Intel can Become Apple’s leading Chip Maker

For Intel, the return of a lost employee could be a real blessing: Jeff Wilcox is hiring again at the chip company after working at Apple for over eight years to get the goodbye to Intel properly. Wilcox led the work on the system architecture of the Mac products at Apple. In this position, he was of course also involved in a leading role in the development of the M1 SoCs, with which the computer company turned completely onto the ARM rail and took Intel out of the running as a previous supplier of processors.

The semiconductor company lost one of the most important buyers of its CPUs. “After eight amazing years, I’ve decided to leave Apple and take a new chance. It was an incredible time, and I couldn’t be more proud of everything we achieved during my time there. The culmination of my transition to Apple Silicon with the M1, M1 Pro, and M1 Max SOCs and systems “, explained Wilcox.

x86 SoCs coming soon

In view of this statement, it should have surprised some that shortly afterward he announced that he wanted to take a leading position in SoC development at Intel in the future. However, Wilcox was already working for the semiconductor company before joining Apple. Now, the experience he gained at Apple should help Intel move a little further in this segment.

A fairly similar concept is to be followed. Intel also wants to offer SoCs for notebooks and other compact systems, which of course are based on x86 designs with regard to the CPU cores. “I’m excited to announce that I have started a new role as Intel Fellow, Design Engineering Group CTO, Client SoC Architecture at Intel Corporation. I couldn’t be more excited to work with the great teams there again to work on the To help develop breakthrough SOCs. Big things are ahead! “Wilcox said.