eight years I have decided to leave Apple and pursue another opportunity. 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.”
Jeff Wilcox shared that: “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. I could not be more thrilled to be back working with the amazing teams there to help create groundbreaking SOCs. Great things are ahead!”
The Apple M1 represents a watershed moment in Apple’s history. This chip improves both performance and energy efficiency significantly. Apple has dropped Intel CPUs from its laptops and Macs for the first time with the M1.
Wilcox has been rehired by Intel to create capable SoCs based on the x86 architecture. Multiple components like as the CPU, GPU, AI, RAM, and, in some cases, storage are all housed in these tiny powerhouses. Single Board Computers (SBCs), such as the Raspberry Pi, typically contain them. The biggest disadvantage is that a SoC’s individual components cannot be modified.
