A fresh start in Apple’s semiconductor team. Mike Filippo is going to design chips at Microsoft.
Brain drain is a very real problem for a number of companies, especially the tech giants. While it is very common for one company to hire an employee from another company, some corporations have a hard time retaining their best employees. Apple has had a lot of trouble in this area lately. New example today.
New start in Apple’s semiconductor team
For the Cupertino company to carry out its Apple Silicon project, it must have in its ranks a team of talented designers and engineers to design its own electronic chips. Recently, one of the executive engineers of the Apple brand had left the company to go to work at Intel and today we must add, it seems, an important new start.
Mike Filippo is going to design chips at Microsoft
If we are to believe a Bloomberg report quoting a source familiar with the matter, it seems that the Cupertino company has just lost an important new member of its team dedicated to semiconductors, and this time to Microsoft. The report claims that semiconductor designer Mike Filippo has left Apple to join the Redmond firm where he will help design chips that are expected to power Azure cloud-computing services.
Microsoft currently faces stiff competition in the cloud market, especially from Google and Amazon. It is therefore understandable that the American giant is always seeking to expand its offer, and this notably involves creating in-house components that will help to differentiate itself from the competition. Mike Filippo arrived at Apple in 2019 as a chip architect.
Before that, he had worked for ARM as a designer for a long time. Mike Filippo has also notably worked for Intel and AMD. Once again, it is difficult to know how much the departure of this employee will affect the great Apple Silicon project. Only time can tell us. In any case, let’s hope that the Cupertino company has some cards up its sleeve.