Posted on Thursday, June 27 2019 @ 17:36 CEST by Thomas De Maesschalck
The lead designer of various ARM cores, including the Cortex-A76, is now working for Apple. The LinkedIn page of Mike Filippo reveals he left ARM in May to take up a chip architect position at Apple.
The company hired Mike Filippo in May for a chip architect position, according to his LinkedIn profile. At ARM, Filippo was a lead engineer behind chip designs that power the vast majority of the world’s smartphones and tablets and was leading a new push into parts for computers. ARM, owned by SoftBank Group Corp., designs microprocessors and licenses technology that is fundamental to the chip development efforts of Apple, Samsung Electronics Co., Qualcomm Inc. and Huawei Technologies Co.
Via: Bloomberg
