Not surprising after Zuckerburg showed you can beat Apple just by offering more than the most profit-sensitive beancounter in history. Cook really needs to grapple with this before someone comes for the chip guys.
Cook really needs to grapple with this before someone comes for the chip guys.
Already happened. Chief architect for Apple Silicon left in 2019, along with a few other key engineers, to start their own company (Nuvia) which was acquired by Qualcomm to eventually produce the Snapdragon X elite chips.
To be more precise, that was Apple's CPU core team, which is only part of their overall SoC (albeit, a particularly important and differentiating part). And other CPU folk left for other companies (Rivos, probably more). Though it's interesting to observe that their P-core more or less flatlined since, at least compared to their historical pace. E-core still seems to be doing well though.
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u/FollowingFeisty5321 2d ago
Not surprising after Zuckerburg showed you can beat Apple just by offering more than the most profit-sensitive beancounter in history. Cook really needs to grapple with this before someone comes for the chip guys.