Lead developer Apple’s chip division leaves for Intel to work on socs

Jeff Wilcox, former director of Apple’s Mac System Architecture division, joins Intel to develop socs. The move to Intel is remarkable since Wilcox at Apple was responsible for the M1 chips, which means that the company uses fewer Intel CPUs.

Wilcox will be an Intel Fellow and CTO of the Design Engineering Group, where he will focus on client-socs architecture, he writes on LinkedIn. Two weeks earlier, he indicated on the social medium that he was leaving Apple, where he worked for eight years.

At Apple, he was responsible for, among other things, the development of the M1 socs that Apple now uses for MacBooks, iMacs and the iPad Pro, which means that the company uses fewer Intel CPUs. According to The Register, he also worked here on the T2 security chips that Apple uses for encrypted data and Touch ID.

Intel is not a new company for Wilcox; he has worked for the company several times in the past, Tom’s Hardware writes. At the beginning of the last decade, for example, he worked as a power management architect on Intel’s Atom processors. In total, he spent twelve years at Intel and he also worked for Nvidia for a year and a half.