Intel hires chief architect of Xbox SoCs

Posted on Friday, June 14 2019 @ 12:21 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
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OnMSFT reports Intel snatched Microsoft's John Sell, the chief architect of the SoC used in the Xbox One, Scorpio and Project Scarlett. Sell worked 14 years at Microsoft and will now work in Intel's chip security unit:
Sell will only be working tangentially on projects related to his previous project portfolio at Microsoft in that he will be tasked with helping Intel’s security wing with coming up with solutions to breaches and major exploits such as the recent Spectre and Meltdown fiascos.


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