Apple engineer who designed SOC M1 goes to Intel to create innovative SOCs

Intel has just acquired a new engineer, who was behind the creation of Apple’s M1 SOC that was used in the new Macs, who is now preparing innovative SOCs for the blue team.

Former Apple engineer and director of Mac systems architecture, Jeff Wilson, has announced on his LinkedIn profile that he has joined Intel and will work with Intel’s engineering teams on creating next-generation SOCs.

A SOC, also known as System-on-chip, is a silicon that has a CPU, GPU, AI, and other surprises on the same chip. With Intel opting for a more hybrid architectural approach, designing a SOC is a perfect fit for the blue team that will leverage its next-generation process and new technologies like FORVEROS and EMIB to build the next client and server computing solutions.

Creator of Apple’s M1, M1 Pro and M1 Max SOC

It’s been an incredible journey and I couldn’t be more proud of everything we’ve accomplished during my time at Apple, culminating in the development of the M1 SOC, M1 Pro and M1 Max.

I am pleased to share that I have started a new position as Intel Fellow, Design Engineering Group CTO, Client SoC Architecture at Intel Corporation. I couldn’t be more excited to be working with the amazing teams there, to help create innovative SOCs. Great things are yet to come!

Jeff Wilson, CTO of Intel’s Design Engineering Group, Client SOC Architecture.

Prior to Apple, Jeff had worked at Intel as a Principal Engineer on PC Chips from 2010-2013 and as a Principal Architect at NVIDIA from 2007-2008. While we don’t know what Jeff will be working on at Intel, it’s worth noting that not too long ago, renowned and legendary chip architect Jim Keller also joined Intel as senior vice president of silicon engineering. Between 2018-2020 Jim had also worked at Apple and moved to AMD to work on their Zen architecture. With several top-tier engineers, Intel definitely has a lot of upside for consumers in the years to come.

Source: PCMAG