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Microsoft Hires Former Apple Chip Semiconductor and Designer
Microsoft has recruited Mike Filippo, a semiconductor designer who formerly worked as a chip architect at Apple
Bloomberg reports that Microsoft has recruited Mike Filippo, a semiconductor designer who formerly worked as a chip architect at Apple. Microsoft intends to build on-chip designs for the servers that power its cloud computing services, and Filippo will be working on processors for Azure servers at Microsoft.
Mike Filippo Moves to Microsoft
Filippo joined Apple in 2019 following a decade of semiconductor design at Arm, where he was credited with pioneering some of the basic technologies used in phones and other gadgets. Filippo was in charge of the development of various Arm processors, including the Cortex-A76, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A57, and forthcoming 7nm+ and 5nm chips.
Filippo formerly worked at AMD and Intel, and he was a key member of Apple’s semiconductor team. In recent weeks, Apple has lost several of its semiconductor recruits. Meanwhile, Jeff Wilcox, the former Director of Mac System Architecture, left Apple in December and has subsequently joined Intel, where he will work on Intel’s new SoCs.
