A few years ago, Google began hiring Apple engineers responsible for developing a mobile chip that helped give iPhones and other devices a technical edge. But recently, some of those same engineers have left Google’s chip team, in a potential setback to its ambitions to build key ingredients in its own devices.  

Three chip engineers—Manu Gulati, John Bruno and Vinod ...

Johny Srouji, the Apple executive in charge of building chips for the company’s devices, was fed up with Intel.

It was early 2017 and Apple was preparing a new line of iPhones to be released the next year, but the Intel modem for the devices, known as the 7560, wasn’t working properly, according to two people with knowledge of the relationship. The new iPhones would mark the first ...

A longtime Apple hardware engineering leader who oversaw a key wireless component inside its devices has left the company, The Information has learned.

The executive, Rubén Caballero, was until recently in charge of working with suppliers to integrate the modems that connect iPhones wirelessly to the internet. That part of Apple’s business has seen upheaval recently, with Apple ...

A joint venture between Qualcomm and the government of a rural Chinese province to make server chips appears to have stalled. And with it, a symbol of China’s push to boost its homegrown industries could instead spotlight the perils of letting bureaucrats pick technology winners.

Chinese government officials showcased Huaxintong Semiconductor, or HXT, as a shining example of how the ...