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Apple Hires Lead Arm Chip Designer

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Aaron Tilley
· · Source: The Information

Even as Apple plays up its shift to services, the company is  massively expanding its chipmaking capabilities under senior vice president Johny Srouji. The latest evidence of this is the recent hiring of veteran processor designer, Mike Filippo. Mr. Filippo comes to Apple from SoftBank-owned Arm, where he led the creation of many high-end processors for phones and data center computers. Before...

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